CM Punk Confused By Triple H’s WWE Creative Comments
CM Punk has been left surprised by comments made by Triple H regarding a creative disagreement following Punk’s return to the company.
CM Punk stunned the world when he returned to WWE in late 2023, almost ten years after walking out of the company. Punk has been open about how fed up he was with almost everything to do with WWE back then, but time has been proven to be something of a healer.
Triple H and CM Punk’s relationship has been tumultuous over the years, to say the least, but the WWE COO recently explained how things had changed between them as he detailed an incident where Punk wasn’t thrilled about his creative in his current run in the company:
We’ve had a couple of moments since his return, there was one moment where he’d return and they told him something creatively and they told me, ‘He does not like this.’ I was like, ‘Okay, I’ll talk to him.’ Went and talked to him. ‘What’s going on?’ I told him the creative and he was like, ‘That’s good, whatever.’
I was like, ‘I know you don’t like it. Everybody’s told me. Let’s be open.’ He complained about what it was and I said, ‘Let’s go sit and talk about it and come up with something good.’ That sort of changed, it was like a paradigm shift for us relationship-wise, and now, it’s a funny thing for me to say, sitting down and being collaborative with CM Punk is one of my favorite things in TV because he shares a very similar view at the end of the day of the business as I do.
But CM Punk doesn’t know what Triple H is talking about.
CM Punk Had No Faith In Triple H
Speaking on the Masked Man Show, CM Punk couldn’t point to the incident in question and thinks that’s a case of his relationship with Triple H drastically improving this time around:
I’m more surprised because I actually don’t know what specific thing he’s talking about. Since I’ve been back, I don’t necessarily think I’ve ever really reacted in a jarring negative way that I would have back in 2011 or 2013.
Our relationship, for a heartbeat, I thought he was talking about, I remember very distinctly because it was in Anaheim, California. This was full on being hurt, sick, and injured. This was 2013. I needed to be taken off the hamster wheel and nobody is going to do that, they were just going to run me until I die. I remember yelling at writers and then Triple H coming up to me and being like, ‘You’re yelling at all the writers, what’s wrong?’ And me just being like, ‘Nothing, everything is fine.’
That was our relationship before. I was like, ‘Why am I going to share with you what’s wrong when…..’ It was a real weird dynamic shift because I went from being an underneath guy with him being in the main event full-time talent, and then all of a sudden he’s my boss.
It was just weird. I didn’t have any trust in him to do his job. He was going to spit water in the air and crotch chop me. That was our relationship back then. Now, me not really recognizing what story that is goes to show you, he probably walked up to me, ‘Hey, somebody said you didn’t like the creative,’ and I probably just went, ‘Yeah, this, that, what if we did it this way.’ ‘Can we still say this?’ ‘Yeah, great.’ That’s the way it is now. Like, goddamnit, that’s the f*cking way it should’ve been back then.
I’m not pointing the finger just at him. I’m very much saying I was hard to deal with. I will tell you when something is bad.
CM Punk was screwed at WrestleMania 41 by Paul Heyman as the weaselly Wise Man found a new meal ticket to hitch his wagon to.