CM Punk used an old Terry Funk quote to explain his absence from television while returning on commentary for CFFC last night in Rockford, Illinois.

Asked where he’s been since he doesn’t do any CFFC events outside of the state of Illinois and he hasn’t been on TV for weeks, Punk joked by saying, “I don’t travel anymore, my horse is sick!”

Later in the show, Punk said that his horse “Terry” was “doing better.”

The late WWE Hall of Famer used that term when he did an interview with Jim Cornette, explaining it as a way to avoid doing traveling for WWE and to avoid confrontations with Vince McMahon when he didn’t agree with creative.

The story goes that McMahon wanted Funk to be one of Jerry Lawler’s Knights during Lawler’s feud with Bret Hart and he did not want to do it, so he left a note to Vince, saying his horse was sick and had to go back to Texas.

When Funk was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame several years later, McMahon first interaction with Funk was jokingly asking him how his horse was doing!

There have been rumors that not all things between WWE and CM Punk are rosy at the moment and obviously his carefully chosen quote adds more fuel to the fire.