On today, Solo Sunday News, the real reason for C.M. Punk's W.E. Absence. There's a backstage update on all-ego, Ethan Page. The new AAA general manager is, and a long absent AEW star is expected at double or nothing later today. Hello and welcome to World Culture Wrestling. The Solo Sunday News, myself Andrew Paulard, the solo Sunday news that very much did not nearly get to you today, but I hope you well, I hope you good and I hope your weekend is going as well as possible. And if you are here in the UK, I hope you're enjoying a nice, long, sunny bank holiday weekend, especially if you work in I see. Fair play to Hull City though. Before I go any further, congratulations to Hull. And for certain Middlesbrough fans, watch out for those tigers, isn't it?

Right, starting things off today, and there's a bit of an update on what is going on with C.M. Punk.

Now, C. M. Punk appeared on the Raw after WrestleMania 42. Of course, he was fresh off losing the

World Heavyweight title to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania, and Punk promised course he was fresh off losing the World Heavyweight title to

Roman Reigns at WrestleMania and Punk promised that he was not going anywhere. There was the

tease of something with Cody Rhodes, be that in the near future or maybe something a little

bit further down the line. But since then, CN Punk has not been seen. Actually, that's a lie.

In fact,

he was seen, but he was seen at the Ronda Rousey versus Gina Carano MMA fight for MVP last weekend. Now, of course, that has led to plenty of fan chatter and speculation as to what is going on with CM Punk. I mean, I've even seen some crazy theories out there from some people suggesting that he'd been suspended for that,

that fan altercation during

WrestleMania weekend, you know,

when he knocked the phone out, Even so I've seen some crazy theories out there from some people suggesting that he'd been suspended for that fan

altercation during WrestleMania weekend, you know, when he knocked the phone out of someone's hand as they filmed AJ Lee and Bailey, even though Bailey had told a dude like, stop several times.

Yeah, so some people are going to make up crazy stuff for that and their 2 and 2 equals 457. Or potato in some cases.

Per Fight for Select though, the reason for CN Punk's absence is what is described as a

schedule change.

Now, added to that, false finish has been told that Punk is a waiting creative for his return to TV.

Basically, his schedule and creative plans were changed after W.E. decided to move Gunther

over to Smackdown, and that came after moving Jacob Fartu over to Roar to feud with Roman Raines. So it kind of left, I guess in some ways, kind of left CM Punk as a bit of an odd man out. I mean, this is purely speculation for me, of course, but this also might be tied to those reports that Randy Orton is dealing with a bit but they're a back issue that caused certain creative changes. I mean, namely, meaning that the whole Cody and Autumn program, that's been, as you say, put on hold for now, which was the reason why Gunther's been moved over to Smackdown to feud with Cody. I mean, maybe we were meant to get some CM Punk in Gunther stuff after WrestleMania. I don't know. although to be fair I mean originally on that that roar after restomania very much like we were going to get some C.N. Punk and Gunther stuff after WrestleMania, I don't know. Although, to be fair, I mean, originally on that, that roar after WrestleMania, very much that we were going in the LA Knight and Gunther direction following the, following mania. But either way, Cian Punk is on a bit of a break due to a schedule change. And to be fair, I mean, I said this ahead of time. I kind of expected punk to naturally take a break after WrestleMania 42. A bit like,

my obligatory Brett mentioned, but a bit like Brett Hart after WrestleMania 12, where, you know, you go away for a few months. I know at that point there was uncertainty over, over Brett's future, but they've just kind of go away for a few months, come back refreshed. The crowd's going to be more refreshed for you as well. And I thought maybe Seampunk might do something like that, where it's just go away for a couple of months. We'll bring you back and do something big with you. But then, well then CM Punk got that promo on Raw where it's like, I'm going nowhere. I'm going nowhere. Yeah, I'm not flowing leaving, I guess, essentially. And when you look at the, I mean, the W.E product right now, I mean, they could kind of do with CN Punk. I mean, any wrestling company could kind of do

with CM Punk in their corner. But that's a whole conversation for a whole other day. Now, one person who has not been absent from WDVTV right now, in fact, they got themselves a very, very, very well-earned main roster call up on the raw after WrestleMania 42. That is All-Ego,

Ethan Page. And while he may have come up short on Saturday night's main event last night,

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