Seth Rollins Had Mixed Emotions About CM Punk's WWE Return, Says He Has To Earn His Respect

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WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin'" Rollins spoke with the hosts of the "Absolute Best Of" special edition of WWE Monday Night Raw this week for an interview.

During the discussion, Rollins spoke about how CM Punk has a long way to go before earning his respect, and how he had mixed emotions about him returning to WWE.

Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview.

On having mixed emotions about CM Punk returning to WWE: "It was such a mixture of emotions. Rage and disappointment, but also, you kind of knew it was coming, and then when you heard it, it was almost a bit of disbelief, like you’d seen a ghost, but a ghost that you really want to punch in the mouth."

On how he has a long way to go before earning Rollins' respect again and how Punk is a prime example of how you should never meet your heroes: "Ooof, I don’t know, man. We have a long road to get to that point. It’s been ten years of him doing the opposite of him earning my respect. I had a lot of respect for this guy. I put him on a pedestal in a lot of ways, and for me, he was the epitome of don’t ever meet your heroes because they’ll always disappoint you. That’s what it’s been for me for the last ten years, just a series of disappointments, over and over and over. I’ve known the guy for two decades. It’s been a wild twenty years. For him to get to a point where he’s earned my respect again, I don’t want to say it’s Mount Everest because I don’t think that would be doing it justice, to be honest. It’s going to be a long road, if we ever get there."

Check out the complete segment from the show below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.