CM Punk Being Sued Again

[Jack-Hammer]

It's been reported that good ol' Phil Brooks, BKA CM Punk, might be heading back to court soon as former best friend Scott Colton, BKA Colt Cabana, has filed suit against him for fraud and breach of contract.

Cabana's suit alleges that Punk promised to help him out with the legal bills from the defamation suit. Colt claims Punk told him that he would be "100% covered" in a text message. Punk has allegedly failed to keep that promise and Colt now has unpaid legal bills totaling $513,736. Punk asked Colt to pay half of the legal fees, which would be $256,868, allegedly saying, "You are on your own." An email Punk allegedly sent to Cabana stated:

"To date I have spent $513,736 dollars on this Amman lawsuit. My outstanding current bill is a t least 300k. Half of all this is yours. Divide the 513,736 by 2 and that is what you owe me and what I expect you to pay me. Starting now I will no longer be paying your bills. You are on your own. Whatever my bill is currently, will be cut in half, and half will be yours. If you choose to make this all ugly, that's fine too. I hope you won't, but I gave up on you doing what is right a long time ago."

Cabana's lawsuit claims that "Brooks acted with fraud, malice and oppression towards Colton, with the deliberate intention of causing Colton harm."

Cabana is asking for $200K in general damages, plus $1 million in punitive and exemplary damages, at least that's all that's been reported by the Chicago Sun-Times as of this afternoon.

Well, I guess this confirms that Punk and Cabana really aren't friends anymore. They had some kind of falling out back in 2016, I don't remember the cause, but claimed to have reconciled before the trial began though Cabana, in an interview he gave after the trial was over kinda sorta hesitated when asked if he and Punk were friends, though he said they were cordial.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

I read this earlier. It must be hard to go against your best friend like that. Any chance this actually makes it rounds to court?

[Yaz]

The falling out in 2016 was because Colt was still talking to WWE guys on a friendly basis, and that offended Punk, who feels he is clearly the center of the universe. Like at this point, fuck CM Punk. I can understand a lot of his abrasiveness. When you are on the road year round and getting into airports 3am, it is reasonable that you don't want to be bothered by people hanging out at the airport for the express purpose of getting an autograph. Being this big of a cock bag 24/7 is inexcusable.

When the original podcast that Colt posted went up, Colt did his best to avoid speaking ill of anyone. Punk went off, on everyone, but Colt was mostly just there to let his friend speak his mind. When the doctor threatened the lawsuit, WWE told Colt if he took the podcast down, they would leave him alone. Colt chose to stand by his friend and do what he thought was right. Now, that same friend, has left Colt, a man who didn't make the WWE money that Punk did, out in the wind.

Defend it all you want by saying that Punk had a rough life, but plenty of people who live a rough life don't turn into self centered, egotistical assholes, who screw everyone over and take themselves too seriously. He has gone off on everyone from Kevin Owens to Hornswaggle for things he felt they did wrong, but in the end he only looked like an asshole.

Corey Graves said it best, If you have a back, CM Punk has a knife.

[Jack-Hammer]

The falling out in 2016 was because Colt was still talking to WWE guys on a friendly basis, and that offended Punk, who feels he is clearly the center of the universe. Like at this point, fuck CM Punk. I can understand a lot of his abrasiveness. When you are on the road year round and getting into airports 3am, it is reasonable that you don't want to be bothered by people hanging out at the airport for the express purpose of getting an autograph. Being this big of a cock bag 24/7 is inexcusable.

When the original podcast that Colt posted went up, Colt did his best to avoid speaking ill of anyone. Punk went off, on everyone, but Colt was mostly just there to let his friend speak his mind. When the doctor threatened the lawsuit, WWE told Colt if he took the podcast down, they would leave him alone. Colt chose to stand by his friend and do what he thought was right. Now, that same friend, has left Colt, a man who didn't make the WWE money that Punk did, out in the wind.

Defend it all you want by saying that Punk had a rough life, but plenty of people who live a rough life don't turn into self centered, egotistical assholes, who screw everyone over and take themselves too seriously. He has gone off on everyone from Kevin Owens to Hornswaggle for things he felt they did wrong, but in the end he only looked like an asshole.

Corey Graves said it best, If you have a back, CM Punk has a knife.

I've pretty much lost all respect towards Punk since leaving WWE. It's not because he's left the WWE, you should leave if you're miserable, but it's just all the things that've come out about him in the years he left.

Regarding leaving WWE, if there was anyone who had less of a right to complain about how he was being used/treated, it's Punk. He was making millions of dollars, was the longest reigning singles champion of any kind that WWE had for a generation and was consistently used, booked and touted as one of the top stars in the company. However, that wasn't enough as he allegedly wanted the "John Cena push" despite the fact that he was always confrontational and antagonistic backstage to almost everyone, never showed any real loyalty to the WWE brand and not having John Cena's work ethic. What respect I did have for his position lie in his protests against the part timers coming in, showing up a small handful of times a year, using their name & recognition to get paid a small fortune for it and take prime spots on the biggest shows of the year and ultimately taking spots from guys who worked round the clock all year, etc.. Punk obliterated that respect by signing with the UFC despite a complete lack of MMA experience. Punk doesn't mind taking someone else's spot, someone who works his ass off training for years or to use his name and past WWE accomplishments to sign up for six figure fights in the UFC; it's even worse in Punk's case as he's shown the two times he's fought that he's like a fish out of water and there are legitimately talented fighters who can't get the UFC to give them the time of day. Punk doesn't mind bigfooting as long as he's the one doing it.

As far as the lawsuit with Dr. Amann, Amann should've simply stuck to suing for slander instead of for lost wages because it didn't really make sense. Punk's claims could have legitimately caused damage to his professional reputation but the lost wages thing didn't hold up considering he was still working for WWE. It probably hurt Amann in the eyes of the jury, so yeah, he should've just sued based on the potential damage to his reputation.

Regarding his situation with Colt Cabana, I didn't know that Punk was so vindictive that he'd pretty much sever ties with Cabana just for him visiting with friends who happen to work for WWE. To be honest, that sounds more like something I'd expect from some of the higher ups in WWE rather than Punk. I've read that Dave Meltzer is stirring up the conspiracy theorists by stating that the falling out beween them is something WWE had hoped would happen all along, only that it happened too late to help Amann in his lawsuit.

WWE is the big ol' corporate entity, which means the company is often cast in the light/role of being villainous as corporations often do utilize tactics that seem to regular, workaday dicks like the rest of us as being underhanded, which is probably true in some cases. Punk just continues to tarnish himself and now he pretty much has only the hardest of hardcore fans still standing with him. His professional reputation is in the trash, his MMA career is one of the biggest jokes in all of pro sports and he's tossed his best friend & consistently biggest supporter to the wolves knowing good and damn well that Cabana probably can't pay those legal fees.

[BaconBits]

It's hilarious to me that there's still a pretty large percentage of fans who like CM Punk, when it's been obvious for years that he's a delusional prick who legitimately thinks he's above everybody else.

[BestSportsEntertainer]

I'm disliking Punk more and more each day. Seriously be more thankful for what you have and who you have.

[Alex]

Honestly I think Punk is becoming ultra paranoid in regards to WWE. He probably thinks WWE are out to get him or something to that effect and thinks a lot of people he knows are in on it. Kind of sad really

[EnviousDominous]

The tables have turned on CM Punk.

He won his lawsuit against Dr. Amann, and now it turns out that he falsely implied to Colt that he would cover his legal fees.

Suddenly the BEST IN THE WORLD doesn't seem that likeable. His foray into the UFC made him and every other prowrestler look like a joke, he got a clean win over all three members of The Shield and was recently eaten for breakfast by an unremarkable fighter named Mike Jackson.

The WWE would do good to avoid letting wrestlers get it into their head that they're bigger than the promotion that markets them.

[BestSportsEntertainer]

The WWE would do good to avoid letting wrestlers get it into their head that they're bigger than the promotion that markets them.

Punk thinks ways too highly of himself, but he does know he's not bigger than WWE. In his pipebomb, he said he's just a spoke on the wheel, and WWE will keep turning long after he's gone.

[DNA 2.0]

I lost every bit of respect when I read that he started crying in the court.

I mean c'mon just fucking idiot. It clearly showed me that this guy is just a playing. Trying to act like a fucking victim. It's been 4 years and a fucking doctor that you always hated, doesn't give you your medicine or doesn't take care of you, and THIS still makes you cry 4 years later???? I mean you must be seriously banged in the freaking head to act like that, on a public court for something like this.

I knew Punk was an ego-maniac for the way he walked out on his CONTRACT and I kinda sympathized with him back then, but now.. c'mon...