CM Punk claims he had a handshake agreement to return to WWE in 2019, so why didn’t it end up happening?
WWE Superstar CM Punk was a recent guest on My Mom’s Basement with Robbie Fox. During the discussion, Punk claims that before the spot on Backstage came together, he had a private meeting with Vince McMahon and Triple H about returning to WWE in 2018 or 2019. Punk said the two sides had a handshake agreement for him to return, but McMahon ghosted him after the meeting.
“I think the Twitter and the internet perception is I tried to go back to WWE, and they didn’t want me, so I went and did the FOX show. That’s not what happened at all. I had a hilarious, clandestine meeting in the Borgata in Atlantic City with Vince (McMahon) and Triple H. I don’t even know now. What is it? It’s 2025. This has to be 2018 or ‘19, and it’s just because Vince just started (calling).
“I had agents, they were telling me, ‘Hey, they wanna talk to you,’ and I was like, ‘Whatever, I’m not interested,’ and then Vince just started calling me. He was like, ‘Hey! I’m eliminating the middleman,’ and I was just like, ‘This is insane,’ and it just so happened that, ‘Oh, well, I’m gonna be here.’ ‘Alright, we can get there.’ You know, ‘Okay, alright’ and we had a meeting and we had a handshake agreement and then he ghosted me.
CM Punk and Triple H chipped away at their problems during this meeting
“So, that’s why it didn’t happen. Unbelievable. I’m gonna write a book someday… It’s a great story. It’s a fantastic story. Yeah, that would have been probably the first time that me and Triple H probably started chipping away at any problems or drama that we had in the past. That was the first instance… Yeah (I was open to a return at the time). I was very much just like, yeah, okay. Pay me, whatever. I took some stuff personally. Like, years have gone by. Alright, I’m over it, recognized that it’s a business. You don’t want me to take it personally? Just pay me.” [H/T: Fightful]
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