Triple H Opens Up About Backstage Tension Between Roman Reigns & CM Punk: “At Any Point In Time, You Feel Like This Will Go Incredibly Unprofessionally”

Triple H hypes up the WrestleMania main event.

On night two of WWE WrestleMania 42 on April 19th, CM Punk will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Roman Reigns in the main event.

WWE Chief Content Officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque sat down with SmackDown commentator Joe Tessitore for an interview ahead of WrestleMania. Levesque opened up about the backstage tension that exists between Reigns and Punk. He said oftentimes, it feels like things could go wrong.

“This is one where you break down the sport and entertainment aspect of what we do. Very rarely does it crisscross into both. This one crisscrosses into both,” Levesque said about CM Punk and Roman Reigns’ program. “Obviously, there’s a tension when they’re in the ring with each other. There is a palpable, you can cut it with a knife, feeling of intensity. That intensity does not stop backstage. So, when they have to be in the vicinity of each other in backstage environments, it is on epic levels of tension. You know, where at any point in time, you will feel like this will go incredibly unprofessionally at any moment. You are just sitting there. You can smell the gas in the air and there are sparks everywhere, and you’re trying to get through it and get it in the ring at WrestleMania before it blows up, before the fire ignites and it goes really, really badly. When you talk about Unreal, this one is real, and real in a way that I don’t think many people can fathom the amount of — you’ll beep this but the moment of ‘f*ck you’ between the two of them is f*cking palpable.”

To read about the final Reigns/Punk segment before WrestleMania, head over to Fightful’s coverage of the April 13th Monday Night Raw.

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