CM Punk: I Have To Deliver A Classic At WWE Bad Blood, I Want To Bring Hell In A Cell Back To What It Was

At WWE Bad Blood, CM Punk and Drew McIntyre will step inside Hell in a Cell for the first time as foes.

Saturday will mark McIntyre’s third Hell in a Cell match. Punk has competed in Hell in a Cell four times (not counting a listed dark match), but hasn’t been inside the cell since 2013. 

Speaking to O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson on No-Contest Wrestling, Punk commented on his mindset going into the match. 

“I’m mentally prepared to where I know what I have to do. It’s a high-pressure situation, and I feel like I have to deliver a classic, and I have to stay true to myself and my beliefs of what good wrestling is, and that Cell, that I feel like as a company, we’ve gotten away from for so long, where it just became a toy. ‘We’re going to have a pay-per-view, call it Hell in a Cell, and everyone is going to go inside and have matches.’ In reality, that should be presented as the most dangerous and diabolical thing that any wrestler would ever want to do. As a business, capitalist country, you get away from it. I want to bring it back to what it’s supposed to be. I don’t want to have a Cell that needs a match, I want to have a match that needs a Cell. I feel me and Drew have done that. There is no other way to settle this,” he said.

WWE turned Hell in a Cell into a PLE/PPV in 2009, making it an annual event until 2022. 

Fans can check out the current lineup for WWE Bad Blood by clicking here. 

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