CM Punk On The Advice He Gave Ronda Rousey Prior To Her WWE Debut

During a recent media scrum on Wednesday to promote his upcoming welterweight bout against Mike Jackson at UFC 225 on Saturday, June 9, 2018, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, former WWE Champion CM Punk revealed the advice he gave Ronda Rousey before her WWE in-ring debut at WrestleMania 34 in April.

“The only thing I told her was to just have fun,” said Punk. “I don’t know what it’s like back there in this current environment. I know she’d probably get treated differently, just as I know I probably get treated differently here. The only thing I ever told her is, ‘I know you’ve got a lot of people telling you, do this, don’t do this’ — whatever you do, when you go out there for WrestleMania, make sure you have fun. Period.”

“No, I did not,” CM Punk said. “I saw a couple of clips here and there. And still, when I say it’s hard for me to watch wrestling, it’s not like an anxiety thing, it’s not like an, ‘ugh, I can’t do it.’ I literally, I can’t get through eight seconds without being like, ‘OK, umm, can I change the channel? I’m bored, I gotta watch something else.’ It’s like going to a baseball game at [New York Mets stadium] CitiField. I like Wrigley Field, it’s old school. Going to a baseball game at CitiField, it’s like a guy gets ball four and they blow off fireworks and there’s LED screens on everything.

“Wrestling now is completely like that. There’s LED screens everywhere and there’s flashing lights and I feel like I’m gonna have a seizure.”