Seth Rollins Explains Issues With CM Punk – Rollins was a guest on the SI Media Podcast with Jimmy Traina. The pair discussed CM Punk’s return to WWE and Rollins’ publicized reaction to that moment. Rollins has made no bones about his feelings on Punk, referring to him as a cancer at one point.
Traina prefaced his question by noting that he didn’t want to insult anyone’s intelligence by asking if it was real or fake, but asked Rollins to describe his feelings in the moment.
“Everyone knows how I feel about CM Punk. I’ve not made it any more transparent over the last few years. Nothing has changed in that regard,” Rollins explained. “And in that moment, I was extremely emotional and you got a lot of real, raw emotion from me. I don’t usually get that worked up about much, but you caught me off guard and there was a lot of real emotion there. So, that’s probably as much as I can say on that without going too far.”
“You said a lot of bad words,” Traina replied.
“I did. I did. And I regret that part of it. Because I do take my responsibility as a role model for our younger audience pretty seriously,” Seth Rollins noted. “So that part of it, I do have regrets over it. I wish I would have handled myself with a little bit more composure. But like I said, I can’t take it back. I can apologize to our younger audience and their families if I offended anybody but it was what it was, a moment in time.”
Seth Rollins says he did not run into Punk backstage that night. He had his wife, Becky Lynch, and some other people there to keep him in check and talk him down. Rollins said Lynch is good at reading him and knowing how to level him out when he needs it.
“Kudos to her. She made sure I didn’t get in any trouble,” he added. “But yeah, there were enough people who knew that I would be upset in the moment and take care of me and make sure it didn’t get too chaotic.”
When asked what his issues with CM Punk are, Rollins didn’t sugarcoat his response.
“I mean, a lot of it’s personal, a lot of it’s stuff that I don’t really want to get into,” Seth Rollins began. “But for the most part, I just think he’s been really selfish when it comes to his perspective on the industry. I think he’s been extremely self-serving, has played the martyr role to a tee, and has for someone who, when I met the guy, and look, I got a lot of good things to say about parts of my relationship with him.
“He helped me in places when he didn’t have to; whether that was for his own good or not, I’m not entirely sure, but regardless, it helped me get where I needed to go and do the things I needed to do. And for a guy who, when I met him, kind of made it seem like he was all about giving back to the business. He really turned into a pretty selfish guy and really wanted to take more from the industry.
“And look, he said some really bad things about me. Talked down about me for years and the company for years. And I’m talking some really bad stuff, called me like a bootlicker and crap like that. And like, you don’t know me. You don’t know what I stand for. I’m a loyal person. And I just felt pretty insulted by a lot of the way he treated me, treated the place that I worked for, treated friends that I worked with.
“I don’t need to get into any of the stuff with Colt Cabana if you want to go and look at that kind of stuff that’s out there. But yeah, I mean, just the way he treated people, the way I felt like he was only looking out for himself. And in the way he talked down about me and my friends and the people who are here putting the hard work in at WWE, trying to make this thing as good as we possibly could because we love the industry.
“We truly love it. Not just what it can do for us, but we actually love it, want to get back to it, and want to make it the best it can possibly be. And I always just felt like he was a fraud in that sense, or at least turned into one at some point in the last decade. And so yeah, that’s that’s the long of it. It’s a deep-rooted, I wouldn’t call it a hatred, but there’s a certain animosity there. No doubt about it.”
Seth Rollins Explains Issues With CM Punk
