Professional wrestling certainly isn’t ballet, and wrestlers need to put in work outside of the ring in order to maintain their bodies so they can keep going.
CM Punk is certainly no stranger to wear and tear on his body, and during a recent appearance on Cody and Jennifer Decker’s Swing and Mrs. podcast he noted that throughout his WWE career he would ice his knees backstage.
The former WWE Champion then went on to say that he would get made fun of and bullied for icing his knees.
“It’s a bully culture. I remember somebody — every time I would ice my elbow, because I constantly had a chronically bad elbow. And I would ice my knees and that was more of a maintenance thing. After a while I did get a surgery on my knee. But they would always laugh and make fun of me.”
“And they would look and point and say, ‘Oh, look, it’s DDP!’ And I’d be like, ‘Why are we making fun of somebody for icing?’ It was always the stupidest stuff. The bullies backstage, I would always think like — is that a weakness, really? And look at billion dollar NBA teams that are mandatory icing guys after games and stuff like that. But like, the macho bulls**t. I’m not a man because I’m icing my knees? Okay, cool.”
Punk also opened up about which current WWE Superstars he would consider returning to the ring to face, and you can get more on that here.
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— Swings & Mrs. (@SwingsAndMrs) March 17, 2020
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