Punk reportedly told Triple H, "With all due respect, I do not need to wrestle you. You need to wrestle me. I do not want to wrestle you. I seriously resent you for not putting me over three years ago when you should have. That would've been best for business. But you had to come in and squash it... I'm in a position now where I can tell you that I don't have to, nor do I want to wrestle you."

He told Cabana in the interview, "I don't care if I was supposed to win (which I was). I didn't care. I didn't want to give him the fucking privilege."