Former WWE and NXT star Alex Riley was recently a guest on the Ross Report podcast hosted by the legendary Jim Ross. One of the highlights of the interview was when Riley was asked about CM Punk’s exit from WWE a few years ago.
CM Punk’s exit from the WWE has gotten a lot of publicity over the past few years based on his appearance on Colt Cabana’s podcast. Punk cited medical and various other reasons as to why he chose to leave the company.
Riley says that he doesn’t sympathize with Punk over his WWE exit:
“I don’t understand, and I didn’t really keep up with much of the complaints. I know there was something about a medical thing or something, but that’s the gig, that is what you signed up for. I don’t know what he ended up making because that wasn’t disclosed, but he ended up making a lot. If somebody is going to pay me over a million, or it doesn’t matter, but I think if you’re making that kind of money, if you are breathing you are working”
He continued:
“I was begging for somebody to give me work, I mean begging. Asking people everyday, why am I not being used? Why can’t I do this, and never really getting an answer, so only receiving the runaround, so to hear him push for other opportunities and get it, and then exit in the fashion he exited, I don’t know, I can’t sympathize with that because I wouldn’t do that, I don’t know the details of what he went through, but who knows”
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You can listen to the full podcast here.
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