Drew McIntyre and CM Punk were involved in one of the most talked about rivalries of 2024, and the longer the feud went on the more heated it got.
During a promo back in March of 2024, Drew McIntyre reminded everyone that he’s “The Chosen One” which led to CM Punk referencing Vince McMahon when he asked, “Who chose you? What was his name? You got the balls to say you’re The Chosen One? What paragon of good virtue chose you?”
McIntyre stayed quiet after CM Punk pressed him for an answer, but the former WWE Champion recently revealed what he wanted to say during an interview with Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes.
“What’s going through my mind is: “The same person that fired you on your wedding day.” But I’m a professional. I think by that point, people started seeing what I was capable of on the microphone like it was a new thing. If you watched my stuff outside of WWE, you know when I’m comfortable and the reins are taken off me. I don’t care who it is, I can go toe to toe with anyone. Even Punk.”
“If you watch the first interview we had, the look in his eyes throughout the promo and how much it changed, you realise this is not the same kid that was an a**e so many years ago. He was ready that night, I was ready that night and we went back and forth and back and forth, just hitting each other with these lines.”
“And again, this is not something that’s written on a piece of paper like you say this and I’ll say that. This is just two guys going for it, two guys that have got some banter, and two guys that genuinely don’t like each other in a place as hot as Chicago where Punk’s from.”
“Then that one line, once we’d finally go back and forth so much, it was a choice for me to make. Do I go back and then we see where we end up? Or do I bite my tongue and say OK, this round belongs to you. I’ll be a professional. I’ll do it for the company as well as the de facto babyface, even though I’m really the real babyface of the situation. So I let him have it. For the company, not for him.”
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