This just in: the war between CM Punk and Drew McIntyre isn’t over. Of course, it felt as if it could be nearing its conclusion after the latter defeated the former at Summerslam, largely due to Punk raging against special guest referee Seth Rollins, but Rollins being shelved by injury means there is again nothing standing between the two WWE superstars.
So when McIntyre was asked recently to speak on Punk’s status in professional wrestling, a few days after Punk beat him with a belt on WWE RAW, the Scottish Warrior did exactly that.
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McIntyre laid his feelings bare for The Masked Man Show, via Fightful.
"I can actually do that because I always tell the truth, and I'm not a hypocrite, unlike Punk. His answer was just lazy. 'He's the fourth best behind the Highlanders.' That's not true, it's just lazy. One nice thing about Punk: he sells a lot of t-shirts. That's true. He's great for merchandising.
“He's a big name. The thing that drives me most crazy is that he goes around masquerading, calling himself a professional wrestler. That actually pisses me off to be honest. Invokes names like Harley Race, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat.
“Punk took nine years off. He sat on his ass and did nothing while guys like myself and the rest of the WWE roster worked their asses off 52 weeks a year, didn't take our ball and went home. He quit the company and went and sat on his ass.
“I got fired. I got told, 'Hey, you're not good enough right now. Bugger off.' My response wasn't to sit on my couch. I'm going to keep wrestling and work harder than anybody in the world and reinvent myself and come back and reach the top of the WWE mountain and prove I'm the best in the world. That's what I've done. I'm a pro wrestler day in and day out.
"He went away. He's been living on the pipe bomb, living on the feud with Cena, he's smart and maximized and became a big star. Nostalgia is a hell of a thing. He's been gone for all this time. This legend has been created.
“He's no longer a professional wrestler. He's an attraction. There is nothing wrong with being an attraction, we need attractions, but don't f*cking say you're a professional wrestler if you're not a professional wrestler.
“I'm a professional wrestler."
And the war rages on …
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