CM Punk Addresses Complaints About Going Over Time on WWE RAW Netflix Debut

CM Punk and Seth Rollins tore the house down during the January 6th Netflix debut of WWE RAW and now the Second City Saint has addressed complaints his match went over time.

While speaking on My Mom’s Basement, the host Robbie Fox brought up to CM Punk how during his match against Seth Rollins on the first episode of Raw’s Netflix debut, there was a lot of backstage chaos because they went over time, which will be mentioned in WWE: Unreal.

Fox said Punk and Seth Rollins got a lot of heat for it, and mentioned how Abyss was yelling at the monitors and apologizing to Bruce Prichard, saying he was sorry for everything running long.

“It’s funny because in the first episode of the show, you guys get a lot of, I don’t know, you get a lot of guff for going over your time. There’s you and Seth, there’s like a panic backstage. Abyss is screaming at the monitors, apologizing to Bruce Prichard, saying he’s so sorry.”

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CM Punk asked if they were mad at him and said he thought he had hit his time for the Netflix main event. He explained that since it was the first show on Netflix, everyone seemed way too relaxed, almost like they thought they could just go three or four hours because it was streaming. But that wasn’t the case since they had to remind people to stick to their times.

Punk said that keeping the show to the right length is really important to him. He doesn’t want to do anything for three hours, not even watch his favorite movie since there’s always stuff you can cut to tighten things up. He felt like two hours, maybe up to two hours and thirty minutes, is the perfect length.

“Are you mad at me? For what? For what? For the Netflix debut main event. Huh? I thought I hit my time. How about that?

I think because that was the first Netflix show, everybody had this super lackadaisical attitude like we’re on Netflix. They even mentioned that. Everyone thinks we could go three or four hours. We can’t. So we’re trying to tell people, no, no, no, you’ve got to stick to your times.

To me, show length is pretty paramount. I don’t want to do anything for three hours. I don’t care if it’s my favorite movie, it doesn’t need to be three hours. You can always find ways to trim the fat. I think two, two twenty, maybe two thirty is pushing it, that’s the sweet spot for me.”

The Second City Saint honestly believed they finished on time. He remembered Bruce Prichard asking him to make sure they were done by a certain point and he promised it wouldn’t be a problem. Punk even said he cut a ton of material from the match to make sure they got out when they were supposed to.

“I didn’t know, I thought we hit our time because I remember Bruce begging me. He’s like, ‘Get us out at this time.’ And I was like, ‘No problem, man.’ I wound up cutting a ton of stuff.”

The match is still being talked about not just for its in-ring quality, but also for how it’s portrayed in the upcoming WWE series WWE: Unreal, which is expected to give an in-depth look at all the chaos that happened backstage. Regardless, the match was a success and that’s all that matters in the end.

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