Following yet another heated face-to-face on the go-home episode of “WWE Raw” before WrestleMania 42, CM Punk’s opponent, Roman Reigns cut a scathing social media promo on the World Heavyweight Champion. With no ring time left to respond, Punk took his comments to the “Tribal Chief” to an ESPN appearance promoting WrestleMania.

On “Get Up,” Punk said he wished that Reigns brought that kind of energy when he decided to show up to work. He said he didn’t want to take anything away from Reigns, as he’s a “tremendous superstar,” a heavyweight with credentials. Punk said Reigns would be a tough fight for him, but he’s not looking to lose on Sunday, and he took a shot at Reigns’ near-perfect smile.

“This is about pro wrestling vs. cinema and I’m glad that he had four days to shower and think about what he would say to me in rebuttal,” Punk said. “And did it in a car when I wasn’t around, but I’m going to be around and in his face on Sunday and I’m going to send him to the orthodontist. I’m going to make his orthodontist a very rich person.”

While Punk has previously stated he considered his night one main event at WrestleMania 41 a “main event,” he’ll finally get to officially close WrestleMania on Sunday. The World Heavyweight Championship match will be the sixth of the night, on a card that includes three other title defenses.

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When Charlotte Flair started to collect WWE titles at a rapid pace throughout the late 2010s, her heel persona was not only garnering a negative reaction on-screen, but also in her personal life. The WWE Universe began to associate Flair’s actions on TV to how she conducted herself as a human being, with many believing she carried the same attitude and personality outside of the ring. However, when “WWE Unreal” premiered last year, the tide started to change for Flair, as she told Katie Nolan that the behind-the-scenes documentary series finally allowed fans to witness the true version of “The Queen.”

“For my character specifically, I feel there was a point where people could not separate the two. So where here I’m thinking I’m playing an incredible bad guy and the best bad guy of all time, people couldn’t be like, ‘Okay, well there’s her and she’s just a bad person.’ So when ‘Unreal’ came out, I didn’t even know really what I was shooting for or what had transpired behind-the-scenes, but it gave people a different perspective of me without me having to give a perspective of who I am as a person. So it’s done wonders … people really thought that I was just that evil witch Charlotte Flair.”

Flair continued to explain that “WWE Unreal” has given her peace of mind and is glad that fans realize she was just being a good heel. Additionally, she’s happy that people had the opportunity to view the human side of her after she had maintained the integrity of her character for nearly a decade.

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