CM Punk finally speaks on this week's AOW Podcast

Yeah I get what you're saying... and I'm not one of those cases. But for the people who pay for the ticket to see other performers and still want to send a message to WWE that's the way to do it. After hearing to this podcast, I really think that chanting CM Punk towards HHH and Stephanie McMahon to hijack all of their segments... it will get to them pretty badly. They seem to hate him, so that has to annoy the sh** out of them.

They also could have done Cena vs. Rock vs. Orton. There are at least 5 guys on Punk's paygrade that could have main evented and deserve it as much as he does. Punk's problem is he wants equal treatment to Cena, but without selling tickets and merch like Cena he simply doesn't deserve it.

I've said this over and over again, CM Punk's only logical opponent at WrestleMania XXIX was The Undertaker. The more I hear of people wishing to had seen a Triple Threat Match headlining 'mania XXIX, it makes me want to rip my hair out.

While there were guys on Punk's level, like an Orton, Orotn has main evented WrestleMania. He crapped the bed when he did in 25, but still, he got the chance. Punk, as a face, moved more merch than Orton and got bigger pops than he ever did. He was also more over as a heel.

On topic, it's great to finally hear about stuff from CM Punk. I'm sure there are two sides to the story and as we all know, the full truth usually falls somewhere in between. I do believe a fair amount of this.

- If he did indeed get less of a paycheck than Rock, Cena, Undertaker, Triple H and Brock at WrestleMania 29 that's crazy.
- I always said that he was brought back way too fast after WrestleMania 29
- I'm not too sure that Punk got a huge sponsorship but if he did, I could totally see it being given away
- Being hurt by Ryback seems likely since there has been talk about Ryback being unsafe
- The Shield being with Punk was something that I wanted originally, but I prefer it the way it ended up being
- Triple H did indeed stifle Punk's 2011 momentum. Stupid.

That could be your feelings towards it.

The WWE could've gotten the big money main event that The Rock brings in.
CM Punk could've headlined a WrestleMania like he wanted and deserved to do after being the best thing about the WWE in 2012.
John Cena gets to overcome the TWO BIGGEST OBSTACLES that he has faced. Cena overcomes the odds...sounds like something the WWE would love.
You protect the "Once in a Lifetime" feel that WrestleMania 28's match had.

Punk going in at champion would've been huge, but even if he didn't, this would've been the way to do. Seems like it makes sense to me and a lot of others.

Also, for those people that think Punk is a "whiny bitch that left because he didn't get his way"
Punk walked out after the Royal Rumble. During that match he suffered another concussion, came back and was chokeslammed through a table by Kane.

At that time he had two busted knees, had just had surgery, had been on antibiotics since November 2013, and had a growth on his back that the WWE doctor refused to do something about. When he left, he went to the doctor, who ruled it as a STAPH INFECTION the size of a softball, and said he could have died from the combination of sickness, meds and activity.

On top of that, he had asked for the Mania main event for three years, promised it, and they gave it to the part-timer Batista, who just got boo'd out of the building. The year before he worked Undertaker. He worked Brock Lesnar, The Rock, Triple H and other part-timers in major matches at PPV's, but wasn't given the main event spot, so he was paid half of what the other guys were making for similar matches. He worked entire UK tours with concussions. He was brought back 2 weeks after a 4-6 weeks surgery.

He's a human being, he doesn't owe people anything, and if you had half of that **** going on, you would have walked out on your job 10 times before then.

I think it's just stupid people saying Punk didn't deserve to Main Event Wrestlemania. Come on now... CM Punk whether WWE likes it or not is going down as a legend and was misused. Proof? Never seen people chant for a person for almost a year now when the guy's not even there... He really was/is something special.

WWE are bungholes

Punk's an bunghole, but nobody deserves that kind of treatment, especially after giving their bodies to a company that uses them to market and produce a character in order to make money

I hope Punk isn't completely done, and shows up on a one-off show for ROH.

There it goes. You were making sense until that line. CM Punk never expected to be handed anything. The dude worked hard to go from OVW to ECW to the second biggest face in the company. He felt that he deserved a WrestleMania main event, not because it was owed to him but because he earned it. He earned it by being the second biggest face in the company (bigger than Orton, Batista or any other guy they put as the number two behind Cena). The fact that Randy Orton, Batista and THE MIZ got to main event a WrestleMania while he didn't is a bit embarrassing.