“It's destiny, really,” Paul Heyman said. “CM Punk is back where he belongs, and that's on top in WWE. Like any other rebel… it's the old song, you have to go through h*ll before you get to heaven, and CM Punk, the struggle is real. He is a rebel,” Heyman declared via WrestleZone.

Paul Heyman said that CM Punk is back where he belongs in WWE, but he had to go through hell to get there. Punk walked out of WWE in 2014. He signed with AEW in 2021 and had a turbulent run there. After he was released in September 2023,