8 Things We Learned From CM Punk On Stephanie McMahon's WWE Show

Nobody reading will be shocked to the core by this, or anything, but WWE didn’t mention that CM Punk’s return to wrestling happened elsewhere in 2021. Stephanie’s mini-doc went from showing clips of Punk saying he’d never wrestle again in 2014 and 2018 to Survivor Series 2023. His entire two years (and change) of work in AEW? Erased from history in this timeline.

Being real, anyone thinking they’d run footage of Punk storming out on Rampage needed to realise who was producing this piece! Even so, one would've thought they'd have acknowledged that he worked somewhere else in passing. WWE were never going to name Tony Khan's league, but choosing to casually delete what was a hugely significant landmark occasion in Punk's career will irk some.

Or, maybe you're used to this sort of thing when WWE's fingerprints are on something. A few will be annoyed by it, no doubt, but it's their right to tell the story how they see fit. Punk apparently didn't kick up a fuss about it either, and there's likely something to say for legalities stopping him from discussing AEW at all. He and McMahon were never going to start waxing lyrical about backstage fights with The Young Bucks, were they?

A hasty, 'You returned to wrestling in 2021, but everyone would agree that your WWE return is the moment people really wanted' would've done the trick. That would've put WWE over as number one (which they very much are) and resisted the urge to insult viewer intelligence.

Meh, perhaps this is just one fan looking into things a bit too much.