Former six times World Champion in WWE CM Punk who currently works as an Elite in the All Elite Wrestling recently talked about the bullies and pressures in professional wrestling. He also talked about his straight edge persona and how some people felt threatened because of it.
It took quite a while for CM Punk to become famous and when he did become famous among the professional wrestling fans he was on top of everyone. He was the biggest competition of John Cena back in his prime time. But it was not easy for him to get to this position. He worked as jobber, she even worked as an extra during the WrestleMania 22 entrance of John Cena.
CM Punk Talks Bullies And Pressures In Professional Wrestling
After he joined the main roster of the WWE 2006, it was quite clear that this talented individual has a great future in WWE. As soon as he turned heel in 2009 he started to shine even more. When he started his feud with John Cena in 2011, the fanbase got separated in two different ways. It was quite clear how famous became in a very short amount of time.
After cutting the pipebomb promo, he became even more famous among the fans. He was a serious competition to John Cena back in the time after cutting that promo. But he parted ways with the WWE after 2014 Royal Rumble pay per view event. He did not return to the world of professional wrestling till 2021 report finally making a grand return holding the hands of newly founded professional wrestling promotion AEW.
CM Punk who currently works as an Elite in the All Elite Wrestling recently spoke to Dropping Character podcast where he talked about the bullies and pressures in professional wrestling. He said;
“There’s a lot of bullies in professional wrestling and a lot of it comes down to people being taught by the previous generation to hold onto your spot. ‘Somebody’s gonna take your spot, the young guys are coming up.
“They’re gonna take your spot.’ So me coming in, I was a threat to a lot of guys and me being straight-edge, not drinking, not doing drugs, I was a threat to other guys. They didn’t get that. They would try to bully me into — like weird peer pressure like, ‘Have a beer!’ I’m like, ‘I don’t drink.’ ‘Well why? Why don’t you?’ Just weird stuff that grown ass men should not be participating in. But I got thick skin. What can I say?
“And a lot of it translates to people — you get punished in their own special way. I don’t know if that stuff goes on anymore. It’s a different company [WWE] from what people tell me but yeah, the pro wrestling culture definitely a lot of the time sucked and you know, lesser people could break, quit or whatever. I just always kind of looked at it like, ‘Well, if I get fired, I get fired. I have a back-up plan and that is just to go back seamlessly into the life I had.’ I could always do that.”
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