19 Things WRESTLING Wants You To Forget About CM Punk

19. He Was Supported In The WWE Locker Room By...

...Shawn Michaels.

This is according to former WWE writer Dave Lagana, who noted that creative meetings often centred around burying Punk, and that it was hard to break that cycle unless you had the power to do so. 'HBK" did.

Lagana explained during his I Want Wrestling podcast that;

"The meeting quickly turned into another CM Punk bash fest...my role was to run the meeting but dare not speak out of turn on the veteran agents. This was how the previous months' meetings had gone but this day was different. It was a new voice in the room that changed everything. 'Um, if you don't like something the kid is doing, why don't you work with him to fix it...Instead of killing him.' That voice belonged to Shawn Michaels."

The story was particularly interesting because for years, Michaels had been rumoured to have been involved in a burial of the 'Straight Edge Superstar' before he'd even made it to the third brand...