CM Punk Accused Of Being Involved In Another Fan Incident

CM Punk’s recent hotel controversy continues to generate discussion, with another fan now sharing an experience he claims to have had with the WWE Champion during WWE’s visit to Perth, Australia, for Elimination Chamber 2024.

The debate began after Punk posted — and later deleted — an Instagram Story following WWE’s live event in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He wrote,

“Ahi for breakfast. Breakfast of champions. Please do not follow me to my hotel. Las Cruces, you were lovely—loud and fun. See you all soon. Albuquerque on deck. Thank you.”

The situation prompted YouTuber “Smartest Mark Alive” to recount what he described as a similar interaction with Punk during Elimination Chamber weekend in Perth. Before telling the story, he emphasized that he was not defending fans who invade wrestlers’ privacy and acknowledged that nobody knows exactly what happened in Las Cruces. He said,

“This is not about stalking wrestlers or hounding them or getting in their private space or anything like that. This is a completely different scenario… I don’t know if they hounded him… Nobody really knows that because the video was after.”

“The elevator door opens. We start to walk in. We lift our heads and we see quickly that there is a lot of wrestlers in the elevator… I said, ‘Hey guys, sorry, are you guys going up or are you guys going down?’ They said, ‘No, we’re going up.’… which was fine. We get it.”

“Punk, we love you. You’re still the best in the world. Do you mind if we have a photo?’ He just looked at him and said, ‘No. This is a hotel room.’ We said, ‘Okay, yeah, we know. We’re staying here too. We’re not hounding you.’ We literally just asked.”

“CM Punk steps back in and my friend goes, ‘Punk, it’s all good. You’re still the best in the world. We love you.’ And he just looked at him… put his head down. Didn’t even say hello. Didn’t acknowledge us. Nothing.”

“Bayley had to step in and say, ‘No, no, no, no. I’m the best in the world.’ She started laughing. We started having a little joke with her… and CM Punk was just completely having his head down.”

“We’re literally going into the same elevator on our level. Nobody else is around… My friend asked him for a photo, he said no, and that was it. Other than that, we didn’t ask anyone for photos. We were just, ‘Hey, how you going? How do you like Australia?’ CM Punk didn’t respond to anyone.”

“Everyone else spoke to us that entire weekend… We’re not asking. We’re not hounding you for photos… We were just, ‘Hey, how you going? How do you like Australia?’ That type of thing. And they responded. Raquel Rodriguez is probably the nicest person you will ever meet in the entire world. She was an absolute superstar.”

“It’s not hard to say hello to someone. It’s not people getting in your private space or people hounding you. If you’re just saying, ‘Hey mate, how you going?’ No response. That is the issue here.”

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