CM Punk Lays Bare Major John Cena Regret In WWE

CM Punk has expressed his regrets surrounding John Cena that stem from his walking out of WWE in 2014.

In 2014, CM Punk had grown so sick and tired of life in WWE, he walked out of the company on the day after that year’s Royal Rumble. For seven years, Punk was done with wrestling in any meaningful way until he made his debut in AEW.

However, his time in Tony Khan’s company was snakebit, and the highs were very much outweighed by the lows. Punk was fired by AEW after a backstage altercation with Jack Perry, and a few weeks later, fences were magically mended, and he was back in WWE.

During his time back in WWE, CM Punk shared the ring with John Cena once again at Night of Champions as Punk tried to capture the WWE Championship. Cena was successful on that occasion, and it seems that not sharing the ring more with the 17-time world champion is weighing heavily on Punk’s mind.

CM Punk Wishes He’d Done More With John Cena

Speaking to E! News, CM Punk explained how he regrets not being able to do more with John Cena in WWE after he walked out of the company in 2014:

John Cena, I’ve affectionately referred to as my wrestling soulmate. It’s kind of a weird relationship, right? I left WWE in 2014, and I came back in 2024 and in that 10 years, Cena was here, Cena was working. There’s a part of me in my head that regrets stepping out because of what more we could have done. But it makes it so much sweeter that I’m back now, and I was able to come in here and work with him one last time.

Everything about him I’m gonna miss. Me and him had a dynamic that was unlike anything else. He was the goody two-shoes, boy scout, good guy that a lot of places booed out of the building. Then I was this despicable, pointy-goatee, twirling my moustache, tying the girl to the train tracks bad guy, and people seemed to love it. It was just this marriage that unfolded on screen that we both needed at the time.

So to be able to come back and to be able to watch his ride into the sunset means the world to me. What I’m gonna miss the most is everything about him. The ultimate top guy that I think we’ve had in quite some time.

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