WWE’s Drew McIntyre Reveals What CM Punk Really Hates About Him
Drew McIntyre believes there is a specific reason why CM Punk has a problem with him.
The second WWE Premium Live Event match between Drew McIntyre and CM Punk occurred this past Saturday at Bash In Berlin. The two former WWE Champions had a brutal Strap Match that Punk won decisively when he hit his Go To Sleep finisher five times, which led to Punk touching the four turnbuckles in a row to win the match.
That means the Punk-McIntyre match is now tied 1-1 since McIntyre beat Punk at SummerSlam (due to the questionable refereeing of Seth “Freakin” Rollins) earlier in August.
While speaking to Sam Roberts of Notsam Wrestling at Fanatics Fest NYC after WWE SummerSlam, McIntyre says his issues with Punk are because Punk negatively impacted his life in the past.
“Yeah, if I take myself out of my own shoes, step back. Even in my own shoes, if you told me that prior to November, I would say there’s no way he’s ever gonna be back in WWE, never mind him and I in a match together, and then also having the feelings that I have for him, from my first run in the company, growing up around him and things I’ve not touched upon, but he negatively affected my career and life in certain ways when I was a kid, and I remember that, and it’s well documented, he was a piece of crap and is a piece of crap especially back then.”
“So yeah, I could never have imagined it happening, and I also probably knew I’m gonna rough him up the first chance I get, and I did that, and his little tricep fell off the bone [laughs], so if he wants to keep coming after SummerSlam, I mean, I’m all for it.”
“He said he won’t stop, and he’ll make sure that I’ll never be World Champion, and I know that’s true, until he is officially out of WWE, so we’re gonna go until one of us is not in the company anymore, at least not on the same brand, it feels like, because I want to be world champ and he’s prevented it multiple times. So we’re just gonna have to, I don’t know, one way or the other, exile the other out the company.”
Drew McIntyre Claims He Has Become “More Punk Than CM Punk”
As he continued, Drew McIntyre said that he was okay with the feud continuing as long as the fans were into it while also stating that Punk hates him so much because Drew reminds Punk of what Punk used to stand for.
“I mean, in the end, it’s what the fans enjoy and what they have that connection with, so I’m cool with that. But I’d rather that I took him and he was out the company already, and I was world champion [laughs]. But yeah, I mean, people are entertained by it, I’m fine kicking his arse constantly. I hate his stupid face. I hate everything about him. I hate that he’s poisoned people’s minds to believe that he’s this messiah.”
“I said nostalgia’s a hell of a thing. We’re still living in the Punk nostalgia era. But seeing him up here [at Fanatics Fest NYC], in his little suit, toeing the line, in his little suit, giving crappy little answers, come on. Look at the way he’s evolved or devolved. He was the punk, he was the anti-superstar, he said whatever he wanted back in the day, and I admired that part of him, as much I didn’t like him.”
“Now, he toes the company line, he kisses the company arse, tries to justify that big contract, when I, who tried to be more of a Cena-type when I was younger and do everything I possibly could, even smile when I didn’t want to smile and I just wanted to say, ‘Get lost, go screw yourself,’ and I’ve started saying, ‘Go screw yourself, you deserve it now.’ Now I have become more Punk than CM Punk, and he hates that.”
After his WWE Bash in Berlin victory, Punk claimed that he was moving on from the McIntyre rivalry. However, those comments may have been in character because there have been previous reports about how the CM Punk-Drew McIntyre rivalry will lead to a Hell in a Cell Match at WWE Bad Blood on October 5th in Atlanta.