{"id":334112,"date":"2026-05-13T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=334112"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:00:31","slug":"the-latest-on-cm-punks-status-amid-wwe-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/the-latest-on-cm-punks-status-amid-wwe-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest On CM Punk&#8217;s Status Amid WWE Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>CM Punk has not appeared on WWE television for the reason that RAW after WrestleMania 42, where he got here face-to-face with Cody Rhodes only one night after losing the World Heavyweight Championship to Roman Reigns. At that time, fans expected WWE to maneuver him straight right into a recent major storyline. As a substitute, Punk has been completely absent from WWE programming ever since, with no on-air explanation given by the corporate.<\/p>\n<p>Punk didn&#8217;t show up for WWE Backlash 2026 weekend and was also missing from the May 11 episode of RAW in Knoxville, Tennessee, whilst WWE began constructing toward each WWE Clash In Italy and Saturday Night\u2019s Foremost Event later this month. There had been speculation online that Punk might appear at Backlash 2026 because the mystery partner for Danhausen, but that never happened.<\/p>\n<p>With only two RAW episodes left before those two pay-per-view events, it looks unlikely that Punk will likely be a part of either show. The following major event after that&#8217;s WWE Night of Champions 2026 in Saudi Arabia on June 27, which takes place just before the corporate shifts its gears up for SummerSlam 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Pwinsider is reporting that Punk continues to be expected to return before SummerSlam 2026, however the growing length of his absence has turn out to be a serious concern for the RAW brand. WWE has offered no timeline and no official reason for why its former World Heavyweight Champion has been kept off television for this long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CM Punk has not appeared on WWE television for the reason that RAW after WrestleMania 42, where he got here face-to-face with Cody Rhodes only one night after losing the World Heavyweight Championship to Roman Reigns. At that time, fans expected WWE to maneuver him straight right into a recent major storyline. As a substitute, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[5646,577,13738,3416,6221],"class_list":["post-334112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-absence","tag-latest","tag-punks","tag-status","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334115,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334112\/revisions\/334115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}