There are mild issues between CM Punk and WWE, per Cultaholic reporting on June 26. The specific nature of the issues has not been detailed. The report characterizes them as minor rather than the dramatic scenarios — pay cuts, release demands, or politicking fallout — that were circulated by an unverified X account and subsequently debunked by PWInsider and WrestleVotes.
Per Dave Meltzer in the new Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Punk has been pushing “very hard” for his return to take place on the July 6 episode of Raw in the Chicago area, which is his hometown. He is currently earmarked for the SmackDown brand, and the preference internally is still for him to return there for a program with Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. Whether he makes at least one Raw appearance in Chicago before moving to SmackDown remains unresolved.
