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News - Real Reason CM Punk Was Pulled From WWE European Tour

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🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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On Today's wrestling news:

0:00 Real Reason CM Punk Was Pulled From WWE European Tour

1:48 Road Dogg wants one more New Age Outlaws match

3:40 What's next for released WWE star?

6:05 The WrestleMania 37 main event was almost VERY different


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0:00.0

On today's wrestling news, the real reason CM Punk was removed from the WWE European tour.

0:05.0

Road Dog wants one more New Age Outlaws match. What's next for this released WWE star?

0:10.0

And the WrestleMania 37 main event could have been very, very different.

0:14.0

Hello and welcome to the Saturday News. I am Phil Chambers and not joined by Gareth Morgan because he's off this week, but we'll be back to normality at some point in the future, who knows.

0:23.3

But first up, the real reason C.M. Punk was removed from the WW European tour.

0:29.6

Well, this is coming from Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer newsletter, and apparently

0:33.2

it's nothing serious, according to him. It is nothing more, apparently, than a scheduling change.

0:39.7

Now, he is still listed for all of the TV around that time, including the TV, the raw TV taping

0:46.0

in London in the O2 Arena during that European tour, which is the go-home show for Night of Champions.

0:53.2

It's just the house show loop part of it that he won't be on.

0:58.0

He's still listed for TV in May, missing a couple in the beginning of June,

1:02.0

but for the rest of June and then the rest of July,

1:05.0

he's still scheduled for raw TV tapings throughout TV in the US and in that one in the UK.

1:10.0

So he'll still be around and it's, yeah, nothing more serious than just a scheduling change in general.

1:15.6

So whether this is something that like come up that punk can't make it to the European house show loop or something that W.W.

1:23.6

Have decided who the hell knows?

1:25.6

But apparently it's not too serious and it's, yeah, there's nothing else going on behind the scenes, at least according to Dave Meltzer.

1:32.9

So hopefully that means just we'll get Sienpunk back on TV at some point soon.

1:37.0

And all kind of normal service will be resumed.

1:40.2

But we'll have to wait and see what that looks like.

1:42.4

Obviously, we're not seen him since the war after WrestleMania.

1:48.0

But yeah, definitely ready to get Sien Punk back on the TV.

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