John Cena delivered an intense promo on the June 20th episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, referencing CM Punk’s “Pipebomb” from 2011, calling Punk a “capitalist,” and mentioning Claudio Castagnoli, Nic Nemeth, and Matt Cardona.
Cena stated that Punk’s only advantage over him was being a “bullshi*ter.”
Following this, Kevin Owens posted a picture of himself wearing a Cena shirt, as you can see below:
— Kevin (@FightOwensFight) June 21, 2025
Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown featured several dark matches, one of which saw Hikuleo in action.
Hikuleo defeated an unnamed opponent, marking his second consecutive week competing in a dark match before SmackDown, having previously defeated Kit Wilson from Pretty Deadly on the June 13th show.
Besides the dark matches, Hikuleo has not appeared in front of a live WWE audience since his last televised match at NJPW Dominion 2024.
And finally, during a recent appearance on the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, WWE NXT star Lash Legend revealed that her dream match would be a Triple Threat against Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On her dream match: “My modern day dream match would be me versus Rhea Ripley versus Bianca Belair. Since I’ve gotten into wrestling and watched them, that has been my dream match and it hasn’t changed.”
On Belair’s match with Mercedes Mone at WrestleMania 37: “I feel like you can name so many really good matches, but as far as the one that I really felt something, and it’s probably because I was just getting into wrestling, was literally Bianca versus Sasha Banks. I cried. They were making history, one. Two African American women, just to even think about it, I’m getting goosebumps.”
