CM Punk is not as committed to main eventing WrestleMania as he once was. That’s not to say that he’d turn it down either.
The Best in the World is famous for his desire to headline the WWE’s biggest show of the year. CM Punk thought he should have main evented WrestleMania during his 434-day reign as WWE Champion between 2011 and 2013.
However, despite huge matches against Chris Jericho and The Undertaker, The Rock and John Cena went on last at WrestleMania 28 and 29. WrestleMania 41 will be CM Punk’s first WrestleMania since then. However, being in the main event is not the be all, end all for him.
CM Punk spoke in the post-Raw press conference following his win over Seth Rollins. He was asked how important it was to him to main event WrestleMania this year. He explained that he shouldn’t be held to what he said a decade ago. However, he said he wouldn’t turn down the main event if offered.
“While I think you’d be foolish to say that it doesn’t matter, I would also feel it’s foolish to hold me to the same ideas and things that I said ten, twelve years ago.” CM Punk said. “A lot of other people think that maybe I need to main event WrestleMania [to] I don’t know, solidify anything I’ve ever done. I could have never come back here and had a Hall of Fame career, right?
“To me, if that opportunity arises, I’m not gonna shy away from it because it scares the hell out of me, frankly, and I think if your dreams don’t scare you, then you need to find different ones, bigger ones. Main eventing the first Raw on Netflix is a pretty big deal, though. Nobody else can say they did that. I want people in the locker room to feel the way I did; you know, I want people to look at me and go, ‘That should be me. I want that opportunity, I want that situation, that high-pressure match,’ because pressure will make diamonds, and there’s too many talented people in that locker room to be complacent.”
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