They have allegiances on both sides of the Old Firm and are eager to make that known to the public.
A Celtic and Rangers-supporting pair of WWE rivals have been left fighting Old Firm-fueled barbs.
CM Punk was in Glasgow this week for the brand’s Monday Night Raw broadcast, as the buildup to WrestleMania continues. Last year, he earned the adoration of Celtic fans during a dispute with Scottish wrestler Drew McIntyre, a Rangers fan, by showing up to a news conference in Celtic colours and teasing his opponent.
Celtic has brought him back to Glasgow for an all-access tour of Parkhead. And, as he stood with the Premiership trophy Celtic are on track to retain at the expense of Rangers on X, Punk joked, “I gotta send this picture to Drew.”
CM Punk has Celtic dream
However, new celebrity fan Punk considers himself more than simply a casual watcher. He hopes to return to Celtic Park one day and see a game at a stadium known around the world for its electrifying atmosphere.
He told Celtic TV: “It’s beautiful. It’s gorgeous. Everything’s green – the seats are green, everything’s beautiful. I’m excited to get in and see the trophies, the history, and learn more about the legendary players. This means a lot to me. We travel all over the world, and people ask what we see – I don’t really see a lot, but I see the people. Glasgow’s always been one of the funner places for me.
“I want to stay longer. I want to eat the food, I want to hang out with the locals. Coming to a game would be a dream come true. I just think the history of Celtic, as much as I’ve tried to do a deep dive into it, being an ignorant American newbie, we call it soccer. It’s football. It’s the first thing that jumps off the page for me, is the colours. I’m Irish, so green is probably my second favourite colour, next to red. Just the history of the team, reading up on it, the rivalry between Rangers, Celtic.
“American sports go back, especially baseball, but I think football in Europe has such a longer history and stuff like that. It’s cool to see a lot of the similarities between football and my favourite sport, hockey. A lot of similarities, a lot of differences, but there’s just so much history here. And if 60,000 people are coming every game to see something, I want to know what that’s about. So I just try to do as much research as I possibly can.”
Drew McIntyre talks over CM Punk rivalrly
The legendary Rangers fan, on the other hand, was not going to take Punk’s comments about him lightly. He spoke about CM Punk via Untapped: There are serious difficulties. I honestly can’t stand him, but we’re professionals. It goes back to my first run and what transpired. Just take the time to look into my and CM Punk’s histories, as well as the stories that have been written about us, and try to figure out who is the good man and who is bad.
“And who is telling the truth and who is lying. But our audience love him he is like a Charles Manson-type character he is so convincing. They still cheer for him especially the American audiences. That is what makes it interesting. “I have knocked guys out hitting them less hard than I have hit guys I don’t like in wrestling matches!”
