CM Punk addresses chances of WWE return and admits Triple H would be ‘biggest comeback match’

CM Punk has commented on the possibility of returning to wrestling and admits Triple H would be his ‘biggest’ comeback match in WWE.

The former world champion – who left the company acrimoniously back in 2014 and spent a long time denying any desire to get back in the ring – has softened his stance in recent years, and admitted there’s a chance something could happen one day.

He told Uproxx: ‘I think the right combination could maybe be figured out, but it’s also not for me to figure out. It’s not my world anymore. I’m certainly not Hulk Hogan, where I’m going to show up somewhere and like, “No, this is how it’s going to be.”

‘The wrestling world doesn’t necessarily need CM Punk and that’s absolutely fine. Everyone seems to be doing great.

‘I don’t know, it’s like flavours of ice cream. I walk into an ice cream shop one time and I’m like, “Oh, that seems like a good flavour. Give me two scoops of that.” It’s just gotta be the right time, right place, right situation.’

Punk also addressed the possibilities in terms of storylines and opponents if he did make a return, pointing to Kenny Omega in AEW and Triple H in WWE.

‘From a creative mind standpoint, stepping back and looking at the landscape of everything, there are people in WWE that I have wrestled before that maybe, in a certain situation could be interesting,’ he admitted.

‘There’s also the business side of things. What’s the biggest possible match for CM Punk? I think there’s Kenny Omega on the one side. And, you know, unfortunately, ironically enough, for me to go back to WWE, who’s the biggest match for me?

‘It’s probably Triple H. That’s ironic because it’s nothing I’m interested in. It’s just what it is. Am I going to be a businessman and say that’s the match, that’s the big-money match? Well, it’s not my money, so it’s not for me to say.’

The AGE-year-old star has come a long way from insisting there was no chance of him stepping between the ropes again, and indeed he’s done just that this year during filming for Stephen Amell’s upcoming drama Heel.

Although he’s made it clear he doesn’t watch any weekly programming at this stage, his friend and former WWE Backstage co-host Renee Paquette recently suggested the ‘passion’ is still there.

She exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘I think it would be an absolute shame if he did not come back. Like you said, that passion is still there! He’s a wrestler! He is a wrestler through and through.

‘Whether he was busy doing movies or TV shows or other aspirations that he has, I think at the end of the day wrestling is the thing that makes that guy tick.

‘I think for him to not come back in some capacity, whatever creative he ends up working out that he really wants to do – I think ultimately, that that’s what it would come down to for him, is finding that great creative.’

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