Corey Graves Opens Up About CM Punk Fallout, ‘He Disowned The Business That Made Him.’

June 10, 2018

Corey Graves spoke with Sean Ross of Fightful and opened up about the scathing CM Punk tweets he sent at the conclusion of Punk’s loss to Mike Jackson at UFC 225.

Ross asked Graves whether rumors about Punk giving his friends a ‘leave WWE or lose me as a friend’ ultimatum were true.

Graves responded,

“Well, to be honest, I’d never heard or been given that ultimatum. It kinda shocked me when I texted him about grabbing dinner because we were in Chicago and he told me he no longer had any interest in being friends with me or anybody related to WWE.”

Graves further elaborated,

“I respected his drive and him doing his own thing. He sent me the text shortly before his first fight. Part of me just thought he was in a zone and I didn’t take offense. I texted him the day of his FIRST fight something along the lines of ‘I know life is nuts, I still love you good luck,’ probably not verbatim, but you get the idea.”

Graves then talked about Punk distancing himself from professional wrestling,

“What really set me off was this week when he essentially disowned the business that made him.”

Graves also said that his tweets had nothing to do with the recent Dr. Chris Amann court case,

“Dude, this has ZERO to do with court, or testimony or any of the above. Nothing that I tweeted was corporate I’m simply hurt/pissed off that a guy that I looked like as a big brother-type has turned his back on me and everyone that loved and supported him only because of the name on my paycheck. I’m definitely not the only one. I won’t name names, but there is a large group of us to this day that inexplicably lost a solid friend because of where we work.”

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