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The Straight Edge Superstar shoots on working with Ryback
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For the first time since bolting from WWE in January, CM Punk addressed the circumstances behind his departure from the sports-entertainment organization in a two-hour interview with Colt Cabana on the "Art of Wrestling" podcast. The podcast was released Thursday and is available here.
Beginning at 51:50, Punk gripes about his experience working with Ryback, who he brands as a dangerous worker and steroid user. Punk says wrestling Ryback "took twenty years off my fucking life" and blames him for injuring him on multiple occasions.
“I’m already beat up and I have to wrestle steroid guy," Punk says as he recalled being asked to work a program with Ryback in the fall of 2012 since management felt he could carry him in matches. "I call it like I see it. He’s very hurty, sometimes deliberate. There was one time he kicked me in the stomach as hard he could and he broke my ribs, right at the tail end. I never got an apology for that. He was something else. A real piece of work that guy."
Later in interview, Punk takes a jab at Triple H for failing to elevate Curtis Axel after promising he would. Punk offered to work with the third-generation wrestler, but WWE officials ignored his request. Instead, he was continuously booked in matches with Ryback—now paired with Paul Heyman—who he had requested to management to not to work with. Punk later agrees to work with him and gets injured in their first encounter.
"I go up to Ryan [Ryback's real name] and I go, 'Hey man, clean slate. Let's fucking kill this. Let's fucking show them that you're better than they think you are. Let's show them I'm better than they think I am and let's turn this mid-card shit into a fucking main event," said Punk.
Imitating Ryback's voice, "'Yeah, I'm really excited, blah, blah, blah.'"
Punk recalls, "First night out, Gorilla Press through a table...fucking misses the table. Dumps me on the concrete fucking ground. Tilts my fucking pelvis, fucks me up for weeks."
Punk later asks Ryback if he hurt him on purpose or if he's "dumb as fuck."
He continues to Cabana, "I'm compensating because my knee is still fucked, both my knees, you know what I mean? The one I just had surgery on six months ago and the one that was fucking torn up and I refused to have surgery on. I just wanted to rehab it, which I did. And now it's at the point where I walk up to him and I go, 'You can't tell me you didn't do that on purpose because you've done it so many times now. You either tell me right now you're dumb as fuck and you suck, or you did it on purpose. And he was like, 'I'm dumb as fuck. I'm sorry.'"
Punk says, "At that point, there was nothing I could do. In my mind it was like, 'Great. Fuck, there's nothing I can do.'"
Here is a GIF of the spot in question, which took place at last year's Night of Champions pay-per-view event.
"The Big Guy" fired back at allegations that he's careless, dangerous and unprofessional with an action figure diorama in
a message via social networking site Twitter.
Later, perhaps because he's had more time to reflect, perhaps because he's received some guidance from WWE, he's posted a
series of Tweets that discusses the matter more thoroughly, if every bit as explosively.
"For the record if I quit for being fragile and insecure I would make up excuses too," Ryback wrote. "Things didn't go my
way for a long time and I kept going day in and out. Slander is a powerful thing and to state complete made up nonsense for
no reason shows his insecurities. I will continue to bust my ass study matches every chance I get, cut promos when driving
and push myself for hours on end even when hurt. Thank you."
A short while later he deleted the series of Tweets.
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| A Look At AJ Lee |
While members of the WWE Universe were accustomed for years to seeing a Diva grace the cover of Playboy as part of the annual WrestleMania synergy, with WWE's current commitment to presenting a family-friendly product, you shouldn't expect AJ Lee to ever show up in the renowned publication. Now even if the barriers were lowered, it highly unlikely that Lee would participate in any form of pornography since she has gone on record as saying that she would "never" pose for Playboy because she considers herself "prude."
"Oh my God. Never, ever, ever!" Lee stated in response to the possibility of posing for the magazine during radio interview in August 2012 radio promoting that year's SummerSlam. "I can barely wear a low-cut shirt. I'm prude and I think that's what works for me is kind of being very innocent and prudish. It's gotten me pretty far and there are certain things that should be left to the imagination." She added, "Nothing wrong with it, but it's not for me."
In September 2014, Lee was involved in an alleged nude photo controversy after Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter she "was one of the latest victims in the latest batch of celebrity nude photos leaked that included the likes of Lady Gaga, Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson and Kaley Cuoco." This is in reference to photos of various celebrities—generally consisting of women, and with many containing nudity—being published on the imageboard 4chan, and later disseminated by other users on websites and social platforms such as Imgur, Reddit and Tumblr. The photos were believed to have been acquired via a breach of Apple's cloud services suite iCloud. Apple later confirmed that the hackers responsible for the leak had obtained the photos using a "very targeted attack" on account information, such as passwords, rather than any specific security vulnerability in the iCloud service itself.
Meltzer later said his report was incorrect.
"The note in last week's issue about a nude photo of A.J. Lee leaking on the Internet was not correct," Meltzer stated in the October 6, 2014 issue. "It was a nude photo of a woman who greatly resembled A.J. Lee, similar face and same hairstyle clearly trying to look like her, but wasn't her, so we apologize for the mistake."
On September 26, 2014, Lee addressed the controversy after a fan wrote via Twitter, "I HATE to Disappoint everyone in #WWE Universe the alleged @WWEAJLee #AJLee photo well the main 1 floating around is [adult star name] not AJ lol." She responded, "Is this a thing? Thanks, I think."
The purported photo had actually been circulating on Twitter for about a year and was labeled a look-a-like by the account that initially posted it. The adult film star in the image acknowledged it when asked on Twitter whether it's her by the same fan who Lee responded to. She wrote, "lol. Yea, thats me."
