CM Punk Describes WWE Backstage Environment

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, and one of the backstage stories he told was about WWE's backstage environment.

Here's what Punk had to say about the atmosphere at WWE (transcribed by Cageside Seats):

"Everything is micromanaged to the point where there's no creativity anymore. Why bother going to the job and being like 'oh, I have this great idea' when every time you do that somebody goes 'no, do it this way' and another person comes by and goes 'no, do it this way.' You just have to do what they say.

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It's like you get bottom of the ninth, World Series, the tying run is on third. Skipper goes 'swing away, get that guy home.' And then you get up there and the third base coach is yelling at you to bunt and the first base coach is telling you to lean into the pitch and get hit. You're just like 'wait, what?!? But the Skipper said...' And everybody has their own f*cking agenda. And then if you don't do what the first base coach wants he f*cking hates you and the third base coach is like 'ha ha, he did what I wanted' but then the next time the first base coach gives you a suggestion you're like 'this mother*cker is trying to sabotage me because I didn't use his idea from last time.' That's the way that f*cking sh*t works."

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