While CM Punk is lighting the wrestling world on fire following his debut in AEW, he did have to pass on a WWE return in order to make it happen.
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CM Punk never met with the WWE board you guys. Never mind the fact that there's no such thing as the WWE board. Or that that's not what a board does.
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