Vince has retired and Triple H is taking over creative. But, CM Punk sees no changes ahead.
Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan took over WWE after Vince McMahon retired, as well as Triple H leading the charge on creative. Then, last Friday, Brock Lesnar reportedly left SmackDown before the show and had to be convinced to come back for the main event segment. Speaking at San Diego Comic Con (via Absolute Geek Podcast), Punk gave his thoughts on if there will be change in WWE with new leadership.
You think because he tweeted that ‘I’m retired’ that he’s not going to be hands-on? I don’t think the structure there, the….what’s the word I’m looking for…I don’t think the culture there changes at all. It is what it is. I’ll put it to you like this. Oh boy, people are going to be real fucking mad about this, but fuck it. Mercedes [Sasha Banks] and Trinity [Naomi] leave, they announce on SmackDown that, ‘gosh darn, we are so disappointed in them, they really let our fans down.’ Brock splits. Comes back, obviously, I think he worked the show. Where is Michael Cole saying, ‘Brock Lesnar really let these fans down.’ I walked out. They went on TV and called me a quitter. What’s changed? What’s the difference? You’re going to attack these two poor women who had enough and walked. They have bigger balls than everybody there. What’s changed? There’s nothing much that has changed. There’s people that talk about it and people who do it. The people who lick the boots and have the audacity to say that about those two women. Fucking cowards and bootlickers. This shit is ridiculous. Why didn’t they do it to Brock? They did it for me. It’s none of my business.
– CM Punk via Absolute Geek Podcast
On the May 16th episode of RAW, Sasha and Naomi walked out of WWE and haven’t been seen since. On the May 20th episode of SmackDown, Michael Cole announced the two were gone, in which they “let the WWE universe down.”
We’ll have to wait and see if there’s any significant change in the coming weeks following WWE’s move to new leadership.
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