The much anticipated CM Punk interview with ESPN has been released.
In the interview, Punk tells his side of the story regarding The Elite, says he apologized to Tony Khan and more.
Below are some comments from Punk, taken from the full ESPN interview.
“The first thing I said to Tony when I sat down with him and spoke to him after it was, ‘Man, I’m really sorry I put you in that position. I apologize for the scrum. But when you’ve watched that scrum, you’re looking at a very, very frustrated guy who had told people. That’s not the first time he heard all that. It’s not the first time lawyers were told all that. And I was just looking for something to be done and nothing got done. So, if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself. And I just didn’t approach it in the right manner, but tension was high. I was very, very pissed. I pretty much knew that I had just injured myself again. I was hurt, and I was disappointed. Yeah, it’s very easy for me to say I regret that and I handled it the wrong way, 100%.”
“Now we all got to roll in the f—ing mud, and that never should have happened and has never been course-corrected. So, I understand people want to say that, ‘Oh, man, Punk is a dick.’ Well yeah, because I’m defending myself and I will always defend myself. I’m open to have a full-blown f—ing sit-down powwow discussion with everybody about it. But it hasn’t happened yet, and it’s not because of my lack of trying.”
Punk is set to return to AEW on Saturday night’s premiere episode of Collision, which will take place from the United Center in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
Punk will team up with AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR against ROH World Television Champion Samoa Joe and Bullet Club members Jay White and Juice Robinson, in the main event.
AEW Collision will air every Saturday night live on TNT, beginning at 8:00 pm ET.