10 Dumbest Reasons Wrestlers HATE Each Other For Real

2. CM Punk & Hangman Page

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CM Punk was really, really annoyed with Hangman Page using a line about not respecting "workers rights" in a promo on the May 25th edition of Dynamite, and even more annoyed with some footage he'd seen that he'd construed as disrespectful to wrestling legends.

He let him have it in the post-All Out press scrum, saying that;

"For an empty-headed f*cking dumb f*ck like Hangman Adam Page to go out on national television and go into business for himself...I'm trying to run a f*cking business, and when somebody that hasn't done a damn thing in this business jeopardises the first million dollar house that this company has ever drawn off my back and goes on national television and does that. It's a disgrace to this industry, it's a disgrace to this company....We're far beyond apologies. I gave him a f*cking chance, it did not get handled and you saw what I had to do, which was very regrettable - lowering myself to his level."

Punk was addressing going off-book himself in an enormously unprofessional fashion during a promo duel with John Moxley on August 17th, but he was more concerned with what he felt was yet another indiscretion from Page. Adding that;

"We have a locker room full of pretty brilliant minds...for all the wisdom and brilliance it has, isn't worth sh*t when you have an empty-headed idiot who's never done anything in the business do public interviews and say 'eh, I don't really take advice'. Who the f*ck do you think you are? You know? That's stupid."

The very definition of dumb reasons, these are misunderstandings and miscommunications that can be ironed out if both parties want it enough.

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