CM Punk and Colt Cabana spoke with FightFul.com and expressed their views after the ruling. Here are some excerpts and you can watch their interviews below:
CM Punk:
“I’m happy, I’m relieved. I’m happy for Colt Cabana, my friend, first and foremost. I’m happy for me second. I’ll always protect my friends and family,” Punk told us. “This has been pretty frivolous. I’m shocked it made it this far. I was always confident, because all I had to do is tell the truth. I’m grateful for the jury coming to the correct verdict. Being in court is nerve racking.
I hope it’s all over, and I never have to talk about it again, and hear certain names and certain words. I don’t have to relive me being forced to work through concussions anymore, and people’s testimony about it. We can one hundred percent say it’s one of the happiest days in my life. I’ll always be looking over my shoulder I think.”
I feel good, I look good, I’m not trying to cut a promo or anything. I think in a weird way, this trial made me ultra focused on what I have to do Saturday.”
Colt Cabana:
“I felt confident throughout this whole thing, but my lawyer told me very early, you just never know. A jury could feel this way one day. At the end of the day, the jury came to the right decision, the decision we all felt was obvious. I feel great. It’s all hopefully done, I can get this out of my life. I don’t have a lot of negativity in my life, and this was bringing a lot of stress. It’s the worst. It’s always on your mind, you’re always thinking about it. It’s upsetting that the system takes so long, but you have to deal with it. I remember being 34 when it started. Me being 38, it’s so long that it’s going to be wrapped up.
I never said to myself ‘Have I done something wrong? Have I done something bad?’ I always knew that was Punk’s story and he wanted to tell it, and I didn’t think there was anything wrong with that,” Cabana said.
When he was done with the podcast that we did, all this weight was off his chest. Now it gets sucked right back into it. It’s a court case, all this money. I knew the sense of relief he felt when he was done, so I had a good sense of the relief he felt when he was done with this case.”