The Young Bucks have a pretty strong claim to “most popular wrestlers not in WWE.” And it’s unlikely they’ll ever wind up in WWE after the wrestling monolith slapped Matt and Nick Jackson with a pretty silly cease and desist after the brothers, along with their Bullet Club buddies, staged an “invasion” of Raw.
ANYWAY, the Bucks are keeping busy and making money hand over fist with merch sales, Hot Topic deals and everything else, but they’ve always been adamant about the top two people they’d like to bring into the Bullet Club fold: Hulk Hogan and CM Punk.
Kenny Omega and Cody Rhodes pretty much confirmed that Punk has an open invitation to join Bullet Club if he’s ever interested, and Marty Scurll didn’t hesitate to namedrop the Punker as his dream opponent.
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Matt Jackson again said that he talks to Punk all the time. And he’s constantly trying to find a way to convince Punk to return to the squared circle.
“I talk to [Punk] a lot. I bugged him for like, I don’t know, a year or two? I was really aggressive and at one point I realized that I should probably let him make his own decisions. He knows that there’s an offer there and he knows that I’m the first phone call that he should make if he decides to get back into the business.
“He’s told me that, he says when or if or ever he does decide to possibly get back into it, I’ll be the first guy he calls. It’ll be interesting. Whether or not he plays on our team or an opposing team, it’d be fun. When we’re talking about guys, another guy would be Bryan Danielson [WWE’s Daniel Bryan]. I don’t see him necessarily joining Bullet Club, but he’d be a fun guy to wrestle or to work with or whatever. Just to have him in the ring with us would be incredible.”
Punk, of course, is still training hard for an impending second MMA fight. We have no idea who his opponent might be in that hypothetical second fight, but it seems clear he’s compete in MMA at least once more before he returns to wrestling.
That’s if he ever returns to wrestling, that is. I believe the Young Bucks can probably be pretty convincing, but I also believe the most likely scenario for a Punk return is if Daniel Bryan lives up to his word and leaves WWE to compete elsewhere next fall.
