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Busted Open

CM Punk Back on Top at SNME

Busted Open

SiriusXM

Wrestling, Njpw, Mark Henry, Wwe, Dave Lagreca, Bully Ray, Aew, Sports News, Nxt, Professional Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer, Sports, News, Leisure, Ring Of Honor

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Hood and Justin LaBar react to CM Punk getting back to the mountain top of WWE winning the World Heavyweight Championship at Saturday Night's Main Event. Plus! They breakdown Jade Cargill's winning her first WWE Women's Title and what's in store for the new champ.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast, along with Justin LaBar. I'm Jonathan Hood.

0:04.3

And on today's show, we discuss CM Punk and his win of the World's Heavyweight Championship against Jay Uso.

0:11.0

This is the Busted Open Podcast.

0:16.0

Salt Lake City, Utah. Yes, Saturday night's main event. If you were in attendance to see the show,

0:21.8

if you watch it at home like Justin and I did, we want to get your reaction to Saturday

0:26.0

night's main event and so much that we've got to get to within the framework of our three hours.

0:29.9

Just keep that phone number in mind, 873444893 is our phone number. Sir, let's start off

0:35.3

talking about CM Punk. What a story about CM Punk, huh?

0:40.0

So he is the champion again defeating Jay Uso, and before the Seth Rollins injury, this was

0:46.4

the destiny for CM Punk to be on top again and being a heavyweight champion. He did it against

0:51.5

Jay Uso, but the punk punk story is incredible. This is full

0:55.3

circle for him. For punk and for punk fans as well. Because, Justin, when you take a look at

1:02.3

CM Punk being away for nine years, away from the wrestling scene, he goes to AEW and becomes

1:09.0

champion and he faces the likes of John Moxley and MJF and Eddie Kingston and Samoa Joe and others, then leaves the AEW, goes back to WWE, and is able to reconcile with Vince McMahon, Triple H, and the rest of the WWE, and not a malcontent, not a bad guy, a guy that's all about suits and smiles.

1:32.0

That's who C.O. Punk is now. It's suit and smile punk.

1:35.3

Because he just wants to be able to wrestle, have fun.

1:38.9

He's got his wife back in the fold, A.J. Lee.

1:41.1

And now he's World Heavyweight Champion.

1:43.0

That's a book in itself, everything we just laid out. Post Punk, the last time he was a WWE champion. It absolutely is. It's going to make for a tremendous book or special on Peacock or ESPN or wherever it gets distributed because yeah you're right that you just

2:03.9

summarize that there's so many roller coasters to it and you know I think it's quite I'm not and I'm

2:10.9

I'm gonna just put this out there now I'm not counting the five minutes that he was champion

2:16.9

months ago before Seth cash in I'm not counting the five minutes that he was champion months ago before Seth Cashin.

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