CM Punk Addresses Vince McMahon's Apology on Stone Cold Steve Austin's Podcast on WWE Network

CM Punk returned to his good friend Colt Cabana's podcast, Art of Wrestling, to follow up on the previous episode in which Punk detailed his departure from WWE. The second episode was all about closing this chapter in Punk's life and moving onto the next one, but of course he had some more comments about his time in the wrestling business. He also addressed Vince McMahon's apology to him.

McMahon appeared on a live version of Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast on the WWE Network after Monday Night Raw and apologized that Punk received his termination papers on his wedding day. Here's what Punk had to say about that (transcribed by Cageside Seats):

"I don't want to hear 'oh, it was a coincidence.' I don't want to hear 'oh, the lawyers didn't talk to talent relations.' I talked to Hunter on the 11th, on the 13th Fed Exed overnight I got a document that was dated the 12th. My wife asked for that time off so she could A) get married, B) go on her honeymoon. The weekend after her honeymoon she was back on TV. They knew. I don't want to hear 'oh, it was a coincidence.'

"And you know what, I'll address it. If the apology was sincere you wouldn't use it as a publicity stunt on Austin's podcast. You have my phone number. You have my address. You could text, you could call, you could show up when you're a 10-minute f*cking drive from my house and apologize to me like a man. That's the f*cking reality of it."

Punk had more to say on the subject:

"People are asking me like 'do you accept Vince's apology?' And I'll say I appreciate the sentiment but that was not a sincere apology and he knew about it since June. Why didn't he apologize in June if he really felt bad about it? He just wanted to make sure a TV camera was on him so he could kind of damage control it and be like 'oh, I'm really sorry.' Well, if you were you would have apologized earlier, and if you were, if you really wanted to talk to me, you would have responded after I got a hold of everybody in the office. You would have said 'you're unsuspended.' You would have said 'we need you back on TV' like you did when I was walking out of the hospital still anesthetized. ... So, yeah, it's done. We're closing this chapter of my life."

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