CM Punk and John Cena know each other very well, as they have a long history. The former disclosed what he told the WWE Champion after he returned last year.
The Cenation Leader announced his retirement plans at the 2024 Money in the Bank event. He and The Second City Saint faced each other at Night of Champions for the coveted title, and for the first time ever, Cena was the heel. He won the bout and retained the title.
During a recent interview with India Today, CM Punk revealed that after John Cena gave his retirement speech last year, he told him that he wanted to be a part of his farewell tour.
“Night Of Champions was a really important night for me personally and professionally and emotionally. Yeah, that’s it (on Cena rivalry). John to me has written his own ticket. John can do whatever he wants. I told him, I think it was a year ago, I saw him for the first time in a while, and he announced in Toronto he was gonna retire and he was gonna do X amount of dates,” said CM Punk.
He added:
“And I immediately I grabbed him and I said, ‘hey I don’t know if I figure into your plans, whatever you want to do, but man, I’m your Huckleberry. To me, selfishly, I wanna be a part of it. So, you want me on commentary for one of your matches, you want me to be a referee, I’ll drive you to the shows, buddy, like, whatever it takes to get me to be a small part of your story because he was such a big part of mine. And yeah, that was it,” said Punk.
CM Punk will challenge for another world title at WWE SummerSlam
The Voice of the Voiceless failed to win the WWE Championship at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia. However, he has the opportunity to win another world title in 10 days. Last week on RAW, he won a gauntlet match and became the no.1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship.
This means CM Punk will face Gunther at SummerSlam. They are both top stars in WWE, but only one of them will walk out with the belt at The Grandest Stage of Them All. It’ll be interesting to see who it’ll be.
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