CM Punk's torn triceps injury during the 2024 WWE Royal Rumble PLE significantly impacted WWE's plans for Wrestlemania 40. After an episode of Smackdown on April 26, 2024, Punk addressed the audience with these words:

“I have missed you. Look around at this place, y’all packed this house. We couldn’t do this without each and every single one of you. On behalf of everyone backstage, we humbly thank you very much.

I want to give a little update – my tricep is not a hundred percent, yet. But I am on track and I promise, soon, I will be back and competing with all the tough badasses backstage.”

CM Punk off-air promo #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/d2mppfyQ0B

— BWAMatt (@BWAMatt) April 27, 2024

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