WWE legend Brian James argues with fans over CM Punk comments
As many WWE fans would have noted, CM Punk finally spoke about his WWE departure on Colt Cabana’s Art of Wrestling podcast this week. Many fans took it to twitter to criticize the WWE. Brian “Road Dogg” James, who now works behind-the-scenes for WWE, responded to these multiple fans on Twitter after the interview came out.
Here are some snippets from the tweets exchanges between James and his fans.
After a fan who follows James on Twitter wrote, “f***you Vince. f*** you Hunter.” James responded, “You only hear one side of the story!” After the fan said what Punk revealed about McMahon and Hunter, James said, “I understand that but are you sure you have all of the facts? There are always 2 sides to every story. Just to be clear, I don’t know the truth either! I just know how these stories get told around our industry.”
James had a lengthy exchange with a fan, who kept expressing his unhappiness about CM Punk feeling unhappy and how he was mistreated behind-the-scenes in WWE. This fan wrote to James, “I hope no one else is holding those emotions inside & not speaking up about it.” to which James responded, “It’s crazy but do you always get treated perfectly at work? It’s a team and we need team players, everyone can’t win!”
During the interview, CM Punk was particularly critical of Chris Amann, WWE’s Senior Ringside Physician. Punk said that Amann misdiagnosed and ignored a MRSA infection on his back for months and that the first doctor he went to after leaving WWE was stunned to hear that he wrestled with it and said that he could have died from it. A fan asked James, “Why didn’t the wwe doctors treated his injuries right? Or even the @WWE?” , to which James replied “Can’t even believe you just asked that! We have a trainer and a dr. Talent goes to doc of their choice! Dang?”
Following all these tweets, James stated to his Twitter followers, “Didn’t mean to argue and I’m sorry to those I offended. I’ll just keep quiet on this subject. I’m passionate about the business. I’m sorry.”
You can catch the whole interaction of tweets between Brian “Road Dogg” James and his fans from here.