CM Punk details meeting with Vince McMahon/HHH for WWE return in 2019

[Chris]

“I think the Twitter and the internet perception is I tried to go back to WWE and they didn’t want me, so I went and did the Fox show. Like, that’s not exactly — that’s not what happened at all. I had a hilarious clandestine meeting in the Borgata in Atlantic City with Vince and Triple H. I don’t even know now, like what is it? It’s 2025, this has to be 2018 or 2019.

“And it’s just cause Vince just started — I had agents, they were telling me, ‘Hey, they want to talk to you.’ And I was like, whatever, I’m not interested, you know? And then Vince just started calling me. He was like, ‘Hey, I’m eliminating the middle man. Like, we gotta.’ And I was just like, this is insane, you know?

“And it just so happened that like, well, I’m going to be here. All right, we can get there. Okay, all right. We had a meeting and we had a handshake agreement and then he ghosted me.”

“I was very much just like, yeah, okay — like, you know, pay me. I took some stuff personally. Years have gone by — like, all right, I’m over it. Recognize that it’s a business. Like, you don’t want me to take it personally, just pay me.”