LJ Cleary Reflects on Meeting CM Punk, Reveals His Advice

– During a recent interview with MuscleMan Malcolm, wrestler LJ Cleary recalled meeting WWE Superstar CM Punk and getting advice from the former world champion. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

LJ Cleary on meeting CM Punk at Ace Steel’s school: “I train regularly at The Foundation in Orlando, its Ace Steel’s school. Punk just dropped in, it was pretty surreal, I remember walking in like, ‘Oh, I guess he’s here.’ A couple days before, I put up my graphic saying that I was now based out of Orlando and Punk, who’d I’d never met at this point, shared it. So, first thing I said to him when I saw him was like, ‘Hey, nice to meet you, thank you for sharing my graphic.’ He was just like, ‘Oh, no, if Ace puts the stamp on you, I believe it.'”

On what he took away from the meeting: “I’d say the main thing I took from that day — it gets said a lot, oh it’s not about moves, it’s about the moments. Sometimes that gets just repeated by people who don’t really explain it. But then, you meet someone like him who obviously has a much higher level of understanding of this. Something he said when talking about that was, if I was on Raw tomorrow and I went out and hit a GTS — he was like, I wouldn’t care because it’s not CM Punk hitting it, therefore it just doesn’t have as much value. That was such a good way of putting that it’s not about the moves into perspective, it’s about who’s doing it.”

As noted, LJ Cleary recently took part in a WWE tryout session during SummerSlam Weekend.