During today’s WrestleMania 40 (Night One) Kickoff show, CM Punk commented on this era of wrestling being ‘the Triple H era.’ He said,
“It’s really interesting. This place, everyone asks me, ‘how is it? Is it different than when you were here ten years ago?’ Everything I see, it’s shockingly different. Having a private conversation with Big E, if you mind giving insight. I often think now when I’m here backstage and I’m having fun, and I’m having a ball. I think to myself, ‘Did I waste time? Should I have come back sooner? Should I not have left?’ He looked right at me and said, ‘No, brother, you had to leave.’ He’s a great coach and he’s assembled one hell of a team.“
During a recent edition of his “Wrestling With Freddie” podcast, Freddie Prinze Jr compared Sami Zayn and Chad Gable to Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed.
You can check out some highlights from the match below:
On the Sami Zayn/Chad Gable pairing: This has been a serious ‘yo, you’re in a fight’ and it was almost like Apollo Creed and Rocky. It’s like ‘what’s wrong with you man? If you don’t do this, you’re going to get killed out there,’ like it’s almost been that kind of a story.”
On Zayn’s future: “I bet you that Sami Zayn is the WWE World Champion in five years or less … I think he’s got another decade in this business before father time starts saying ‘why are you still doing this?’”
