In the summer of 2011, CM Punk aired his grievances with WWE when he cut his big pipebomb promo. The promo has since become infamous and his line about being a Paul Heyman guy took on a life of its on.
While talking about the infamous promo on the ALL THE SMOKE Unplugged podcast, CM Punk revealed that at the time Vince McMahon didn’t want Paul Heyman mentioned on WWE programming.
“I did not dwell on it. I did not have days or weeks to think about it. I literally walked out there. I was out the door mentally. I was so checked out. And then for him [Vince McMahon] to say, ‘I want you to air your grievances,’ and for me to just go, ‘No, you don’t. You don’t want that.’
Because I know if I wrote that all down or explained what I was going to say, he’d be like, ‘No, you can’t say that. You can’t mention Paul backstage.’ If you mentioned Paul Heyman in a conversation, he would spit on the ground—he did not want you mentioning it. It didn’t make any sense to him.
So yeah, that’s the line. I try not to leap over it—I just kind of step over it. Then you toe it, and you go back and forth, and you craft that. And it didn’t take long. It literally just spilled out, almost freestyle. Well, a lot of it was. One of the things is when I waved at the camera and said, ‘Oh, I’m breaking the fourth wall,’ it’s because I lost my train of thought. The adrenaline hit me at that moment.”
CM Punk will be main eventing WrestleMania for the second year in a row this weekend as he’s set to defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Roman Reigns. It’s been confirmed that Punk vs. Reigns will main event night 2 of the big event.
Stay tuned for updates.