Earlier this month, AJ Lee made her long-awaited return to WWE to provide her husband, CM Punk, some backup in his feud with World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and Women's Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch.
Punk and Lee will face The Vision duo at this weekend's Wrestlepalooza PLE, and the Best in the World is positively buzzing to be sharing the ring with the woman he loves.
"I’m having the time of my life," Punk admitted. "I’m like the uber-nerdiest wife guy. I always like to say I try to spend as much time with my wife as I can, and I spend a lot of time with her. And it never feels like it’s enough. So having her be back in this environment with me at work is like a dream come true."
"She’s inspirational, honestly," he continued. "Her willpower, a lot of that’s diet. But she’s also super strong in the gym and she’s, like, lifting heavy weights and busting her ass all the time."
Rollins and Lynch are also married, and this feud is gearing up to be the culmination of a rivalry between Punk and the World Heavyweight Champion that started when the Second City Saint returned to WWE in 2023.
It's widely believed that there's no love lost between Punk and Rollins outside the ring, and he went on to explain why you don't need to be friends with someone to still deliver magic inside the squared circle.
"I’m not going out to dinner with anybody. That’s the magic of our business, too. If you’re a true professional, you don’t have to even remotely like the guy you work with," Punk stated. "The business is built on trust. If somebody is going to try and double-cross me, that’s a whole different problem, but I work with professionals who aren’t going to do that."
"I think they do realize, if they do that, there’s going to be some sort of a problem," he said in a not-so-veiled reference to his time in AEW. "I’m not going out to dinner with these guys. Some of them don’t like me. Some of them, I don’t care for. That’s the magic and the line we get to weave in and out."
On a lighter note, Punk couldn't help but poke fun at the undeniably daft name for this weekend's Wrestlepalooza PLE. "We’re trying to get everybody aware that you gotta get ESPN to see all our PLEs and I’ve been doing my best to not say the word Wrestlepalooza the entire time," he said with a laugh. "That might actually be the first time I’ve said it. It’s a ridiculous name."
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