On a recent episode of the ‘Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard’ podcast, the show covered the rise of CM Punk in WWE. Prichard alongside co-host Conrad Thompson shared some stories about Punk and his career.
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One of these stories was CM Punk drinking alcohol. As we all know, Punk is ‘straight edge’ and doesn’t drink or do any drugs. This was a big part of his WWE gimmick for a number of years.
Prichard revealed that the one time he saw Punk take a drink was actually out of respect for wrestling legend: Harley Race.
“I looked at him and said, ‘so you don’t drink, you don’t do drugs, you don’t do anything?’ [CM Punk] says ‘no, but I’m not a prude either.’ I said: ‘okay, explain that.’ So he explained that he really didn’t want to judge others that did choose that lifestyle and this is what got him over with me automatically.”
Prichard continued:
“He was in Kansas City or St Louis or somewhere and it was Harley Race’s birthday. And he was in a camp — Harley’s camp and they were out at a restaurant bar type thing and they wanted to do — everybody got shots for Harley’s birthday. Now Punk doesn’t drink, don’t do drugs, but he took a shot out of respect for Harley Race. And he goes, ‘you know, Harley asked me to do it, one shot’s not gonna kill me. I’m not gonna go get hammered — I took a shot out of respect for Harley Race.’ And for whatever reason I just thought that was cool. That just kinda showed the love and passion he had for the business and respect for the old-timers. He didn’t have to, and it would have been fine.”
You can check out the full podcast here.
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