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CM Punk calls Hulk Hogan a “piece of sh*t” and talks about why AEW was chosen over WWE

Aaron Rift

CM Punk recently appeared on the Rasslin with Brandon F. Walker podcast and commented on the biggest draws in wrestling history…

“Hulk Hogan is a bigger star than Steve Austin but then you look at business periods and eras and box office receipts and all that other stuff. I think Hogan’s a piece of shit so obviously, I’m gonna be like Steve Austin, yay. But that’s another podcast.”

Punk also talked about why he chose AEW over WWE…

“I had the option and I went, ’It’s the devil you know against maybe the devil you don’t know. I know what I’m getting if I go work for Vince. I know who he is. I know what he is. It’s not going to change. I didn’t have fun, necessarily last time I was there. I had no reason to believe it was ever going to change. I looked at what I would be doing. I’ve done it all. Who did I wrestle on that side of the fence? On the AEW side of things, I’m like a kid at Christmas. A kid like Dante Martin, I watched him and the stuff he can do. I feel like I’m watching a 1995 Nitro where it has a different feel to it. It feels gritty. It feels rough around the edges, and oh, by the way, here’s two Luchadores who had a layover in Tijuana. They’re exhausted, they go out there, and they have a 6-minute match, but they put on such a show, and they pack so much in 6 minutes and have it make sense. I’m an artist and I’m looking and I go, ‘Oh, I’ve never painted with that brush before. I can’t wait to get a hold of that brush.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)