After CM Punk left the WWE a couple of years ago, he appeared on the Art Of Wrestling podcast hosted by Colt Cabana. During the interview (that has now become infamous), Punk trashed Ryback. He said that Ryback was dangerous in the ring, he took years off of his life, among many other things.
In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated to promote his new podcast: Conversations With The Big Guy, Ryback spoke about Punk’s comments and how they did a lot of damage to him.
“Those Punk comments did a lot of damage to me. CM Punk has a tremendous following. When you have as many followers as he has, and you say something about somebody, they’re going to believe everything you say. To this day, I don’t know why Punk tied me in with his whole thing against the WWE. I feel like part of it was he was his unhappiest with the company when he was working with me, and I kind of got tied into all of it” (Source: Sports Illustrated).
He was upset at the WWE for never going to bat for him about the comments:
“I was always upset that the WWE never went out of its way to say, ‘That’s not true about this guy’. Guys like Jericho, who have been in the ring with me, went to bat for me, and I can’t thank them enough for that – but why couldn’t the company do that, especially when I took the hit on that? That always bothered me that they never tried to clear that up” (Source: Sports Illustrated).
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