9 Funniest Times Wrestlers CORPSED On Live TV
8. Punking Out The Hulkster
Speaking in 2025 on the Pardon My Take podcast, CM Punk noted how in wrestling; "The business is built on trust… Some of them don’t like me. Some of them, I don’t care for. That’s the magic and the line we get to weave in and out” and having made no secret in prior years of not really caring for Hulk Hogan, Punk decided to weave in and out of that line when it came to turbo-charging his pre-Royal Rumble hype promo.
Moving up the gears with just the right measures of legitimate and cartoonish threat, he went nuclear on the former WWE Champion following the boos he'd received on the Raw Netflix debut, saying "You put Hulk Hogan in the Royal Rumble, I’ll throw his dusty ass over the top rope, and I’ll kill Hulkamania once and for all!"
Interviewer Jackie Redmond has proven herself to be the best in the company for measuring how animated to be during the various threats and challenges that are made in her presence, but she couldn't use out-and-out shock to mask just how funny she found the line.
Getting back on track as Punk took it home, Redmond got stoic just in time for matching Punk's energy as he wrapped it up, but her squashed smirk before that matched the energy of a crowd that came unglued for the verbal two-footer on the fallen star.