{"id":165410,"date":"2023-09-08T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=165410"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:09:33","slug":"zelina-vega-says-shed-welcome-cm-punk-back-to-wwe-defends-the-person-behind-all-the-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/09\/08\/zelina-vega-says-shed-welcome-cm-punk-back-to-wwe-defends-the-person-behind-all-the-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelina Vega says she&#8217;d welcome CM Punk back to WWE, defends the person behind all the controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-148835747\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Zelina Vega says she has always had a great relationship with CM Punk and would welcome him back to WWE.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know much about his situation with AEW, but I have always had a fantastic relationship with CM Punk,&#8221; she told Alfonso Castillo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/wwe-cm-punk-zelina-vega-ohgzfckq\">Newsday<\/a>. &#8220;You hear all these things about him. I am so big on not listening to other people\u2019s experiences, the dirt sheets, all that crap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said there&#8217;s &#8220;so many reasons&#8221; she&#8217;d like to see Punk return to WWE. &#8220;Not just for me, but for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the controversy that Punk brings, Vega said there&#8217;s a good person underneath all that. &#8220;He\u2019s always been a fantastic person,\u201d Vega said. \u201cThere\u2019s layers to people. And when people are just so hung up on the outer layers of what a person can be, you get stuck there. And if you want to stay there, that\u2019s great. But when you get to know the core of a person, that\u2019s where I like to hang out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Newsday article pointed out, Punk defended Vega after she was released following a dispute over her independent Twitch channel.<\/p>\n<p>READ THE FULL VEGA INTERVIEW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/wwe-cm-punk-zelina-vega-ohgzfckq\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED NEXT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/09\/07\/jade-cargill-touts-tony-khan-as-a-boss-and-aew-as-an-organization-values-being-a-role-model\/\">Jade Cargill touts Tony Khan as a boss and AEW as an organization, values being a role model<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OR CHECK THIS OUT AT PROWRESTLING.NET:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2023\/09\/07\/tonys-takes-tony-khan-fires-cm-punk-roh-titles-on-aew-television-jimmy-uso-trade-compensation-revisiting-the-wrestlemania-39-main-event-outcome\/\">Tony\u2019s Takes: Tony Khan fires CM Punk, ROH titles on AEW television, Jimmy Uso trade compensation, revisiting the WrestleMania 39 main event outcome<\/a><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-417455035\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-458247605\"><div id=\"pwtor-2058262703\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Zelina Vega says she has always had a great relationship with CM Punk and would welcome him back to WWE. &#8220;I don\u2019t know much about his situation with AEW, but I have always had a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/09\/08\/zelina-vega-says-shed-welcome-cm-punk-back-to-wwe-defends-the-person-behind-all-the-controversy\/\" title=\"Zelina Vega says she&#8217;d welcome CM Punk back to WWE, defends the person behind all the controversy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-24-at-1.21.56-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165411,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165410\/revisions\/165411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}