CM Punk Comments On World Heavyweight Title Win, Says Being Back In WWE Has Been A ‘Dream’
Punk is back on top of the mountain at WWE.
Closing out WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event on November 1st was a singles match between Jey Uso and CM Punk for the vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The title was vacated after the former champion, Seth Rollins, went down with an injury and is going to be out for six months.
Punk emerged victorious from the bout to become a seven-time WWE World Champion. The day after his win, he was present at the Tampa Bay Lightning versus Utah Mammoth hockey game and spoke with Nick Olczyk. Punk commented on his title win.
“Yeah, I won the title here last night, and happy accident, I get to come watch some hockey today so, I’m enjoying my day off.”
To follow up on that, Punk was asked about his comeback to WWE and said every day has been a dream for him.
“Every day’s been a dream. Honestly, every day is gratitude. Obviously, I love hockey so much, I kind of draw the parallels between my wrestling career and hockey, and I’m the old guy in the room now, and I’m just happy I get to lace up my skates, and the privilege to be able to walk the room, walk the locker room, and the halls with a lot of talented young stars and seeing all the fans, all the places I’ve been all around the world multiple times. Getting to revisit stuff and see the young and old all love wrestling. It’s great. It’s been a dream.”
To close the conversation, Punk spoke about what’s next for him as WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
“What’s next? What’s next is the next shift. Second period (of the hockey game), I might go check what kind of food you guys have, send some pictures to my wife. If you guys got some crazy nachos or something, she’ll be excited. I’m on my way after the game to Albuquerque for Monday Night Raw. So, tune in, Netflix, Raw…”
Fightful will have written and audio/video coverage of the 11/3 Monday Night Raw. The company is now on the road to its Survivor Series: WarGames Premium Live Event on November 29th.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Nick Olczyk with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
