The most candid parts of Netflix's WWE: Unreal series are the confessions from former Women's World Champion Rhea Ripley and WrestleMania 41 main eventer CM Punk about having anxiety. Ripley has been especially open about the topic after having a panic attack before her WrestleMania 40 match against Becky Lynch.

CM Punk touches on getting anxious before matches, claims that too much preparation beforehand only increases his anxiety on the way to the ring.

Phil “CM Punk” Brooks kind of shit the bed in his brief mixed-martial arts stint (0-1-1) between WWE residencies. Now, it sounds like he may have also shit the ring — or at least his ring gear — in his long and illustrious pro-wrestling career.

Rhea Ripley looked back on her early days as a wrestling fan and how much CM Punk meant to her have him back in WWE. Rhea Ripley opened up about how emotional it was to see CM Punk return to WWE during an interview on Unsportsmanlike with Evan Cohen,

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/t WrestlePurists ), WWE's original plans called for the WWE Championship bout between John Cena and Cody Rhodes to be the main event of Night 2, potentially with the inclusion of a stipulation.

With SummerSlam drawing near, Gunther needed a new challenger and he got just that, with CM Punk winning the gauntlet match after eliminating Bron Breakker, the Rollins disciple who'd taken out three men before Punk got the win -- and then a save from Roman Reigns.

Before returning to pro wrestling for AEW in 2021, CM Punk almost came back a couple years earlier for WWE.

Even as he enters the twilight of his incredibly accomplished in-ring career, CM Punk still has plenty more to offer WWE and its audience, and already has had a celebrated and successful return run with the company.

CM Punk named four WWE Superstars he believes are the future. In an interview with Matt Aguilar for ComicBook Nation, CM Punk talked about his upcoming match against Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam.