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Cabana (Scott Colton) has filed a lawsuit against CM Punk (Phil Brooks) over
legal fees from Dr. Chris Amann's defamation suit against them. The Chicago
Sun-Times reported that Cabana is suing Punk for breach of contract and fraud.
Cabana says that Punk sent him a text saying he would be "100% covered" in the
suit. Cabana is seeking $200,000 in general damages and $1 million in punitive
damages. Cabana claims that Punk telling him that he would be covered is the
reason that he didn't respond to the letter he was sent by Amann's lawyer
demanding that he take down the November 2014 episode of the Art of Wrestling
podcast that Punk appeared on. The letter also demanded that Cabana issue a
retraction for Punk's comments about the lack of care he received from Amann
while in WWE. It is mentioned in Cabana's lawsuit that he and Punk employed the
firm Loeb & Loeb to defend them in March 2015, with an agreement saying that it
was understood that Punk would be responsible for paying for the fees. The suit
contains the following e-mail from Punk to Cabana in April 2016: "To date I have
spent $513,736 dollars on this Amman lawsuit. My outstanding current bill is at
least 300k. Half of all this is yours. Divide the 513,736 by 2 and that is what
you owe me and what I expect you to pay me. Starting now I will no longer be
paying your bills. You are on your own. Whatever my bill is currently, will be
cut in half, and half will be yours. If you choose to make this all ugly, that's
fine too. I hope you won't, but I gave up on you doing what is right a long time
ago." Cabana told the law firm that he would hire and pay for his own lawyers
but says they came to an agreement for them to continue representing both Punk
and Cabana with Punk covering the fees going forward. Loeb & Loeb then removed
themselves as Cabana's counsel in March 2017. Cabana thinks that Punk ordered
them to. So he hired Carey Stein of Ashman & Stein to represent him. Once the
trial was over Cabana's lawyer told Punk that he was looking to be reimbursed
for the $200,000 in fees but Punk’s lawyers told him that Punk refuses to do so.
On a recent Art of Wrestling podcast, Cabana briefly talked about the lawsuit
without mentioning it or Punk. He told listeners that he as stressed out when
the news got out but now he just wants it to be over. Cabana denied the rumors
that him being backstage at a WWE show ended his friendship with Punk since he
hasn’t been backstage at WWE since doing a podcast in 2013. |
