CM Punk says main eventing WrestleMania may be the very reason he returned to WWE. Punk returned to WWE at Survivor Series 2023, marking his first appearance with the company in nearly a decade. In an interview with WWE Now, recorded around the release of WWE 2K26, Punk was asked whether the WrestleMania main event would satisfy the younger version of himself.
“You know, satisfy, I don’t know if it’s the word, but it might be dangerous because, yeah, because if you think about this, if I main evented WrestleMania before I left, I don’t think I would have come back because I would have done it. What am I coming back for?” Punk said.
Punk also reflected on his main event appearance at last year’s WrestleMania, describing a moment after the match that stuck with him. Punk vs. Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns headlined WrestleMania 41 – Night 1.
“It’s just one of those things. I did it last year, and there’s that moment in Unreal where there’s always cameras on us, but I didn’t know they were shooting me at that moment. That moment was just me standing in the ring after the fact. I didn’t win, and it’s far beyond being about that, and I was just standing in the ring by myself, and I was just looking at like all four sides of the crowd and like people. I could tell there’s people from numerous different countries, and I’m just kind of like looking around all four sides, just like soaking it in. Well, if this is the last time I’m ever going to be in a ring. I did it,” Punk said.
Punk will return to the WrestleMania main event this year, defending the World Title against Reigns on night two on April 19.
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