Rikishi was surprised.
On the November 22 episode of WWE SmackDown, Paul Heyman returned and revealed that CM Punk would be the fifth member of the OG Bloodline's team šfor WarGames.
Speaking on his , Rikishi commentšøed on CM Punk teaming up with the ź§ OG Bloodline.
"I donāt know. I mean, really? CM Punk? I didnāt see that coming a mile away, I really didnāt. I donāt know. With Paul being out and that phone call from Roman calling Paul, he didnāt pick up, I would have probably thought that it would have been somebody like Brock Lesnar. I donāt know. With CM Punk, heās just such a big asset to the company as far as being able to help draw people to the arenas and the pay-per-view. I just kind of seen CM Punk off by himself. Iām speaking as a promoter vibe. To put my best hitters out there to be able to sell this thing, and numbers, Iām a numbers guy. Then Iām just thinking, wow, it just fits, if in case, where was Paul at? Then out comes Brock Lesnar. So this caught me off-guard with CM Punk. I donāt know. Maybe now, itās hard to say because I felt when Sami kicked Roman in the mouth, possibly something could turn out from there. But now we got CM Punk. CM Punk is obviously a bigger name as far as than Sami, I feel. Samiās a good worker, not knocking him, but main event status, if you wanted to sell something could possibly come out of this thing here with CM Punk up against Roman, or who knows? Maybe CM Punk might be starting his own faction," Rikishi said.
Brock Lesnar has been absent from WWE programming since WWE SummerSlam 2023. He was implicated in Janel Grant's laš³wsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE, and there is no word on if he will return to the company.
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