Posted By James Walsh on 07/27/26


n WWE Radio, Undisputed WWE Champion CM Punk said he's proud of what his SummerSlam 2026 opponent Cody Rhodes has achieved:
"I’m very psyched for the match. There’s a huge part of me that, and I think of all wrestlers, maybe in men, maybe it’s a male trait. They don’t want to seem weak. Cody might not want to admit that at some point in time, maybe even currently, he has looked up to me.
I have no problem admitting, no shame in saying I’m proud of where he came from because I think he’s surpassed what I did.
When he came in, I was already here. I got to here, he was here. He did the same thing I did. He left, and he came back a bigger star for it, and then he accomplished things that I never did at that point, and it’s fun to see. It really is."