WWE Star Ready To Fight CM Punk Backstage

One WWE star was ready to drag the bad side of CM Punk out and take him on backstage.

CM Punk was fired by AEW for a backstage altercation with Jack Perry at All In London in 2023. That was not Punk’s first backstage issue in the company, as one year earlier, he had infamously ended up in a fight with The Young Bucks after All Out. Punk had ranted at the post-show press conference and urged anyone with a problem to confront him, which then is exactly what happened.

So when CM Punk made his shock return to WWE, almost ten years after walking out of that company, many wondered exactly what version of Punk they were getting. And one WWE star was spoiling for a fight.

CM Punk Too Nice For Grayson Waller

Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, loudmouth Australian Grayson Waller explained why he was ready to take CM Punk on backstage and admits he’s been left a little disappointed at the version of Punk now gracing the WWE locker room:

I remember I took a Superkick from Jey Uso, and it was the day that Punk left his last job. I took a Superkick, and I put a photo online of me icing my jaw with a Pepsi can, which was just like, sometimes I like to have fun online and cause some chaos. So when he was coming over here, I was like, This is gonna be fun. What Punk are we gonna get?

And then we’ve got this real soft Punk. So I want to find out who the real Punk is. He’s really helpful backstage, and he’s super nice and all this. I’m either gonna be really disappointed that he’s softened, and this is the new Punk, and he’s just a really nice guy now, or the real Punk is hiding in there, and I want to be the one to bring it out.

That’s what I want to do. I guess I was ready to fight him backstage. I thought that’s what we were gonna do. I was like this is gonna be sick, like he’s gonna start causing chaos, like he’s gonna beat up little flops backstage again, I’m in, dude. But now he’s just a really nice guy and very helpful to everyone, helps everyone at NXT and does all this.

That’s not the Punk that I love. I want to bring it back out, so I’m gonna get that opportunity. I’ve told him to his face, I’m like, there’s gonna be a day where I’m gonna stand across from you with a microphone, and I’m gonna tell you exactly what I think about you, and I want you to tell me exactly what you think about me.

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