CM Punk Wore His Dead Dog's Paw Prints Into a Title Match
CM Punk wore his late dog Larry's actual paw prints into his WWE Championship defense — then Sami Zayn turned heel to help him keep the belt.
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WWE Buried Ilja Dragunov, Then Let Him Walk
Ilja Dragunov didn't get cut from WWE. He got buried for months after winning the US Championship, then let his contract expire rather than stick around.
Kevin Owens Is Back and He's Coming for Punk
Kevin Owens said he never made peace with his career being over. Seventeen months later he's stunnering his way to a CM Punk title match. Don't ruin this, WWE.
Sami Zayn Finally Got the Title. CM Punk Took It Nine Days Later.
CM Punk took the WWE title from Sami Zayn in Chicago after nine days. His raw, tearful post-loss promo wasn't scripted. It was 24 years of heartbreak.
CM Punk Is Champion and SummerSlam Just Got Better
CM Punk won the WWE Championship on Raw in Chicago. He didn't complicate SummerSlam — he gave it an emotional architecture it didn't have before.
CM Punk Is WWE Champion in Chicago Again
CM Punk is the WWE Champion again, and it happened in Chicago, at Allstate Arena, the way it was always supposed to. Nine days, Sami. Nine days.
CM Punk Is Coming Back to Chicago, and the Story Writes Itself
CM Punk returns to Chicago tonight — same building as the 2011 pipe bomb. Fifteen years later, WWE stumbled into the perfect SummerSlam setup.
Sami Zayn Broke WWE's Entire Summer Plan
Sami Zayn wasn't supposed to win the WWE title. CM Punk was. Now Punk walks into Chicago on Monday and has to deal with it. I'm fully locked in.
Sami Zayn Did It. He Actually Did It.
Sami Zayn just pinned Cody Rhodes in Riyadh to win the Undisputed WWE Championship. After ten years of getting screwed, this is the movie ending I never thought we'd get.
Sami Zayn Is WWE Champion and Wrestling Finally Got It Right
Sami Zayn won the WWE Championship at Night of Champions 2026 and earned every second of it. A decade-long pursuit, one miracle in Riyadh.
WWE Night of Champions 2026: A Good Show in a Bad Venue
WWE Night of Champions 2026 has one of the best-built main events in years. Geographic snobbery about Saudi Arabia is going to cost you a great wrestling weekend.
WWE's Wildest Main Event of 2026 Is Six Days Away
WWE Night of Champions 2026 is June 27. Cody Rhodes defends the title against Gunther AND Sami Zayn at once. The card is insane and nobody is acting like it.
Sami Zayn Turns Night of Champions Upside Down
Sami Zayn crashing the Cody Rhodes-Gunther match at Night of Champions 2026 does something rare: it makes a WWE title picture genuinely impossible to predict.