Arn Anderson discussed CM Punk’s pipebomb promo in 2011 and his frustrations in WWE around this time during a recent edition of ARN.
Here is what he had to say:
“I knew that that was him expressing his real views. It’s too strong to not be. That’s one of those things that I think that the ‘brain trust’ said, ‘Let him go say what he wants.’ I don’t know if they expected it to go that far, but they’re still talking about it today.”
“I knew he was dinged up, and he was working hurt. That bothered him some too. He needed to get well. I know he wasn’t happy for a number of reasons, but it was never one of those things where I sat down beside him and said ‘OK what’s bugging ya?’ I would just go by and see that he wasn’t joking, he wasn’t stretching out, he wasn’t kidding around, or doing anything like that. He would just kind of be wherever he was, kind of to himself. I would just ask him, ‘You alright?’ He’d go ‘Ahh, I guess,’ and I wouldn’t question it. That’s a guy’s personal space. If he wanted to let me in, he would have said ‘Hey, sit down, let me ask you something. But I knew something was going on because he was positioned well on the card.”
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