CM Punk Says He Gets ‘Humbled & Emotional’ By WWE NXT Visits

CM Punk has made a number of trips to WWE NXT, and he recently spoke about giving back to the talent there. Punk was asked about working with the young talent at the WWE Performance Center on the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast, and you can see highlights below (per Wrestling Inc):

On his visits to the WWE performance Center: “I go home to my wife just completely humbled and emotional about it. I woke up one day and I was this dude. When kids come up to me and they’re comfortable enough to be like, ‘Hey, look at this,’ and it’s a picture of them when they’re little at an autograph signing and they tell me, ‘Hey, you inspired me to do this.’ It’s just like me getting to tell Roddy Piper, ‘Hey, you’re the reason I did this,’ and I don’t know if it meant anything to [Piper], but it meant something to me to be able to tell him that.”

On trying to make sure talent doesn’t have to go through what he did during his OVW run: “There’s a handful of indies in different places, but if they run once a month, how much experience are you getting?, When I signed and I got shuffled down to Kentucky to go to OVW I was like, ‘I don’t want to be here… The conditions were drastically different than they are now. Like NXT, the way it’s set-up now is just like a sports college program. They have everything in house and they have air conditioning [laughs].”