Just to go with this Meltzer kind of alluded to this last week where the drama with Ounk may not have been as big as some have made it out to be but because some blame Punk for the Cabana situation it had to be addressed.
I don’t want to be a Punk apologist (even though I can come across that way since he’s one of my, I dunno, top 2 or 3 of all time?) but let’s be honest here….
Take the Cabana stuff out of the equation and if there was the skeleton of a rumor that something happened backstage and Punk’s name gets attached to it people are gonna run with it and make it out to be the biggest controversy ever because Punk is “such an asshole, it must be true!”
Like you could literally have THIS scenario (a totally fictional scenario so please, aggregators if your out there don’t run with this)
*Punk turns from catering table, fresh cup of hot coffee in his hand*
*Hangman is distracted by something, bumps into Punk, causing some of this lava like liquid to splash onto punks hand*
“SONOFABITCH!!!” - Punk exclaims at the shock of suddenly having his hand melted off
“Ah Damnit….I’m sorry, man. I didn’t see you there. You ok??” - Hangman (while grabbing napkins to sop up the scaling liquid)
“f*** that hurts!….it’s cool, Hanger…i’ll live. Just shocked me is all” -Punk
*the two go their separate ways; with Hanger asking one more time if Punk is ok*
Stooge runs to FigureRajahSideFour Seats Newsletter and relays this story….
An hour later on Twitter;
“EXCLUSIVE! PUNK AND HANGMAN IN SHOUTING MATCH BACKSTAGE! HANGMAN THREW COFFEE AT PUNK”
…and we’re off to the races from there.