CM Punk made his big return to WWE last month at the Survivor Series premium live event, but it doesn’t seem like everyone was happy to see him. Video footage of Seth Rollins cursing at Punk during his return started making the rounds on social media, and it was also later reported that Rollins was looking for CM Punk backstage.
Seth Rollins recently discussed his views on CM Punk while speaking with Jimmy Traina on the SI Media podcast, and he explained why he feels a deep rooted animosity towards the Best in the World.
“A lot of it is personal. A lot of it is stuff I don’t really want to get into. For the most part, I just think he’s been really selfish when it comes to his perspective on the industry. I think he’s been extremely self-serving, has played the martyr role to a tee and has, for someone who, when I met the guy, and look, I have a lot of good things to say about parts of my relationship with him. He helped me in places when he didn’t have to, whether that was for his own good or not, I’m not entirely sure. Regardless, it helped me get where I needed to go and do the things I needed to do. For a guy who, when I met him, made it seem like he was all about giving back to the business, he really turned into a pretty selfish guy and wanting to take more from the industry.
Look, he said some really bad things about me. Talked down about me for years, and the company, for years. I’m talking some really bad stuff. Called me a bootlicker and stuff like that. You don’t know me. You don’t know what I stand for. I’m a loyal person, and I felt pretty insulted by a lot of the ways he treated me, treated the place I work for, treated friends that I worked with.
I don’t need to get into any of the stuff with Colt Cabana if you want to look at that kind of stuff, that’s out there. Just the way he treated people. The way I felt like he’s only looking out for himself, and then the way he talked about me and my friends and the people who are here putting the hard work in at WWE, trying to make this thing as good as we possibly can because we love the industry, truly love it, not just what it can do for us, we actually love it and want to give back to it and make it the best it could possibly be. I also felt like he’s a fraud in that sense, or at least turned into one at some point in the last decade. That’s the long of it. It’s a deep-rooted, I wouldn’t call it hatred, but there’s animosity there.”
Despite their issues Seth Rollins also stated that he’s willing to try and mend fences so he and Punk can do business. One way or another it will be interesting to see what happens when Rollins and Punk finally cross paths on WWE programming.
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