As noted, CM Punk appeared as a guest on Rock 95.5 out of Chicago, Illinois for an interview with Abe Kanan to promote his highly-anticipated showdown against MJF on Wednesday night's edition of AEW Dynamite on TBS from his hometown in "The Windy City."
In addition to the highlights we previously published from the interview here on the website, "The Best in the World" also spoke during the appearance about his first six months back as an active pro wrestling star in AEW, falling back in love with the business and more.
Featured below are some additional highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On reflecting on his first six months back as an active full-time pro wrestling star now that he has settled in as a regular for AEW: “It’s a lot of work but it’s rewarding work. I tried to tell myself I can’t care as much as I used to because I just burn out. It’s a big reason why I was gone for 7 years. It’s hard to do what we do at this level without caring, so instead I’ve adapted the philosophy of just leaving everything at work so when I’m not there, I’m not there. So I’m spread very thin, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just when I’m at AEW, I’m there 100%. I’m so on that I need the days off that I have every Wednesday or Friday, things like that to recuperate. The problem is, I’m such an asshole, I have like four other jobs and I don’t have time to decompress."
On falling back in love with the sport of pro wrestling: “So is it everything I thought it would be? It’s that, times ten. My barometer of whether it’s all worth it is I look forward to being on a plane. I hate leaving my dog, I hate leaving my wife but I get excited for road trips because it’s one day and I get to do what I’m falling back in love with and I have fun with it. It’s everything I thought it could be and more times ten, it’s challenging but everything that’s worth doing is hard so it’s rewarding.”
Check out the complete CM Punk interview via the video embedded below courtesy of Abe Kanan's official Twitter page, or by visiting iHeart.com.
CM PUNK INTERVIEW LIVE WITH ABE KANAN https://t.co/6DG0CzIMMD
— Abe Kanan (@abekanan) February 1, 2022
(H/T to WrestlingInc.com for transcribing the above quotes.)
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