It’s inevitable that whenever WWE returns to Chicago, fans will try to take over a segment by chanting the name of CM Punk – the Chicago native who was unceremoniously fired by WWE in 2014.
Raw commissioner Stephanie McMahon opened the show by coming to the ring, and it took less than five minutes for a round of deafening CM Punk chants to drown her out. McMahon was prepared, though.
Monday Night Raw's Chicago crowd chanted for CM Punk but @StephMcMahon silenced them with a callback to his UFC loss https://t.co/kdUuzUAG9A
— WWE on ESPN (@WWEonESPN) December 27, 2016
Punk, of course, made it just two minutes and 14 seconds in his UFC debut against Mickey Gall.