Freddie Prinze Jr. Says CM Punk's AEW Issues Go Deeper Than Colt Cabana
Freddie Prinze Jr. has some insight on the recent CM Punk and Hangman Page drama.
Freddie Prinze Jr. has some insight on the recent CM Punk and Hangman Page drama.
When speaking on his podcast 'Wrestling with Freddie', Prinze Jr. said he believes the bad blood between Punk and Page goes deeper than Page's comments about Punk's prolonged personal issues with AEW star, Colt Cabana.
"There’s two ways to look at it. [Either] it’s work-shoot and he’s trying to turn heel or there’s real stuff going on and it was receipt time. I happen to know that it’s more of the latter, and I think he’s just trying to take advantage of it and saying ‘Okay, I’ll roll with it’. But not everyone backstage loves CM Punk and it’s not just because of Colt Cabana. It’s because of the way they feel he’s behaved since he’s got there behind the curtain. It was actually something that Hangman Page said in his promo when they were having their run to the title [match]. I remember [Page] said ‘I’m not just defending this title, I’m defending for all of those people back there’. A lot of people don’t feel like Punk shows anyone respect really, at least not the type of respect.. well let’s change the word cause respect is earned. The type of dignity that one would expect at work. When you don’t treat people as necessary parts of the pie, and I’ve seen this in a lot of movies, people look at you a certain way. That’s what I’ve been told as the kind of stuff that is going on. Hangman Page said a lot of real stuff."
Prinze made his first appearance on WWE programming when he was shown attending WrestleMania 24 in 2008. He was hired later that year to join the company's creative team and would do so until he departed WWE in February 2009.
He would make a cameo appearance in August 2009 when he hosted WWE's flagship program, Monday Night RAW. Prinze was re-hired by WWE in October 2010, where he held the roles of producer and director but would again leave the company in 2012.