Ace Steel chats his longtime friend, CM Punk.
It is coming up on a full year since CM Punk returned to WWE at Survivor Series. He’s currently engaged in a feud with Drew McIntyre and their match tally is 1-1.
Punk’s time back in WWE was discussed by his longtime friend, Ace Steel. Steel was welcomed onto the Huge Pop podcast and stated that Punk’s return to wrestling was always supposed to be what it currently is. He referred to Punk helping out talents at the Performance Center and not being separated from other wrestlers in the locker room.
(CM) Punk is just loving all of it. When he comes down to visit me and he says, ‘The kids ask me to come down to the Performance Center,’ I said, ‘I know what you’re doing. I see you all the time. Go have fun.’ This is what his return to wrestling was supposed to be. This is what it was supposed to be. Him to walk in, he’s changing in the locker room. He doesn’t want an extra locker room, he doesn’t want to sit apart from everybody. He wants to be in the mix and with the people and answering questions when they’re asked of him. It’s just great for him. It’s just opened him back up to — because I said this before when he was out of wrestling and I would get asked on a podcast and like, he loves wrestling. He loved wrestling more when we were traveling the roads, pumping it along, making 40, 50 bucks or whatever it is. Making the long trips because that was it, that was the grassroots of it. Obviously, there’s a lot more money on the line but when it becomes — the hardest part of this business is when it becomes a business for you and you gotta watch it because you’ll lose all the love and you know this. I’m preaching to the choir. You could end up hating a lot of the things that — it becomes a job. So you gotta watch it. If you can tweak it, so it’s not quite such a job.
The latest on the Punk-McIntyre front is Punk had to be stretchered out of the arena following an attack. The next Premium Live Event on the docket for WWE is Bad Blood on October 5th.
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