In a candid new interview with All The Smoke: Unplugged, CM Punk has explained how years of real backstage tension with Triple H finally ended. During his first WWE run, Punk felt that Triple H viewed him as a threat, while Triple H reportedly found him difficult and uncooperative. However, Punk has now disclosed that everything changed when he heard Triple H had a heart condition, and remembered seeing Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior’s emotional reconciliation just days before Warrior’s death. Realizing “this sh*t ain’t worth it,” he reached out to Triple H to bury the hatchet, and ultimately ended up returning to WWE at Survivor Series 2023 after AEW fired him.
“It was because after a while I reached out to Triple H and I knew he had this heart condition thing, and I had seen a clip of Hogan and the Warrior, and everything we do is filmed, what’s real, what’s not, and it’s Hogan, so you don’t know what’s the truth, but they’re having this conversation and kind of apologising and forgiving each other, then a couple of days later the Ultimate Warrior dies, it just made me realise this sh*t ain’t worth it, and I don’t care.” – CM Punk
Hogan and Warrior finally ended nearly 20 years of real-life animosity rooted in creative differences, financial disputes, and public criticism during the WrestleMania 30 weekend in New Orleans. This took place backstage before Warrior’s Hall of Fame induction, when Hogan approached him to clear the air. The two wrestling icons hugged and shook hands, closing a bitter chapter between them. Still, just days later, after a Warrior cut an emotional promo on the new WWE Hall of Famer would tragically pass away from a heart attack at age just 54.
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