Posted on 6/27/126 by Colin Vassallo
CM Punk used an old Terry Funk quote to explain his absence
from television while returning on commentary for CFFC last
night in Rockford, Illinois.
Asked where he’s been since he doesn’t do any CFFC events
outside of the state of Illinois and he hasn’t been on TV
for weeks, Punk joked by saying, “I don’t travel anymore, my
horse is sick!”
Later in the show, Punk said that his horse “Terry” was
“doing better.”
The late WWE Hall of Famer used that term when he did an
interview with Jim Cornette, explaining it as a way to avoid
doing traveling for WWE and to avoid confrontations with
Vince McMahon when he didn’t agree with creative.
The story goes that McMahon wanted Funk to be one of Jerry
Lawler’s Knights during Lawler’s feud with Bret Hart and he
did not want to do it, so he left a note to Vince, saying
his horse was sick and had to go back to Texas.
When Funk was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame several
years later, McMahon first interaction with Funk was
jokingly asking him how his horse was doing!
There have been rumors that not all things between WWE and
CM Punk are rosy at the moment and obviously his carefully
chosen quote adds more fuel to the fire.