Well, folks, if you were looking for drama, Clash at the Castle delivered in spades. CM Punk, the man who can stir a Scottish loch with a single smirk, made Drew McIntyre and a good chunk of Scotland furious on Saturday. His crafty refereeing cost McIntyre the World Heavyweight Championship, leaving fans questioning the state of Punk’s tricep injury from January. Punk, ever the showman, gave us an update – with a twist of humor.
“I’ve been cleared only for referee duty,” Punk joked at the post-event press conference. “I had a little bit of a hiccup out there so we’ll go back to the lab and reassess. I can tell you that my arm feels amazing. I got permission to skip ‘Raw’ in Corpus Christi to go home to Chicago to see my doctors with the idea that I’m going to be cleared. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that.”
Punk’s injury came at the worst possible time. In his first televised match since returning to WWE after nearly a decade, he suffered a tricep injury in January. The setback occurred during the Royal Rumble, where McIntyre dealt the damaging blow in the match’s final moments. This injury kept Punk out of WrestleMania and other international events. Adding salt to the wound, this wasn’t the first time Punk interfered with McIntyre’s title dreams. He played a pivotal role in McIntyre’s WrestleMania title loss when Damian Priest cashed in on the freshly crowned champion moments after his victory.