CM Punk on His Praise of Jey Uso & Pushes Back on Online Criticisms of Uso’s Work
A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured CM Punk as the guest. One of the topics discussed included CM Punk’s praise of Jey Uso and his issues with the criticisms from online wrestling fans over Uso’s work in WWE.
“I use Jey Uso as the number one shining example… I’m battling with John Cena and Jey Uso as who sells more t-shirts on any given night. Everybody’s going crazy for his music. They’re yeeting. They want him to run it back. This dude can go out on TV for 10 minutes and just yeet. But then if you went on the internet, ‘Oh, he’s the worst wrestler alive.’ Is he? Or are you just extremely hyperbolic? Everything nowadays is, ‘This is the best thing ever. This is the worst thing ever. I don’t like it so you have to not like it too…’ like what you like, champion that. I try to stay away from the negativity. Jey Uso is f*cking phenomenal. He is. 100 percent. We just live these lives that are so public that everybody wants to point fingers and laugh if we slip on a banana peel or make a mistake.”
Transcript h/t: Fightful.com
Steve Austin Comments on His Advice to Current Day Wrestlers & How A Lot of People Wished He Didn’t Do “What?” Catchphrase
A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Austin’s thoughts about what advice he would give to current day wrestlers to help improve their wrestling careers.
“Sell. As the business has changed and there’s more time to put together a match, don’t make it look like a dance. Not everything is perfect. Put some struggle in there. Put a little bit of slop in there when slop would be warranted. You ever see Bret Hart deep in a match, maybe 20, 25 minutes and he’s just- he just looks like he’s beat to death. He’s huffing, he’s puffing. He ain’t blown up. That’s him just showing how, fucking tired he is from just exhausting every hit, this look on his face, and he could go all night long, but that’s him just showing you how hard he, this is the toll that it’s taking on him. He’s showing you. So it’s not always such a dance. Everything is just a little- I would love for someone to feel dangerous right now. You know, ‘dang, this guy’s got an edge or this guy’s- I don’t know.’ I might believe this guy, something like that. But to go back to answer your question, sell, learn how to work, learn how to work. Don’t learn how to act. I just, I think there’s a difference between working and acting.”
Austin also gave his thoughts about the origin of his “What?” catchphrase and how a lot of people wish he did not introduce it for wrestling shows.
“Yeah, a lot of people wish I wouldn’t have done that. But it just turned into something to do, because when I turned heel, not everybody wanted me to turn heel, but I was just set on turning heel, because I’ve always liked working heel so much. [That was your call?] Yeah, and I wish Vince would have shot me down, or I wish I felt it in the ring at night. I should have just said, ‘Hey, man, we’re changing this. Watch the stunner.’ And I should have just stunned his ass and never went down that road. But as a means to an end, I was leaving Christian a voicemail and kept saying, What? What? I just turned it into this thing to berate somebody, to belittle somebody as a heel. So I use that as a mechanism to do that as a means to an end, to try to get heat. And that whole attempt was over-trying just to compensate and gain ground on getting heat. I remember Hunter and myself as a Two Man Power Trip just whacking people with chairs. I mean, you know, trying so hard through violence to get heat, which is not always the best way to get heat, and by laying stuff in. It was an interesting period, the heel thing. If I could go back in time, I would not have done it, because I didn’t need to. I think Jim Ross said it best, nobody ever wanted to hate John Wayne. I wasn’t John Wayne, but I was the anti-hero. I got over by being the way I was. So to turn bad, to try to do worse things, I don’t know, just it didn’t work. It wasn’t successful. We got a chance to push the character in different directions, in different dimensions, but I don’t think we were really ringing up the box office doing that.”
Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2
Drew McIntyre Comments on His Three Stages of Hell Match Against Cody Rhodes
Drew McIntyre recently reflected on Twitter about his upcoming Three Stages of Hell match against Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship at this Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Berlin, Germany.
“Friday feels like the biggest match of my career?
All the talk. All the mind games. Everything over the last 2 years means nothing if I leave Germany without the belt.
A new era….
This is it.”
Friday feels like the biggest match of my career?
— Drew (@DMcIntyreWWE) January 6, 2026
All the talk. All the mind games. Everything over the last 2 years means nothing if I leave Germany without the belt.
A new era….
This is it. pic.twitter.com/C5EEGILQKg
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Tony Khan on Health & Safety of Wrestlers in AEW in Response to William Regal’s Neck Injury & Warning to Wrestlers
