30 Most INSANE Things Wrestlers Have EVER Said On Live TV
21. CM Punk Shoots On One Of His Own, Instantly Regrets It
CM Punk was relying on the support of his Chicago faithful on an All Out 2022 go-home Dynamite that required him to look credible against a Jon Moxley that had squashed him a week earlier. For the most part he got it, but in some chilling foreshadowing of where the real story was going rather than anything fictional, a single heckle took him out of his game, out of the fiction, and out of the 'Windy City's unanimous good books.
Recapping the foot injury he had possibly come back too soon from, he said;
"June 1st, I broke my foot. And that would've been bad enough, but then I wrestled an entire match on it. And to quote my surgeon, he says, 'I've pulverised the bones in my foot.' S'okay. Accidents happen. On June 8th, I got surgery for my shattered foot. I got three plates and sixteen screws put into my foot."
So far, so fine. Until he hears a lone heckle that may or may not - as a shoot - have been "Colt Cabana!"
Punk isolates the fan instinctively, and says;
"...Which, real quick, is sixteen more times than this fat guy has ever gotten screwed in his life."
It's a lame line and a lame mindset, cheap pop or not. Punk knows it, taking a physical and mental step back to add;
"I probably, I probably shouldn't have said that, but I probably shouldn't have done a lot of things in my career. And apparently one of them was coming back too early from a very serious injury".
And on it went until Ace Steel arrived to fire him up for the rematch after all. Just days after this, Punk's words cut so deep that they opened up a hole within AEW that took years to close. This was one of several tells at the time that the worst was yet to come.