In an interview with Ariel Helwani as part of The MMA Hour, WWE superstar CM Punk discussed several topics, including his WWE return at the 2023 Survivor Series Premium Live Event, WWE believing that he had a non-compete clause when he was contacted by the company and more.

“I think the call was more of, hey we want to talk to you about coming back, we’d love to have you for the Royal Rumble, because they assumed that I probably had some sort of non-compete or something like that and were kind of floored when I was like no, I’m ready to go, let’s do it.

I don’t think they would ever allow me to be on television without signing something, I literally was on the phone, sign, go, I signed and then walked into gorilla and it was like the most crowded elevator, everyone turned and looked and jaws dropped on the floor and people were like, what!”

The full interview is available at this link.