CM Punk has been a very hot topic as of late because the former WWE Champion finally returned to wrestling after 7 years away when he joined AEW last month. Punk certainly had some memorable moments during his WWE run, and one of the things that fans still talk about frequently is Punk’s infamous pipe bomb promo.
During an appearance on the Dropping Character podcast CM Punk opened up about the promo, and he noted that Vince McMahon told him specifically not to mention Kevin Dunn.
When I showed up that day, he . ‘Sure I am. Sure I am, guy’, and he’s like, ‘Write some stuff down and let me approve it’ and I’m not gonna name names but I got with some people who were writers and I started talking about things that I wanted to say and they said, ‘Oh he’s not approving any of this. He’s not gonna want you to mention Brock’ because Brock Lesnar was gone and they had a tumultuous relationship with lawsuits and stuff that I would soon experience myself. You know, so, in my mind, what I did was I immediately just shut down and I went with the flow and I let them write stuff down and hand to Vince and Vince went, ‘Okay, this looks good.’ He gave a couple of notes, some of which I used. One was don’t mention Kevin Dunn who is the guy in the production truck, don’t mention somebody else. ‘Okay’, and then I went out and said whatever the f*ck I wanted.
CM Punk also noted that he wore a “Stone Cold” Steve Austin shirt during the promo because he was on his way out of the company, so they stopped making his merchandise.
“And people ask me, they’re like, ‘Why were you wearing a Stone Cold shirt?’ I was wearing a Stone Cold shirt because I was leaving and the company stopped producing CM Punk shirts. When I went to the crate to grab a shirt, they did not have any and I grabbed the first shirt I saw and I went, ‘Steve, cool’, put it on. I grabbed it because it was a shirt that was there and they didn’t have any CM Punk shirts, you know? But, I’ve been very good my career at dropping little Easter eggs here and there and stuff like that so I was just like, ‘This is gonna be great. This is gonna be a thing that people latch onto and they’re gonna be like what the f*ck?’ You know, and it was.”
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