CM Punk names his least favorite wrestling trope
CM Punk doesn’t have any plans to team up with Roman Reigns on the road to WrestleMania 42.
Ahead of Elimination Chamber in his hometown of Chicago, Punk made an appearance on The Morning Mosh Pit radio show. When asked to name one wrestling trope he would ban, Punk pointed to the overdone storyline of whether rivals will be able to form a tag team and get on the same page. Punk said he and Reigns will not be attempting to get along at any point over the next several weeks.
“How about the ‘can the guys that are wrestling form a tag team and get along?’ On the road to, say, WrestleMania. I’m not trying to tag with Roman over the next eight weeks. ‘Can they coexist?’ Man, shut up,” Punk said. “The answer is no, and I’ll see you in Las Vegas.”
The Punk vs. Reigns match will officially become locked in for WrestleMania if Punk retains his World Heavyweight Championship against Finn Balor at Elimination Chamber. WrestleMania is being held at Allegiant Stadium in Vegas on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19.
Punk told The Morning Mosh Pit that he does not know the match order for Saturday’s PLE yet. Another trope he does not like is always needing to have one of the Elimination Chamber matches open the card and the other close it. Punk thinks either his match against Balor or his wife AJ Lee vs. Becky Lynch would be good choices to open the night. Punk joked that, at this point in his career, the only way he’s throwing his weight around backstage is to go on first.
“People often talk about wrestling being political and like people throwing their weight around. ‘Oh, I gotta win, I gotta main event, this, this, that.’ I’m at the stage where if I do have any kind of political power, I’m trying to use it to wrestle first,” he said.
The United Center in Chicago is hosting Saturday’s event. Punk noted that, outside of his match, he plans on watching as much of the show as he can from the stands so he can feel the crowd.
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