CM Punk Vs. Will Ospreay In 2021?

Could we see CM Punk vs. Will Ospreay later this year?

by Andrew Pollard
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While many a wrestling fans longs for CM Punk to step back into the squared circle, the Second City Saint has added further fuel to the fire that we could see him step out of retirement to face Will Ospreay.

Earlier this month, Ospreay – who was fresh off winning the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – called out both CM Punk and Drew McIntyre. And now, Punk has responded to the Aerial Assassin’s challenge.

Currently promoting new horror movie Jakob’s Wife, the Straight-Edge Superstar teased a match-up with Osprey during an interview with Digital Spy.

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As the Chicago native explained:

“I don’t want to give people false hope in answering Ospreay, but he’s for sure somebody that I’ve never wrestled before that interests me a lot more than, I guess, the corporate side of professional wrestling nowadays. New and different things are going to interest me more than doing the same old, same old. I always need new goals. I don’t know, let’s see if he has it [the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship] at the end of the summer and then ask me the question again.”

Whether this leads anywhere, we’ll have to wait and see. One thing’s for certain, though – Punk vs. Ospreay is something that many a wrestling fan would be hugely excited to see.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.