https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHIJlSXdq3s There are a couple of interviews shortly before CM Punk made headlines and became the story of the year by walking out on WWE in January that hint at his unhappiness within the company but none more than in his annual half hour chat at his home with MMA journalist and friend Ariel Helwani. Discussing his upcoming contract renegotiations, Punk admits that no ones talking to him about it yet, which is exactly the way he wants it. He further acknowledges that hes not the same man advocating sweeping reform in WWE in 2011: he says hes tired now, exhausted, and he doesnt need the grief anymore. He makes reference to the two months he had off after Wrestlemania the year before, where he got to do things like jiu jitsu, go to hockey games and UFC shows all things he wouldnt have time for under the WWEs punishing schedule and says that it was probably his first vacation ever from wrestling and travelling, and that it hadnt been long enough. He also says that he had no problem with Batista returning to win the Rumble: his problem with the Rock taking the Wrestlemania main event two years in a row stemmed from Johnson not being a full time guy, not one of the boys, whereas Batista had signed up for two years and was working the schedule, doing house shows. Hes typically cagey about the rest: about the Rumble, Wrestlemania, whether hes still being used correctly by management, but no ones entirely sure whether those were ever serious concerns of his anyway. Whatever the case, this is the final serious interview that CM Punk gave about the business before abruptly leaving it, apparently forever. Enjoy.
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