CM Punk hopes to work more WWE tag matches with wife AJ Lee
CM Punk is hoping that he and his wife AJ Lee will get to work more mixed tag matches together in the future.
In what was Lee’s first match in more than a decade, she and Punk teamed up together to defeat Becky Lynch & Seth Rollins at WWE Wrestlepalooza in September 2025. Punk reflected on that moment in a new interview with Complex, saying he had the time of his life and selfishly hopes that it was not a one-off.
“I don’t have the words to explain exactly how enjoyable all that was for me,” Punk said. “You know, I’m her biggest fan. So to have a front row seat, literally, for her return and to help kind of put it all together behind the scenes and the anticipation, like, knowing it was going to happen and just knowing how great it was going to be and what an amazing moment it was going to be. Yeah, time of my life, 100 percent. Selfishly, I want to tag with her more. It feels like that might have been a one-off, but I don’t know. We’ll have to see.”
Lee retired from WWE in 2015 but is now back with the company under a new deal. She’s taking a “trepidatious” approach to her WWE schedule and has only wrestled twice since her return, but it looks like Lee facing Lynch for the Women’s Intercontinental title is in the works for WrestleMania 42 this April.
Punk was recently unveiled as the cover star for WWE 2K26. In the interview with Complex, he was asked if we could potentially see Lee as a playable character in the video game.
“Fingers are crossed,” Punk responded. “I’m not spoiling anything for anybody.”
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