WWE News: Vince McMahon ‘Apology’ Could Be Reason CM Punk Joined UFC


The WWE drama between Vince McMahon and CM Punk appears to be far from over, even though the popular wrestler has moved on to a new arena.

This week, CM Punk announced that he was signing with Ultimate Fighting Championship, confirming rumors that had circulated for months. Though the details are not entirely clear yet, UFC President Dana White said CM Punk is likely to move along carefully in his transition from the WWE to MMA.

“He wanted to fight here. He wanted to give it a shot, so we gave him an opportunity,” White said. “It’s not like Brock Lesnar. We’re not going to throw the kitchen sink at him. Lesnar had a wrestling background. (CM Punk) going to fight a guy who is 1-0, 1-1, 2-1 — something like that.”

While it wasn’t exactly a secret that CM Punk was planning to move into MMA, he may have had some extra motivation for the timing of his official announcement. The wrestler has been talking more about his rift with the WWE and Vince McMahon, including calling out the timing of his official firing and McMahon’s seemingly insincere apology.

CM Punk left the WWE after the 2014 Royal Rumble, a departure he said was due to a combination of mounting injuries and frustration over his character’s creative direction. Vince McMahon suspended Punk for two months and later terminated the wrestler’s contract — on his wedding day.

“The day of my wedding (to WWE Diva AJ Lee) I got a FedEx in the mail. It was my termination papers,” CM Punk said. “I was fired. I was fired on my wedding day. Very calculated, very deliberate. As much as I chuckled at it and didn’t let it affect my day, I was like once again, you pushed too f—–g far. You pushed the wrong guy.”

Vince McMahon tried to offer an apology, saying on “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s podcast that CM Punk wasn’t supposed to get his walking papers on his wedding day.

“I hope that one day, we’ll be able to get back together soon,” McMahon said.

But on a recent Colt Cabana Art of Wresting podcast, released on Thursday, CM Punk wasn’t interested in accepting the apology.

“It’s way too f—ing early, I have no interest in f—ing going back,” Punk said. “The difference in my appearance, my mental stability, everything across the board, now from 9 or 10 months ago, is so drastically different.”

Many believe the half-hearted apology from Vince McMahon may have hastened CM Punk’s decision to join UFC and furthered the odds that he could one day re-unite with WWE.

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