“Not f**kin with these crazy a**es,” CM Punk reacts after Rhea Ripley and Co. bring about CARNAGE to SmackDown

Leading the charge of one WarGames team, Rhea Ripley battered her rivals on SmackDown, prompting CM Punk to come up with a witty reply.

“Not f**kin with these crazy a**es,” CM Punk reacts after Rhea Ripley and Co. bring about CARNAGE to SmackDown

CM Punk reacts to Rhea Ripley's destruction trail on SmackDown [via- WWE and CM Punk/@Instagram]

CM Punk is erudite enough to discern whom to pick a fight with. At least he’s not doing it with the newly assembled WarGames team led by Rhea Ripley. As seen on SmackDown last Friday, she brought a kendo stick with her and led an all-out melee in the ring. WWE posted a clip of its aftermath on Instagram where Ripley could be seen carrying Iyo Sky in her arms.

As they both seemed amped up for the WarGames match at Survivor Series, Punk reacted to the same, saying he’d not mess around with those ladies. Moreover, one of Punk’s best friends, Bayley, who wasn’t originally in the hunt for WarGames, has replaced Jade Cargill as Team Rhea’s fifth member. Jade was mysteriously attacked during SmackDown.

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She was laid out cold on a car’s bumper in the parking lot. Her partner, Bianca Belair, rushed to the site, donning a concerned look on her face. Before Belair could reach there, Bayley and Naomi were already surveying the scenes, evoking doubt among fans that one of them took Cargill out. Naomi has since denied the allegations.

I’m not fu**in with these crazy a**es.

CM Punk via Instagram Stories

However, a report from Fightful suggests that Jade’s ambush was apparently staged to cover up a real injury. The specifics are under wraps, but she’ll be out for a while. But that puts Bayley on the same side as her former Damage CTRL member-turned-rival, Iyo Sky. That’d be an interesting dynamic.

Apart from them, Ripley and the other two women, viz., Belair and Naomi, are up for war. They’ll meet Nia Jax, Tiffany Stratton, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, and Candice LeRae inside the double-caged structure on November 30. This one has heated up a bit over the past few days.

CM Punk forms dream team with the OG Bloodline for Survivor Series

Just when it appeared less likely that CM Punk would make it to Survivor Series this year, the tides turned. As revealed by a returning Paul Heyman on SmackDown, The Best in the World has joined the OG Bloodline as their fifth member.

CM Punk and The Bloodline
CM Punk and the OG Bloodline (via- WWE)

They’re set to take on Solo Sikoa‘s men and Bronson Reed this Saturday. When Roman Reigns‘ quartet was a man short of five, his Wiseman bailed him out of the trenches. Heyman looked down the barrel but found his former client willing to help.

Punk seems all in, as he recently shared a hilarious photo on Instagram depicting the childhood portraits of himself, Roman, The Usos, Sami Zayn, and Mr. Heyman himself mingled into one. Fans were left chuckling on social media, with some joking that Punk in his early days looked like Eminem.

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