CM Punk Discusses The Strangeness Of WWE: Unreal

WWE star CM Punk has opened up about the strangeness of being involved in the upcoming Netflix docuseries WWE: Unreal.

During an appearance on ESPN Radio (alongside Rhea Ripley), Punk gave his thoughts on the series, the first part of which will drop on the streaming service on July 29.

"I'm probably the wrong guy to put on this show to try to talk it up. It's not that I'm so much against it, it's that my entire existence in my profession, professional wrestling, you're taught and you're brought up and if you're old school, you protect the business. It's always been that way".

"I feel like since the 20s or 30s, everybody knew wrestling was predetermined. They talk about how they didn't know and they talk about how in the 80s, we just kind of blew it wide open and now everybody's exposing the business and this and that. I think if you're living under a rock, you don’t know, but most people do know", he said.

Comparing the show to what the NFL does with Hard Knocks, Punk added:

"You're in the room, you're seeing the special teams, you're seeing the Xs and the Os, and you're seeing the relationships between the coaches and the players and their families and all that, and that's sort of what we're doing. We're following suit in a way. It's just really strange, for me, at least, because I've always been taught you protect the business".

Later on, Punk noted that he never fully knew when he was being filmed for the show, saying:

“I was never sure when they were filming, what they were filming, who's mic'd up. You could probably make a really good blooper reel of me looking directly down the lens of the camera going, what are you doing? Get out, don't film this".

WWE Hall of Famer Jake 'The Snake' Roberts is certainly no fan of the concept, which he has criticised as 'foolish'.

H/T F4WOnline

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