Steve Maclin Reveals Plans for Feud with CM Punk Had Punk Signed with TNA in 2023

Pro Wrestling Illustrated held a recent interview with Steve Maclin. One of the topics discussed included Maclin’s thoughts about how TNA Wrestling had plans in place for CM Punk’s first feud to be against him had Punk signed with the company in 2023 after his firing from AEW.

“If you want some behind-the-scenes dirt that nobody knows about, CM Punk, before almost possibly signed with TNA — was coming in and I was gonna be his first challenger, which I found out right as Scott D’Amore was getting let go or was let go. We were having dinner one night and he let me know, ‘Yeah, Punk was gonna almost sign there and then you were gonna be his first challenger.’ I was like, ‘Sh*t!’ That would have been cool. You see his time from coming back into wrestling, what happened at AEW and to even WWE, it just shows the star that he is now and that he’s always kind of been that way… that culture. He’s literally a cult of personality, if you wanna play the cliché to the song but, he just shows the magnitude that he’s one of the last alive superstars.

There were a few times he was behind the scenes in Chicago (for TNA). It was cool to just see him… I’m like, ‘Oh, CM Punk, what’s up, man?’ He’s like, ‘Oh, what’s up Mr. Maclin?’ I was like, ‘Cool. Good to see you.’ Because he was really good to me when I was an extra in WWE and you always hear the horror stories — an extra — when you say hello to people, like, people shun you and stuff but he was very respectful and I never forgot that. That’s always something in wrestling that I never forget is the people that were nice to me on the way up.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com