Cup feud gets ugly: CM Punk rips Hulk Hogan

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Hulk Hogan. (Michael Short/AP)

Well, that got ugly quick.

Chicago Blackhawks diehard CM Punk — a former professional wrestler and current UFC fighter — tore a strip off wresting icon Hulk Hogan Monday in a promo video hyping up Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Watch as the Chicago native and hockey fanatic rips into Hogan for being a phony Tampa Bay Lightning supporter and butchering the names of Steven Stamkos and Jon Cooper.

“Normally the less said about Hulk Hogan the better, but he spoke my name first. The Tampa Bay organization should be embarrassed for hitching their trailer to such a piece of garbage that pronounced the captain’s name wrong, and then called coach John Cooper ‘John Connor,'” CM Punk screams in the clip.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re in Chicago and we’re real hockey fans and we want the Cup! Tampa Bay’s going down!”

Hogan responded on Twitter:

Here is the original Hulkster clip that prompted CM Punk’s response:

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