CM Punk is enjoying his time with WWE after returning to the company in November at the Survivor Series PLE.
WWE planned for him to challenge Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Title at WrestleMania XL. WWE had to nix those plans because Punk suffered a torn triceps during the men’s Royal Rumble Match, which Cody Rhodes won.
Punk has entered into a program with Drew McIntyre, where they’ve been feuding for several months. While speaking on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, Punk discussed his return to WWE.
“I was just like, you know, sometime shoot me times next week, and we’ll get on the phone and like we’ll talk, and wheels just started in motion. You know you’re on the phone with them, and somebody says something about Survivor Series being in Chicago, and you go, ‘Oh, what? Oh, man. Oh we can’t get a deal done in that amount of time.’ But that’s the spot. How eager are both sides?….[I was] as eager as they were….I think when we first started talking, it was just like, ‘Okay, you know the typical Rumble. You come back for the Rumble, right?’ But me being the creative that I am, I was immediately just like, ‘Yeah, I get it, but that’s what you do. That’s what you do with everybody. Everybody gets that.’ And then it was a gift: Survivor Series is in Chicago, and it’s just in three days.”
Punk steps inside Hell in a Cell to battle Drew McIntyre at Bad Blood this Saturday.
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