Current WWE Name Addresses Potential CM Punk Return

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A current WWE name has given his thoughts on whether he thinks CM Punk will end up making a return after being fired by AEW.

The belief is that there are many top WWE stars who aren’t in favor of Punk returning, but some who at least recognize it as an opportunity to make money, and ultimately, it’s up to Paul Levesque (Triple H) and Nick Khan, or possibly even Endeavor.

Nonetheless, on the latest episode of his podcast, NXT commentator Booker T was asked about whether Punk will end up returning to WWE. Booker said:

“No. I don’t think so at all, I don’t see that happening.

“Go back and look at some of CM Punk’s quotes about WWE over the last seven/eight years. Nothing, nothing positive.

“My thing was, I always said, you never know when you might wanna cross that bridge again. You just never know. To think that (AEW) might be the company you’re gonna stay at forever, that’s kind of wishful thinking.

“I left WWE, I had problems with WWE when I left, but you’re not gonna see one story out there on the internet as far as ‘Booker T shoot interview about WWE’. ‘Booker T says this about such and such’. ‘Booker T talks about this guy’.

“You know why? Because that’s stuff that I don’t think the public really need to know. I don’t think the public need to be privy to that kind of information, a personal beef that I have with somebody, just because it just might be…

“Just say for instance it’s not WWE, it’s just a construction company, and I didn’t get along with whatever and they ended up firing me. You think I’m gonna go on the internet and talk about ‘x did this and their employees are stealing gas, all got gas carts’, I’m not gonna do that! Because I might wanna go back there and they might wanna rehire me and I might get me a gas cart and I might be using it.

“You gotta be smart, and I just don’t think, when CM Punk left WWE, I just don’t think he was smart about it more than anything. Because I always feel like there’s a road back, but, I think CM Punk may have blown that bridge up.”

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Booker was also asked what Punk was like to work with when they were both on FOX’s WWE Backstage show together. He replied:

“Yeah, he was easy to work with, but he was kind of stand-off-ish. Him and I were acquaintances in the workplace. Co-workers. And we handled business, just like what you said a second ago.

“You don’t really have to like who you’re working with to work with them.

“I don’t think CM Punk looked at me as one of his buddies or anything like that. I’ve never been one of the guys to call CM Punk on the phone, CM Punk and I, we’ve never broken bread or anything like that. It’s one of those deals where I understand and he understands and we both play our roles. And we play our roles to the best of our ability.

“I think on that show, that’s what happened. He didn’t get in my way, I didn’t get in his way, and I think that’s the way it should always be when you’re working in the workplace.

“You could be working at McDonald’s and the guy that’s flipping the burgers and the guy that’s doing the fries, they can’t have beef. They’ve gotta get these orders out.”

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It’s still unknown whether Punk has a non-compete clause to adhere to following his AEW departure.

We’ll keep you posted with any updates.

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