CM Punk Talks About Bray Wyatt’s Unfulfilled Dream of Headlining WrestleMania with Him

CM Punk has revealed that Bray Wyatt came up to him after the Nexus disbanded and manifested for the two of main eventing WrestleMania one day.

CM Punk Talks About Bray Wyatt’s Unfulfilled Dream of Headlining WrestleMania with Him

CM Punk (via- WWE)

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CM Punk replaced Wade Barrett as the leader of the Nexus in December 2010. He then got to work with the late Bray Wyatt for about a month in that villainous group. Wyatt, the then-Husky Harris, was sent to NXT after he left the stable in January 2011. Punk recently recalled a heartfelt conversation he had with the deceased wrestler back then.

Reminiscing about a picture of him as the Nexus leader on WWE Break It Down, Punk’s attention shifted toward his old friend Husky Harris. ‘The Best in the World’ revealed that he was upset for Bray Wyatt over his demotion to WWE’s developmental territory.

However, the real-life Windham Rotunda came up to Punk and was in high spirits, despite knowing that he’ll have to get back to the drawing board. The former Wyatt Family leader still manifested for himself and CM Punk to be main-eventing WrestleMania somewhere down the road.

As one could see in the following clip, there’s a big smile on Punk’s face as he brought that up. While the ‘Eater of Worlds’ didn’t get to close out a night of WrestleMania in his career, the Second City Saint’s childhood dream of living it turned into a reality earlier this year.

‘The Voice of the Voiceless’ was the last entry of WrestleMania Saturday in a match that comprised him, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins. WWE even brought back Punk’s cult classic theme song, This Fire Burns, for a special video package that was played just before Living Color did a live rendition of his Cult of Personality entrance. Even though he didn’t emerge victorious, the ‘Best in the World’ had realized a lifelong dream that very night in Las Vegas.

CM Punk takes a walk down the memory lane recounting feud with Jeff Hardy

In the aforementioned video, CM Punk talked about the Jeff Hardy feud at length, which he described as a substantial rivalry in his career. The Chicago-born wrestler explained his mindset at the time was that of an artist who kept looking at the negative spaces, as in what others weren’t doing. It made him choose yellow as the color of his wrestling trunks in that TLC match with Hardy at SummerSlam 2009.

CM Punk and Jeff Hardy
CM Punk and Jeff Hardy [via- WWE]

‘The Cookie Master’ credited his feud with Hardy for leveling him up, as he got to show his skills on the mic. Punk called it his first real exercise in being able to show the audience that he could captivate the masses based on talking some trash. Moving on to the next picture, one could see Punk with the classic Jeff Hardy face paint.

Knowing that he was at loggerheads with arguably the biggest babyface of the time, imitating Hardy was just evil, admitted Punk. The former AEW Champion came out to Hardy’s entrance music a week after beating him in a Loser Leaves WWE steel cage match on SmackDown.

Initially, the fans in the arena erupted with jubilation, but the smiles faded once they realized that it was CM Punk after all. ‘The Best in the World’ said he was looking for a way to habitually step over the line, and tricking an entire building into believing that their hero had come back was a heel tactic at its best.

If one goes back and rewatches that segment, the fans were legitimately pissed off at the ‘Second City Saint’. Punk gave himself a 10/10 rating for that impression and even exclaimed that the rib was on him for nailing the parody to near perfection. It took a number of rehearsals to get the taunts right, but Punk pulled it off just as he and people backstage in WWE would’ve wanted.

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