CM Punk Recalls Triple H Throwing Away Punk’s Script For A Promo Following 2023 Return

CM Punk made his return to WWE at WWE Survivor Series 2023, shocking the wrestling world. Punk came out at the end of the night after Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, Jey Uso, Sami Zayn, and Randy Orton defeated The Judgment Day (Damian Priest, Finn Bálor, “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio, and JD McDonagh) and Drew McIntyre in a WarGames match.

The landscape of WWE had changed in the nearly decade since Punk had left after the 2014 WWE Royal Rumble with Triple H in charge of the creative.

Speaking to Josh Lawless of SportBIBLE, Punk recalled how Triple H saved him from doing a scripted promo after his return.

“I come back and I shit all over Randy’s moment at Survivor Series,” Punk said as a joke. “Randy’s been gone, he’s rehabbed, he’s got a new spine. He comes back and here’s CM Punk to just step all over it. The following week, he has a match, I think it’s with Dom [Dominik Mysterio], and they go over on their time. It drastically cuts my promo time. We’re all hooting. I’m laughing about it. ‘Whatever, this is fun.’ Whatever I don’t get to say this week, I’ll just say next week, that’s the beauty of doing 52 live shows a year. I was running around with a piece of paper in my hand that had whatever I was supposed to say. I keep looking at it. Triple H gets up and comes up to me and goes, ‘What are you doing, man? You’re freaking everybody out.’ ‘What do you mean I’m freaking everybody out?’ ‘Nobody here has ever seen you hold a script in your hand and read it like you’re not just going to go out there and say whatever the hell you want.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, well, you know, I’m new around here. I don’t want to step on anybody’s toes.’ He grabbed the piece of paper, crumpled it up, and threw it out. ‘You’re CM Punk. Just go out there and talk to the people. ‘Right. Right.’ That’s what I needed to hear because I’m trying to move in a certain way and he’s like, ‘No, go be you. That’s why you’re here.'”

Elsewhere during the interview, Punk commented on people going over time and the unwritten role tied to it. You can find his comments here.

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