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What did you think of CM Punk's WWE return? Let me know in the comments down below... WATCH: CM Punk WWE Return REACTION  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwDXsgmRFA WATCH: WWE Is Screwing With AEW  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1azWPwLZdTI More wrestling news on https://wrestletalk.com/  Despite every report saying it wasn't happening, CM Punk made his WWE return after over nine years away at the very end of WWE Survivor Series 2023, which took place in his hometown of Chicago. CM Punk-obsessed Oli Davis gives his review of the whole WWE show, and CM Punk's return. It's not as glowing as you'd think...  CM Punk WWE Return Confirmed. WWE Survivor Series 2023 Review | WrestleTalk #cmpunk #cmpunkreturn #cmpunkreturn  #WWE #WrestlingNews #WrestleTalk #WWERAW #AEW  Subscribe to WrestleTalk Podcasts   https://bit.ly/3pEAEIu Subscribe to partsFUNknown for lists, fantasy booking & more  https://bit.ly/32JJsCv Subscribe to NoRollsBarred  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UQPZe-8v4_UP1uxi4Mv6A Subscribe to WrestleTalk  https://bit.ly/3gKdNK3 SUBSCRIBE TO THEM ALL! Make sure to enable ALL push notifications!  Watch the latest wrestling news: https://shorturl.at/pAIV3 Buy WrestleTalk Merch here! https://wrestleshop.com/   Follow WrestleTalk: Twitter: https://twitter.com/_WrestleTalk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WrestleTalk.Official Patreon: https://goo.gl/2yuJpo WrestleTalk Podcast on iTunes: https://goo.gl/7advjX WrestleTalk Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3uKx6HD  About WrestleTalk: Welcome to the official WrestleTalk YouTube channel! WrestleTalk covers the sport of professional wrestling - including WWE TV shows (both WWE Raw & WWE SmackDown LIVE), PPVs (such as Royal Rumble, WrestleMania & SummerSlam), AEW All Elite Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, ROH, New Japan, and more. Subscribe and enable ALL notifications for the latest wrestling WWE reviews and wrestling news.  Sources used for research:  Youtube Channel Comments Policy We appreciate the comments and opinions our viewers provide. Do note that all comments are subject to YouTube auto-moderation and manual moderation review. We encourage opinions and discussion, but harassment, hate speech, bullying and other abusive posts will not be tolerated. Decisions on comment removal are made by the Community Manager. Please email us at support@wrestletalk.com with any questions or concerns.

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00:00 The biggest wrestling star on the planet just returned to WWE.

00:04 Will he main event WrestleMania?

00:06 Will he right the wrongs of his past?

00:09 Or will he rip another locker room apart at it seems?

00:12 Breaking News!

00:14 Our truth has returned to WWE.

00:16 That's all the returns that happened on this show.

00:21 Just one more thing…

00:24 Because Randy Orton came back too!

00:26 From out of… well, from out of being heavily referenced on the Go Home episode of Raw.

00:31 But yeah, our truth, Randy Orton.

00:35 What a show.

00:38 But just one more thing…

00:41 Closer…

00:43 CM Punk return confirmed.

00:52 I know, I know, we all just want to talk about one thing.

00:55 Mainly because the rest of Survivor Series was mostly filler.

00:58 No killer.

00:59 But there wasn't a kickoff match, and the show was a glorious 2 hours 54 minutes in

01:03 total, so it won't take long.

01:05 Just remember, keep checking WrestleTalk.com throughout the day for all the up-to-date

01:09 minute developments and reactions to that CM Punk news.

01:12 The show opened with War Games.

01:15 Women.

01:16 Where randomly assorted babyfaces Charlotte Flair, Shotzi, Bianca Belair and Becky Lynch

01:20 took on Damage Kinshru in a 4 vs 4 matchup.

01:24 Commentary pointed out this is Charlotte Flair's first ever War Games match.

01:28 She's presumably missed them so far because they require her to actually take bumps.

01:33 Her and Becky provided the faces' main story throughout the match.

01:37 The lifelong frenemies showed a lot of tension up until the end.

01:40 Remember, the last time they met was in that awkward month where they reportedly shoot-hated

01:45 each other following Charlotte's controversial belt drop segment on SmackDown, but they had

01:50 a cool payoff when they finally embraced, teaming together to take out their opponents.

01:54 Charlotte's performance, for me, though, feels so lacklustre these days.

01:59 She was nowhere near the fiery passion or intensity that Becky brought to those moments.

02:04 Even when Flair was doing a moonsault off the top of the cage, she looked kind of bored.

02:09 The main story on the heels side was that Bayley is to be trusted.

02:14 She was constantly saving near falls on her Japanese teammates, and even sacrificed herself

02:19 pushing Kairi out the way to take a Charlotte spear.

02:22 That led to the end, where all the faces hit their finishers, with Becky pinning Bayley

02:26 off a second rope manhandle slammed through a table.

02:29 I expect Bayley's theme song will soon become 'one of these things is not like the other'

02:34 because she's quickly becoming Sami Zayn in the bloodline.

02:37 The only other thing I wanted to note from this match is, you know, I was right.

02:41 I predicted a thing.

02:43 Main roster trashcan.

02:44 She's going to jump off the top of the cell in a trashcan.

02:48 This was a really good match to open the show.

02:50 With the tag titles currently held up in the main event scene, the actual tag division

02:55 is now being used exclusively for branded content integration.

02:58 Alpha Academy and Pretty Deadly promoted Ruffles, which is where R-Truth made his return, and

03:04 The New Day drove to the arena in a Slim Jim car.

03:07 After not being beaten for two years, Gunther then defended his Intercontinental Championship

03:12 against The Miz.

03:13 It was like two clashing artistic styles occupying the same screen.

03:17 Like The Miz had glitched into Gunther's dimension in Across the Spider-Verse.

03:21 I watched it again yesterday.

03:23 The King of Sports Entertainment Soft Style vs one of the hardest hitters of his generation.

03:30 And it was over relatively easily, barely an inconvenience.

03:35 Miz would target Gunther's left knee for his Figure 4, and he managed a babyface low

03:39 blow and exposed turnbuckle for one genuinely great nearfall.

03:42 But overall, this was a decisive filler victory in Gunther's longer reign.

03:47 He hit a lariat and a splash, and then made Miz tap in the Boston Crab.

03:51 A fun match, but it never reached that second gear to make it properly competitive.

03:55 Santos Escobar vs Dragon Lee had some good back and forth action, with Santos bringing

03:59 the intensity of his recent heel turn, but ultimately this was just another filler match.

04:04 It wasn't even a proper grudge match, as Dragon Lee was neither of the two people Escobar

04:09 actually has beef with - Carlito and Rey Mysterio.

04:12 And seven minutes long, this was just a way to give Santos a pay-per-view win ahead of

04:16 those bigger matches.

04:18 And then we got Rhea Ripley defending her women's title against Zoey Stark - the third

04:22 predictable pay-per-view filler match in a row.

04:25 Zoey's physics-breaking offence is always fun to watch, but she was never a believable

04:29 winner here, and the crowd only ever cheered Ripley.

04:32 Rhea won with a riptide.

04:33 In between these filler midcard matches, the night-long narrative was 'would famed kayfabe

04:38 dickhead Randy Orton actually show up and help his mates?'

04:42 Sami Zayn and Jey Uso said they'd have to have each other's backs no matter who turns

04:45 up, Judgment Day gloated that even if Randy does show up, he'll probably turn heel on

04:49 one of his teammates, and Seth kept shouting at Cody for updates.

04:54 The Jeopardy felt somewhat forced, but at least they didn't just suddenly announce

04:56 Adam Cole as his replacement.

04:58 For the men's War Games match itself, Seth started for the babyfaces, with Cody, Jey

05:03 and Sami waiting in the cage, with Orton still not having appeared from outta somewhere.

05:09 The ballot started for Judgment Day, recalling his long and recent history with Rollins,

05:13 while JD, Dominik, Priest and McIntyre watched from the ramp, with palpable tension between

05:19 Drew and Damian.

05:20 The heels had the advantage, a far better working of psychology than the women's opener,

05:24 meaning JD was in next, then Jey Uso, with yeet chants from the crowd and evils from

05:29 Drew McIntyre on every strike.

05:31 Damian stopped McIntyre going out next, so consumed was he by hate for Jey.

05:35 Then it was Zayn, then Drew, then Cody, then Dominik.

05:39 Where the Chicago crowd wanted to boo him so much, they didn't even do the countdown.

05:44 The match beyond had four faces against five heels, with still no sign of Randy.

05:49 Seth started to shout at Cody.

05:50 The numbers game got the better of the faces for Rhea's music to hit, trying to cash

05:55 in Damian's Money in the Bank briefcase for him.

05:57 But in an ingeniously plotted next beat, Orton's music hit, fittingly kinda from outta nowhere,

06:03 for his full return.

06:05 He, uh… he looks big.

06:07 He's a big boy.

06:08 Randy didn't really do much, but whatever limitations he has were protected by the spots

06:12 he did.

06:13 Last, by storyline tension with Jey, the man who injured him, hidden in a five person draping

06:18 DDT spot, and helped by Sami and Seth throwing JD off the top of the cage for Randy to hit

06:24 an RKO beneath.

06:26 Orton gave Priest to his legacy protege Cody, who hit a crossroads to win.

06:30 Because apparently it doesn't matter how many times you get pinned when you have the

06:33 Money in the Bank briefcase.

06:35 You have a perfectly good JD McDonough right there.

06:38 Now I didn't watch this live, so I could see there were five minutes left of the broadcast

06:43 while all the faces were celebrating.

06:45 Never trust a Triple H booked copyright logo.

06:47 I thought Randy might turn on someone.

06:50 Or maybe the Judgment Day would turn on Priest.

06:52 Or maybe, but very, very unlikelyly, unlikelyly, we'd get…

07:00 CM Punk return confirmed.

07:02 Michael Cole was getting ready to throw to the post-show press conference when Cult of

07:06 Personality hit.

07:08 The crowd exploded.

07:09 Then they exploded even louder when Punk appeared in the entranceway, looking like he borrowed

07:15 Bryan Danielson's AEW debut outfit of a simple white tee.

07:19 The whole place screamed 'it's clobbering time' and a fan embraced Punk, screaming

07:23 'CHICAGO, CHICAGO, CHICAGO' and staring right into the camera, while Punk himself

07:30 asked 'whose time is this?'

07:33 Coincidentally, at the same time, his old show Collision would have been concluding

07:37 on another station.

07:38 Here's how everyone reacted at our Watch Party livestream.

07:42 [CLIP]

08:04, I think we can rule CM Punk out from being the devil.

08:32 He then finished the broadcast by being cut off midway, going OOOOOOHHHHHH like it was

08:39 Gary Neville watching a goal go in.

08:41 Obviously CM Punk is my favourite wrestler.

08:43 I cried on air with overwhelmed joy when he returned to wrestling with AEW the first time,

08:49 not the second time.

08:51 I imagine a lot of you want to know my thoughts on him coming back to WWE.

08:56 And for you I say… I don't know.

09:03 It feels a bit too soon, so I don't want to really clarify how I'm going to feel

09:09 in stone.

09:10 But I'll tell you what I wrote in my notes as this was happening.

09:15 My notes said "What a sellout.

09:19 This doesn't feel the same as before."

09:21 Because a huge part of my love for Punk was how he stood in opposition to a system and

09:25 corporation I despised over that last decade.

09:29 He was the voice of the voiceless, speaking up for a number of badly booked, mistreated

09:33 wrestlers backstage, and hundreds of thousands of dissatisfied, frustrated fans at home like

09:38 me.

09:40 People change, companies change, and sometimes they do so inversely proportional to each

09:46 other.

09:47 While WWE under Triple H has become a hot promotion, Punk, with his backstage behaviour

09:52 in AEW, has been an increasingly difficult anti-establishment figure to follow.

09:57 And in this act, returning to WWE, the company he stood up to in 2014, it feels as though

10:04 Punk sold out.

10:05 The TV will still be great, his performances will be captivating, particularly if he goes

10:10 corporate heel, but the authenticity that I so loved him for right now feels compromised.

10:16 But Ryback also tweeted he'd officially retire from pro wrestling if Punk returned

10:20 at Survivor Series, so it's all good!

10:23 CM Punk!

10:24 CM Punk!

10:25 CM Punk!

10:26 Get us some Domus F***.

10:28 Survivor Series was a mediocre main card, especially by Big Four standards, with an

10:33 insanely hot closing angle.

10:35 This was 80%.

10:37 I actually predicted CM Punk coming into WWE to scrove at AEW last year.

10:43 Watch on to find out more.

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