10 Compensations Wrestlers Accepted As Payback
1. CM Punk - A Public Apology From Vince McMahon
And one last one that bends the rules slightly in that it wasn't accepted, rare as the gesture may have been.
CM Punk's revelation on his infamous 2014 two-part podcast interview with Colt Cabana that WWE fired him on his wedding day was both the most and least surprising detail in a chat full of them. The company hasn't been afraid of making decisions based on spite in the past, and the idea of 'The Voice Of The Voiceless' getting his walking papers moments before walking down the aisle felt completely in line with those low expectations.
What was more surprising was when McMahon publicly apologised for what he deemed a corporate miscommunication during a headline-grabbing interview with Stone Cold Steve Austin that aired on the WWE Network within weeks of those Art Of Wrestling bombshells.
With no desire, urge or need to, 'The Straight Edge Superstar' batted the sentiment back. Holding a fairly firm line on things, he made it explicitly clear that he was working for Fox when he returned as a part-time host for Backstage, not WWE. An assumed start in AEW will only deepen what now feels like a permanent divide.
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