During an interview this week on Club Shay Shay, WWE star Seth Rollins was asked if he and CM Punk have “made up.”
Rollins said no, and it will probably be a long time until they are able to fix their broken relationship.
“No. I wouldn’t say so. I mean, there’s obviously some sort of working relationship, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to go out there and have matches. But there’s just so much, it’s so complex.
I think maybe once we’re both away from the business, or retired, or hung it up, there might
be an opportunity for reconciliation there. It’s just so hard for me to separate the CM Punk that there is now from the CM Punk that was a really rotten friend to me 10 years ago. And so, it’s just, those wounds take time to heal, I think. Whether or not he cares to make the effort to do that, and I care to care if he makes the effort to do that, I don’t know. I don’t know if either of us have the time for it at the moment.”
Rollins continued by saying WWE only became bigger and better after Punk walked out in 2014, and there was no need to bring him back. WWE never requested that he and CM sit down to “figure it out” before working together when Punk returned to the company.
“No. There was never a time where the two of us were sat down and had a conversation like that.
There were conversations had before he came back about whether or not it’s something that I could be okay with. And you know, he’s back. I always feel like if there’s business to be done, that’s bigger than me. That’s bigger than my grievances. At the end of the day, it’s not my sandbox. I don’t make those decisions.
I think WWE would be just fine without CM Punk, but I do think there is a large portion of our fan base that is very happy that he is back.”
Rollins explained that he still can’t get over the way Punk cut off all communication with him after leaving in 2014, without any kind of personal falling out between them prior to that. All the guy had to do was send one text, and their relationship might be completely different now.
“Like I said, it’s just a lot to get over. I think, literally if he would have just replied one time to one text, or one call, and said hey man, I’m not ready yet, or hey man, it’s not you…just one time, anything, would have changed the whole narrative for me.”
Rollins is blurring the lines of reality here, because he was asked to go outside of kayfabe to answer many of the Punk-centric questions. However, even when Seth is “shooting” in this interview, pretty much everything he says is consistent with what his character has also said on WWE TV all along about Punk being a hypocrite who abandoned his friends and is now back to cash in on WWE’s success without him. In other words, I think Rollins did a great job of working a shoot back into a work, brother.
Do you think Seth Rollins and CM Punk will ever squash their kayfabe and/or real life beef? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.
