WWE Chairman Vince McMahon had given creative freedom to former WWE star CM Punk, who had cut a historic pipebomb promo on June 27th, 2011. But Vince had restricted him to some extent. Roman Reigns & Matt Riddle Bombshell Revealed
Vince McMahon wanted CM Punk to keep Kevin Dunn out of it
Punk is now a part of AEW and his promos are not scripted but Vince has control over the promos as they are scripted in WWE. During the Dropping Character podcast CM Punk discussed his famous pipe bomb promo. He revealed that Vince had approved what he was going to say, but he asked him to nix a line about Kevin Dunn in the process.
Punk said:
[Vince McMahon was] like, ‘Write some stuff down and let me approve it’ and I’m not gonna name names but I got with some people who were writers and I started talking about things that I wanted to say and they said, ‘Oh he’s not approving any of this. He’s not gonna want you to mention Brock’ because Brock Lesnar was gone and they had a tumultuous relationship with lawsuits and stuff that I would soon experience myself. You know, so, in my mind, what I did was I immediately just shut down and I went with the flow and I let them write stuff down and hand to Vince and Vince went, ‘Okay, this looks good.’ He gave a couple of notes, some of which I used. One was don’t mention Kevin Dunn who is the guy in the production truck, don’t mention somebody else. ‘Okay’, and then I went out and said whatever the f*ck I wanted.”
Punk also revealed why he wore a “Stone Cold” Steve Austin shirt during that famous promo. He revealed that was the first shirt he saw in the crate that he liked since they didn’t have any CM Punk t-shirts available.
