In the summer of 2011 CM Punk was the most talked about wrestler in WWE at the time, and he faced off against John Cena in the main event of SummerSlam to determine who would be the Undisputed WWE Champion. It was Punk who picked up the victory, but his celebration was short-lived as Kevin Nash made his surprise return then powerbombed Punk which allowed Alberto Del Rio to cash in Money in the Bank and win the WWE Championship.
The next night on Raw, CM Punk ripped into Nash when he cut a promo where he said that he had been texting with his sister and she joked that she thought Kevin Nash was dead. Nash recalled what the segment was like from his point of view on his Kliq This podcast and he shared some insight into what was going through his head.
“I swear to you I thought I was one and done. They asked me to come out, stick him, and be gone. So the next show this is what he does the laugh out loud ‘My sister’s just text me laugh out loud. You know, I thought he was dead.’ I have no verbiage, I’m told not to say anything. So as soon as he says that, I’m thinking to myself okay, I cost you the world title, and you come down and f*cking you come through the f*cking curtain, but you stand f*cking 250 feet away from me? Like you don’t come down and attack me, you verbally attacked me. I just cost you the f*cking world title.”
“I’m thinking of going to myself, if me and Paul didn’t have the relationship that we had, and I know that Paul was instrumental in bringing me back. And it’s always nice to f*cking, I don’t care who you are, what you’re doing, it’s always nice to put the pinstripes on. It’s always nice to be a Yank. So I say to myself, don’t do it because I think to myself like, what do I say? You know what? I’m scripted not to say anything. But you know what? I really don’t care. I mean, I really don’t care and start walking out of the ring. Because you know what? If it was me, I would have come down here because you cost me the world title, but obviously, you’re a bitch.”
“I said, so if this was real life, I’d be trading your ass for cigarettes in prison. And then just walk up there and say, when I get up here, I said I’m gonna smack you in the face as hard as I can. So know that. I mean, granted, I mean, my old ass is gonna take some time clickety click clickety click you know the old f*ucking knees and everything else. But when I get up there I’m going to smack in the f*cking [face]. So either you f*cking apologise to Mr. Nash or I’m gonna smack you in the f*cking mouth, or we can go, but I don’t think any of the last two are going to work out for you very well.”
The former WWE Champion also explained why he decided to ultimately just go along with what was happening instead of potentially ruining his relationship with WWE.
“And I thought to myself like after all these years in the business that’s exactly what you should do is be completely unprofessional. Be a f*cking douchebag, never go in the Hall of Fame because you f*cking went into business for yourself. I’m just like, f*ck him it’s just f*cking pro wrestling.”
