CM Punk On Pat McAfee: You Can’t Run Your Mouth About Ticket Sales When You’ve Never Sold A Ticket

CM Punk responds to Pat McAfee.

Pat McAfee was inserted into WrestleMania 42 on the April 3 episode of SmackDown when he attacked Cody Rhodes and was revealed as the mystery caller for Randy Orton.

In his subsequent promo, McAfee addressed poor ticket sales for WrestleMania, saying that the business sucks because Cody is the leader. On the following episode of Raw, CM Punk addressed McAfee, telling him he knows nothing about selling tickets and that ticket prices should be lowered.

Speaking to Matt Barnes on All The Smoke, Punk was asked about McAfee’s involvement in wrestling.

“Wrestling has always, sometimes to a fault, embraced people that we believe can get eyeballs on a product. Eyeballs on a product and people actually investing and buying tickets are two wildly different things. Pat was a wrestling fan who became famous outside of the bubble and was afforded an opportunity to be invited in. Somewhere along the line, he forgot that he was a tourist. To me, that can easily be rescinded. Pat is great at what he does. Pat is not great at what we do. Cody is going to handle it. Poor Cody has to deal with this guy. When he disrespects the business and he says something out of pocket, he’s going to get checked and he’s going to get checked by me. You can’t be running your mouth about ticket sales when you’ve never sold a ticket in your life. I would prefer to not have to deal with Pat, but we’ll see what happens. I don’t think Pat realizes the dangerous things he’s doing,” he said.

Elsewhere during the interview, Punk commented on his promo aimed at McAfee. You can find his full comments here.

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