Bill Watts explica como lidaria coma situação de CM Punk

O Hall of Fammer da WWE, Bill Watts em entrevista ao Busted Open indicou como lidaria com a situação actual da saída de CM Punk da WWE....

On how he would have handled a situation like CM Punk's walkout: "(Laughs) Well you know, the main thing is that--the only thing you really used to have in wrestling was your word. And so you had to have some character, some principle. And most of the guys did. Long ago, what really disturbed me was sometimes when somebody would walk out, is not just what they did to the promotion and everybody that was there that were supposedly their friends; if they were on top or the people who got them up there. But maybe that they left a motel bill or a hotel bill or owed somebody some money. And then that's them tarnishing the whole business, the whole industry. Finally realizing that I wasn't just passing through but that I owned the promotion, so I wanted to be able to leave it to where it was always highly thought of and highly spoken of. So I designed way back contracts where we required a certain amount of notice. If a guy was on top it was five weeks. And the other thing I did is I paid two weeks late. So I had two weeks of their money. I never used that just out of hand but if somebody did something like that where they walked out in such a childish manner just because they were unhappy. You can be unhappy. I mean that's just part of the game; being unhappy. But the beautiful thing was of course back then was there were so many different options. You could just go to another office and go to work. But you had to--how you left the previous one; that spoke maybe to your principles and your ethics. So we had ways to help offset that and occasionally we had to use it. But most of the guys, they realized their word was their bond. And they realized the industry they were in. They realized people had sacrificed to put them over; to build them up. And so if they really had a thought, they didn't want to leave. And plus you really learn as time goes by not to burn your bridges. You know, you run out of bridges. But in today's world it's a lot different and a lot of the kids don't get that education. They're not around each other like we were. We spent a lot more time around each other. You know the trips back then; most of them made by car. And so there was a lot of time for guys to get to know each other. And then also there were a lot of problems going out that way. A lot of guys that get themselves all--their feelings all hurt on the trip or something and then also we had the guys that always were the greatest card shooters in the world. They could beat everybody in the car. (Laughs) Well they thought they could. There were a lot of things about it but that is so bad. I feel sorry for the guy that did it because what he is doing to people who he claimed were his friends. And certainly I feel sorry for the promotion."