CM Punk Didn’t Want To Mock Paul Bearer Unless ‘Everybody Was Okay With It’

CM Punk recalls mocking Paul Bearer in the lead up to WrestleMania 29.

After the passing of Paul Bearer in the lead up to WrestleMania 29 in 2013, CM Punk would take a nasty turn in his feud with The Undertaker, mocking Bearer alongside Paul Heyman. While The Undertaker would avenge his late friend, for Punk, he would not have wanted to do the storyline unless people were okay with it.

While speaking to Complex News in a new interview, Punk recalled the storyline, noting that he wouldn’t have wanted to do it without ‘everybody’ being okay with it, including Bearer’s family.

“I mean, it was heavy because while I knew Percy, I didn’t know him or have a connection to him like a lot of people in the company did, like Undertaker did. So I was careful to make sure and his family members, I think his son signed off on it. Cause I was like, I don’t want to do this unless everybody’s okay with it. Because at that time, you know, my, my deal was being a bad guy and trying to just get people to pay to see me beat up. So I wasn’t sure if they were going to be agreeable to, to everything. Cause I, you know, once you give me the green light, like, ‘are you sure about this?’ Like, it’s going to be pretty heavy. I was told by people that were super close to him that he would have loved it, so I can just go by with their their word. But yeah, it was- that’s one of those things. It’s like it’s a privilege and it’s an honor to be able to be respected enough to be handed this gift almost. It’s a shame that he died, obviously, but, to me, it’s the magic of what we do is we can pivot and use real life stuff,  and kind of blur the line. I was grateful that I was allowed to be able to do that.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Punk spoke about WWE NXT’s Lexis King. You can read more about that here.

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