Ryback Knows How He and CM Punk Started Hating Each Other

08/31/2017 04:19 pm EDT

On a recent episode of Conversations With The Big Guy, Former WWE Superstar, Ryback, opened up about his WWE friends and foes. Citing Rusev as one of his closest pals, Ryback did not hesitate about uncovering his combustible association with former WWE Champion, CM Punk.

Punk and Ryback's disdain for one another is well documented, but the origin of why they don't get along has never truly surfaced. The Big Guy, though, thinks he has a pretty good idea where it all began:

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"After I had been up there are started doing the 'feed me more' chants, Vince [McMahon] took away all my stuff, which I wasn't allowed to do the taunt or anything and I was working heel the whole time."

With Ryback's patented chant taken from him, it was fair game to CM Punk:

"It was taken away from me and everybody in the company knew it was taken away from me, told [to] me not to do it anymore for whatever that whole f--king period was. And he started doing this, 'CM Punk! CM Punk!' trying to do the arm taunt with it, and it was both 'CM Punk' [chant] and 'GTS' [chant], it was both, I believe, but people would do, 'feed me more' when he did it and they would try to and it never caught back on again, but I remember it was just so petty, I thought at that time, and it's not whatever, but it's something that eventually after him doing it again, I was in the locker room. I saw it on the monitor. I had my boots off. I was getting changed and I said, 'f--k this' and went into 'Gorilla' [position] and when he came back there just said, 'I don't appreciate you doing this. That was taken away from me. That was my thing. I got it over' and he was caught off guard with the whole thing, like, 'I was f--king doing that before!' And I go, 'you didn't get it over. I did.' And he wasn't happy. That's when he really started to hate me."

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Now that we have more of the story, it sounds like wrestlers devolve to children quickly. I think I remember having a similar argument with my brother over an old Beanie Baby. As silly as it seems now, their tussle was real enough to spark a genuine dislike for one another that seems to have lasted several years.

CM Punk has been a recurring topic in this young week. Wrestlers seem to be lining up to prognosticate his WWE return or at least share an old memory. Given WWE's history, we can guess that Punk will eventually make his way back to the company. However, when and how that happens is absolutely uncertain.

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