Bobby Lashley: CM Punk feeds on fan hate
CM Punk has gotten more than his fair share of heat for attempting to make the transition from pro wrestling to MMA. Bobby Lashley has been there, too.
Bobby Lashley says that CM Punk possibly needs that social media hate to make himself better.
“It’s just that I’m not one of those people to fight the criticism,” Lashley told MMA Fighting. “I don’t go on social media. If somebody has something negative to say, I’m a very — I won’t say introverted, because I’m not introverted — I’m a very just calm person. I don’t move into the negativity and when I get those, I just move past it.”
Lashley thinks CM Punk is the polar opposite. He believes the former WWE star almost embraces that venom and bile from social media trolls and uses it to improve himself.
“I think Punk is one of those guys that needs it,” said Lashley, who meets James Thompson at Bellator 145 on Friday in St. Louis. “He’s one of those ‘f-you’ guys. Like, ‘Oh I can’t do it? Yes I can.’ He feeds on that and I think he uses that to make himself better. I say either shut it off or keep feeding into it. Whatever he feels like works for him.”
Punk went on a rant last month on The MMA Hour against Twitter’s “cesspool of humanity.” He seemed to be at his wick’s end with all the criticism following a shoulder injury that has kept him out of training at Roufusport since August. (Punk began training again this week, according to coach Duke Roufus on Twitter.)
