CM Punk believes he has yet one more hurdle to clear earlier than he’s “over” how his night time ended on the 2024 Royal Rumble.
Punk sat down with Jackie Redmond for a brand new interview forward of the 2025 Royal Rumble. Punk will enter the match this 12 months and appears to redeem himself after he suffered a tricep damage in final 12 months’s match. Regardless of being cleared, CM Punk mentioned he’s unsure he’s completely over what occurred to him. He believes SummerSlam was a giant first step, whereas working WWE’s Christmas weeks reveals was one other. The 2025 Males’s Royal Rumble could possibly be his final one.
“I don’t know if I’m over it 100% but. I believe coming again in a brief period of time, six months, and doing SummerSlam, I believe that was the primary hurdle. Most lately, doing a Christmas loop and wrestling 4 or 5 instances in a row, 5 nights in a row, that was one other hurdle,” CM Punk defined. “I believe the final hurdle, so to talk, is that this 12 months, this Rumble that’s arising. However for the brief time period, I gave myself like a superb eight-minute cry earlier than I referred to as my spouse and advised her, ‘Hey I obtained damage.’”
CM Punk believes the 2025 Royal Rumble is his probability at a “do-over”
Redmond then requested what AJ mentioned after he advised her.
“Simply ‘come dwelling, I’ll deal with you. We’ll recover from it, we’ll get by it.’ That’s what we did, that’s what she does for me. [Jackie says she picks him up] She at all times has my again, yeah.”
Redmond requested Punk what can be totally different if he might do issues otherwise. Punk mentioned he wouldn’t “wave the magic wand” for himself, however sees the 2025 Rumble match as his do-over.
“If I had that magic wand, I wouldn’t wave it. Not for myself. I believe [I would] for different folks in different conditions. However for me, I believe that’s what this coming Royal Rumble represents to me, is I obtained a re-do. I get to do it another time and that’s how I take a look at it. That’s my magic wand.”
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