Chavo Guerrero: I Loved Working With CM Punk, I Never Had Any Issues With Him

Chavo Guerrero never had any problems with CM Punk.

Chavo Guerrero never had any issues with CM Punk.

During CM Punk’s rise to stardom in WWE, he was one of the top stars on the ECW brand. He memorably feuded with Chavo Guerrero, who beat him to win the ECW Championship on the January 22, 2008, episode of ECW.

Speaking on Cafe de Rene with Rene Dupree, Guerrero was asked about the story behind him beating CM Punk for the ECW Championship. Guerrero noted that Punk came up with the idea of the two of them working together. He also emphasized that he never had an issue working with Punk.

“That story of me beating CM Punk, so Punk was the champ in ECW. He was very cool, and the reason why we started working is because he went to Vince McMahon and goes, ‘Hey.’ First, he came to me and goes, ‘Hey, Chavo, you want to work a program with me?’ I was like, ‘Hell yes.’ He goes, ‘Eddie was a big influence on me, and I just think that we could do really well.’ So we went to Vince. Vince approved it, liked it. Originally, this is, Chris Jericho told me this, he was pretty high up there. He told me, ‘You know you were supposed to just have a small program with CM Punk, and when it was time to take it off Punk, that were going to put it on Shelton Benjamin. But because you work so well together, they put it on you. It was not the original plan.’ So that’s kind of how that happened. Man, I loved working with Punk. All the stuff going on with him now, I’m not there, I don’t see it. But I had no issues whatsoever when we worked together. We worked together probably two-or-three hundred times, or hundreds of times, a long time, for months and months. We never had a problem. Literally not one issue. We’d call most of it in the ring, we’d go in there and just go for it. It was awesome. I had no issues with him. I wish we’d work again, that’s how much I liked it,” Guerrero said.

AEW terminated Punk’s contract on September 2 after a backstage incident at AEW All In. As of this writing, his future is unclear.

Punk recently sparked some buzz when he made some jokes while on commentary at CFFC. More information is available here.

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