CM Punk On If He'd Rather Face Steve Austin Or Chris Jericho At WrestleMania

As noted earlier this week, CM Punk recently spoke with ESPN about the new WWE '12 game. He also spoke about how he'd rather see himself and Steve Austin main event WrestleMania next year rather than the Rock and John Cena.

"I would love to poll everybody who is going to order Wrestlemania and ask them, what would you rather see: Would you rather see Cena/Rock or Stone Cold/CM Punk? I'm biased, obviously, but I think we'd have a landslide victory," said Punk. "It's up to Steve, really, but he's certainly not going to do it this year. Honestly, if Steve Austin comes back to wrestling, he should be the main event of Wrestlemania, but he can't right now, because Dwayne is. I think Dwayne would get a little bit hurt if Steve took his Mania spot, but then at least Dwayne would understand how the rest of us feel. So I know that's not going to happen this year, but I would love for it to happen next year. I don't want to say it's a goal of mine, but it's definitely something that would be challenging and fun to do. I think Austin was the best worker for many, many, many, many, many years, and that's even pre-Stone Cold. 'Stunning' Steve Austin was amazing."

Punk was also asked if he'd rather face Austin or Chris Jericho at the big event.

"To me, this is the $65,000 question ... or is it $64,000? It's tough to tell with inflation. Anyway, that's the thing, I guess I've finally broken through and now I'm this newly minted main event, top WWE wrestler and everybody is wondering what I'm doing for Wrestlemania. This has been the story of my life. Every year leading up to Wrestlemania, I don't even know if I'm going to be on the show. I remember I had to pitch in order to get me and Rey [Mysterio] for Wrestlemania. It's not like they were coming to me, so I went to Rey, asked him if he knew what he was doing, and came to him with my idea. He loved it, so we ran with it. So every year, I'm sitting here crossing my fingers that I'm in Wrestlemania. Even last year, I was on Wrestlemania because Randy [Orton] needed somebody to wrestle, let's be honest. This is the first year where it really seems like, oh crap, we actually have to do something with Punk at Wrestlemania and it has to be high-caliber, it has to be big.

"So who am I going to wrestle? I don't know. I get a lot of, 'You should wrestle Undertaker.' I would love to. That would kick ass. He is one of my favorite guys to work with. I get a lot of, 'It's going to be you and Jericho,' but you know what, he doesn't work here. Obviously, he could come back between now and then, but who knows."

You can check out the full interview by clicking here.

Source: ESPN