CM Punk says he had machine guns pointed at him due to Chris Jericho incident with the Brazilian flag

My opponent that night [Jericho] rolled out of the ring and snatched a Brazilian flag from somebody. Brazil don’t play. In America, you get people who get bent out of shape, right? But there’s no law against it. People burning flags, doing whatever, right? Freedom of speech.

He rolled in the ring. I’m down looking at him going, ‘Hmmm, maybe no?’

I can’t remember exactly if he just threw it down and stepped on it, or if he maybe wiped his butt with it. Shawn Michaels did this to the Canadian flag, too. It was palpable, but still a little bit different than doing it in Brazil.

The instant this happened, all of a sudden, there’s a second referee in the ring, and I’m going, ‘Oh, what’s going on?’ One referee’s talking to him. The other referee’s talking to me, trying to relay the information. Then our head of talent relations is in the ring. This all happens lickety-split.

I’m looking around like, ‘Okay,’ and then I turn and I look, and the ring is surrounded by men in fatigues, and one has his gun pointed directly at me.

They were offended. I had my extra referee and my head of talent relations saying, ‘This match is over. This match is over. We got to wrap this up.’ Homeboy who did the thing was like, ‘Absolutely not. I refuse to do this.’ So I had to roll him up for real, stack him up, and the ref counted to three. I grabbed the flag—yay! Crowd pops.

I grab the flag, jump up on the turnbuckle. I’m showing it, I’m kissing the flag, you know. ‘Hey everybody, sorry. I love you.’

Then I got out of there, and they tried to snatch dude up, grab his passport, and we knew if he handed his passport over, he wasn’t coming home.

Under the cover of night, got him out of there, and then we continued on the tour. He went home.”