The ‘Second City Saint’ has weighed in on WWE’s latest docuseries.
WWE: Unreal premiers on July 29th, offering viewers on Netflix unprecedented access behind the scenes and into the writers’ room.
Appearing on Unsportsmanlike with Evan Cohen, Chris Canty, and Michelle Smallmon, CM Punk was asked for his thoughts on the show, to which he claimed he isn’t against the idea, but does find it strange.
“I’m probably the wrong guy to put on this show to try and talk it up. It’s not that I’m so much against it, it’s that my entire existence in my profession, professional wrestling, you’re taught and you’re brought up, and you’re old school, you protect the business. It’s always been that way. Since the 1920s or 1930s, everyone knew that wrestling was predetermined. They talk about how they didn’t know, and how in the 1980s we just kind of blew it wide open, and now we’re exposing the business. If you’re living under a rock, you don’t know, but most people do know. What this show is going to do is just show us backstage in our environment, interacting with each other and that’s really for the fans. You see it all the time with football shows like Hard Knocks. That’s a big one. You’re in the room, you’re seeing the special teams, Xs and Os, and the relationships between the coaches and players and families. That’s sort of what we’re doing. We’re following suit in a way. It’s just really strange, for me at least, because I’ve always been taught you protect the business, you don’t let the insiders in.”
-CM Punk
Punk is set to feature on the show as cameras go backstage on the Road to WrestleMania 41, including this year’s Royal Rumble event.
WWE: Unreal consists of five 50-minute episodes, titled “New Era,” “Push,” “Worth the Wait,” “Heel Turn,” and “WrestleMania.”
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
