While CM Punk is widely celebrated for his talents on the microphone and in the ring, there's an increasingly interesting narrative growing about his impact in the locker room, with Shane “Hurricane” Helms just the latest member of the promotion to shout out his supportive nature.

Well now fans can add Dijak to the chorus of “Straight Edge Savior” supporters, as in a special interview with WWE Die Woche, he explained how Punk gave him some pretty incredible advice a few months back when the duo were present for an NXT taping at the Performance Center.

“The most influential discussion I've ever had in pro wrestling took place four months ago, or maybe three months ago, and it happened with CM Punk of all people. It was just that random week when he came back, and he came to NXT, and I met him for the first time; then he came to TV the following week. The way TV was structured that week, I think it was TV on Tuesday, and it was pre-taped, and then the next day was to air the following week,” Dijak explained to WWE Die Woche via Fightful.

“So the Tuesday [taping] was to set up the Wednesday [taping], and the Wednesday was the underground match, me and Eddy Thorpe had this underground match where there's no ropes and all this stuff. People probably remember the underground match, but they probably don't remember the setup match the week we had before which was just a quick thing where me and Eddy had a regular match. He threw me into the steps, and you couldn't see it very well on TV, but I started gushing blood. I was kind of trying to hide it because I was afraid that if there was too much blood, people would've came out and stopped the match. The match was so short, but it had a purpose because the purpose was to drive him into the buckle, and the buckle is gonna snap and break. Break the ropes, oh the ropes can't contain them, they need to have a match with no ropes. That was basically the story.”

Whoa, interesting stuff, right? Well wait, it gets even more so, as Dijak had plenty more to say on the subject, including some of the backstage goings on in NXT.

CM Punk believes character is everything.

Continuing his CM Punk story from NXT, Dijak explained why the “Best in the World” believes character is everything and how that helped to make the former T-Bar into something truly special.

“I was bleeding, and I was angry because I took the steps and hit my head. Nothing bad happened but I was — after we did the buckle and I got dragged to the back, I came to back yelling and cursing and angry because I was angry at myself, I wasn't angry at anyone else. I was yelling, and I was upset because I was afraid that I had screwed up the whole thing. I wasn't worried about myself, I was worried about Eddy Thorpe because this was a match that was huge for him. I have had a lot of big matches in my career, it doesn't make or break me to have a NXT Underground match. It does for him, right? This is his big moment. I was afraid I screwed it up for him by smashing my face into something. I thought medical was going to rush over and say, ‘You have a concussion; you can't wrestle.' It's tomorrow, the match is tomorrow because it's a pre-tape,” Dijak explained.

“For whatever reason, CM Punk was there, and we had talked before. I'd asked him for feedback on the Iron Survivor challenge, so we had a bit of a rapport at that point, even tho it had only been a couple of days. He came over to me and he talked to me and calmed me down and said that we'll talk about the match after I get my head taken care of and stuff like that. I talked to him after, and I don't know if he remembers this, but after that, we had the most important conversation that I've ever had in my professional wrestling career, where he just gave me advice on what he thinks it takes to succeed, maybe in pro wrestling in general but specifically WWE. It's something that I had thought about before and internalized before, but I don't know, for some reason, coming from him, coming from a guy that's had so much success based on who he is and what he says and how he approaches this, I'm like, ‘Wow, it means so much more coming from him because I know that this is tested advice.' It's not just someone saying something or someone guessing, it's a code that he's lived by his entire career. No matter how many things he does and how many times he goes off or says something that he shouldn't say, this man is always the topic of discourse amongst the entire professional wrestling industry, how can I not heed this advice.

“The second I took what he said to heart — like my wrestling has always been good, nobody cared really or invested me as a character until the last two or three months, and that's when people are like, ‘Hey, this guy is being himself, and I'm really kind of digging that.' That's the quickest and most simple way to have success in the professional wrestling industry. Not to say that I'm super successful, it's trending now. I'm happy for that because it's always kind of just floated, hey great match. But right now, it feels like people are really starting to gravitate towards me, and they're feeling the social media stuff. When I get in the ring, it's less of like a pre shape or a plan, I'm just going out there.”

With Dijak now officially drafted onto RAW, he's technically on the same roster as Punk for the foreseeable future, where he'll be able to take that advice even further to heart in front of an audience much larger than those assembled weekly to watch NXT. Will it get him over? Only time will tell, but it's safe to say Dijak is better equipped for this run than his last main roster effort.