CM Punk reacts to Netflix’s upcoming WWE: Unreal docuseries.
Netflix is set to premiere WWE: Unreal on July 29, 2025. The new docuseries will pull back the curtain on WWE, giving fans access to the inner workings of the company. Taking fans from the writer’s room to major events like WrestleMania and Royal Rumble, the series aims to reveal how iconic storylines come to life.
During an appearance on Unsportsmanlike with Evan Cohen, Chris Canty, and Michelle Smallmon, CM Punk shared his perspective on the show. He acknowledged that he’s not the ideal person to promote it, noting how he’s always tried to protect the magic of the business.
CM Punk has mixed feelings about WWE: Unreal
“I’m probably the wrong guy to put on this show to try and talk it up. It is not that I’m so much against it. It’s that my entire existence in my profession, professional wrestling, you’re taught and you’re brought up, and you’re old school, you protect the business. It’s always been that way. Since the 1920s or 1930s, everyone knew that wrestling was predetermined. They talk about how they didn’t know, and how in the 1980s we just kind of blew it wide open. And now we’re exposing the business. If you’re living under a rock, you don’t know, but most people do know.
“What this show is going to do is just show us backstage in our environment, interacting with each other. That’s really for the fans. You see it all the time with football shows like Hard Knocks. That’s a big one. You’re in the room, you’re seeing the special teams, Xs and Os, and the relationships between the coaches and players and families. That’s sort of what we’re doing. We’re following suit in a way. It’s just really strange, for me at least, because I’ve always been taught you protect the business, you don’t let the insiders in.” [H/T: Fightful]
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