CM Punk shocked the professional wrestling world when he appeared on the finish of Survivor Collection in 2023. It was his first WWE look in a decade after a fallout with the corporate.
Except for an premature triceps harm that put him on the shelf for a number of months, Punk’s impression on the subsequent crop of expertise has been palpable.
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CM Punk enters the Hell within the Cell ring to face off in opposition to Drew Mclntyre throughout Monday Night time RAW on the Ford Heart on September 30, 2024, in Evansville, Ind. (WWE/Getty Photographs)
WWE NXT star Roxanne Perez posted a number of photographs of herself with Punk as she’s sought the celebrity’s mentorship since he returned. She instructed Fox Information Digital about what it’s like having him.
“It’s superior. The ‘Greatest within the World’ isn’t only a moniker. He is likely one of the greatest on this planet,” she mentioned. “So, to have him as a mentor and to have there at NXT, it’s cool. And he doesn’t have to try this. He doesn’t should fly himself out and are available watch our matches, and he’s standing there in (Gorilla Place) each single time a match ends, and he’s there telling them suggestions.
“It’s simply nice. It’s nice having him there.”
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CM Punk makes his option to the ring throughout Monday Night time RAW at Intuit Dome on January 6, 2025, in Inglewood, Calif. (WWE/Getty Photographs)
Punk confirmed up on NXT’s present in September, and Perez, when she was nonetheless the NXT girls’s champion, had an opportunity to drop her personal “pipe bomb” on him.
“That was superior,” she mentioned. “I believe that’s one other factor that positively solidified me as what I say I’m. I used to be in a position to step in with the very best on this planet, among the best promos on this planet, and I acquired him just a little silent, I believe.”
Perez can be trying to change into a three-time NXT girls’s champion at Vengeance Day. She can be in a deadly four-way match in opposition to defending champion Giulia, Bayley and Cora Jade.
Roxanne Perez (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Photographs)
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