Maybe I’m biased as the person who wrote an entire essay on SKY vs. Ripley vs. Belair, but CM Punk is absolutely, 100% correct that his match was outshone by the women last year. I would give kudos to Punk for being clear-eyed enough to see it, but wrestling is his job and he should be able to see when it rises to the level of true greatness, so instead I’ll just give him kudos for saying it out loud and pushing back on Nick Kostos’ blatantly untrue claim. Even Dave Meltzer, who is infamous for not giving American women’s matches the ratings they deserve, gave the women’s triple threat five stars (he gave Punk vs. Reigns vs. Rollins four and three-quarters, for the record).

I’m happy that Punk is proud of himself for where he is in his career heading into WrestleMania 42. He has every reason to be happy with his current position. But he could have just sat back and let Kostos say he had the best match at WrestleMania last year, and I’m glad he was honest enough to make the correction.