During an interview with WISX FM SaveFrom.net in Philadelphia, CM Punk was asked who his least favorite opponent in WWE was. He said it was Elijah Burke ("The Pope"
D'Angelo Dinero in TNA), adding the following:
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Good question. I always get who's your favorite opponent. This is great because I enjoy talking trash. My least favorite opponent; does anyone even remember Elijah Burke? Oh, he was terrible. He is absolutely the worst. Absolutely the worst. Talk about a diva. Man oh man, sorry if you liked him."
Burke responds -
May I ask you about the comments that went around from CM Punk about you last year?
Sure. I can go ahead and answer that for you. It’s real simple. When you are in the position that CM Punk is currently in, what can’t you say that is going to generate interest, generate anarchy? The word I’m looking for is create controversy. Whether he meant it? I don’t know, but when you go back – and all the fans that hit me up, and maybe yourself – when you go back and watch our matches we may have had one or two hiccups here and there, because we did all our stuff on the fly for the most part. But to say the comments that were said? I don’t know. It’s not any sweat off my back, because our matches spoke for themselves.
One match that stands out for me, besides the Unforgiven match, was the
2 out 3 falls match in ECW where at the last second we’re told “Hey, Marcus Cor Von isn’t showing up. You’re doing a 2 out of 3 match.” and we go out there and we call it on the fly. I wouldn’t read too much into it – I think it’s Punk being Punk. That’s what he does!