WWE: Wrestling World Pays Tribute to CM Punk & AJ Lee’s Dog Larry, John Cena Appearance Advertised for WWE RAW After WrestleMania 42 Show, Maxxine Durpi on “My Goal Is To Continue To Elevate The WWE Women’s Intercontinental Title”

Dec 2, 2025

Wrestling World Pays Tribute to CM Punk & AJ Lee’s Pet Dog Larry

As noted before, CM Punk announced earlier today that his and his wife AJ Lee’s pet dog Larry had passed away.

Following the announcement, WWE, PAWS Chicago, and others within the wrestling world paid tribute to Larry.

RIP to the one and only Larry 🖤

Sending love to @CMPunk & @TheAJMendez https://t.co/KV6KYQz4eP pic.twitter.com/8Q40y1NGMM
— WWE (@WWE) December 2, 2025

Brody King paying tribute to Larry on his Instagram Stories pic.twitter.com/HfTfY9Gw6D
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) December 2, 2025

PAWS Chicago wrote:

“We couldn’t have dreamed of a better life or a better family to love and celebrate Larry. Sending you lots of love from all of us at PAWS, we are so sorry for your loss ❤️”

Several current and former WWE wrestlers also posted condolences and tribute messages on Punk’s Instagram post.

Jade Cargill – “I’m so sorry.”
Alexa Bliss – “So sorry for your loss.”
Zachary Wentz – “Sending all the love.”
Bully Ray – “Sorry brother.”
Jacy Jayne – “I’m so sorry for your loss. You gave him the best life🥺 hang in there.”
Kacy Catanzaro (former Katana Chance) – “I am soooo sorry ❤️‍🩹 Sending all my love.”
Aleister Black – “I’m so sorry dude.”
Samantha Irvin – “I am so sorry. He was adored by millions.”
Stephanie Vaquer – “I’m so sorry for your loss 🥺. I hope you can find some comfort knowing he had a beautiful life filled with love because of you. Sending you a big hug champ. 🤍”

John Cena Appearance Advertised for WWE RAW After WrestleMania 42 Show

WWE is currently advertising that John Cena will be making an appearance at their WWE RAW show on April 21, 2026 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This upcoming show will be the RAW After WrestleMania show following that weekend’s WrestleMania 42 event in Las Vegas.

Cena is currently scheduled to retire from his in-ring wrestling career at WWE’s upcoming Saturday Night’s Main Event show on December 13th in Washington, D.C.

Maxxine Durpi Comments on “My Goal Is To Continue To Elevate The WWE Women’s Intercontinental Title”

Abe Kanan held a recent interview with WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Maxxine Dupri. One of the topics discussed included Dupri’s thoughts about her main goal for her WWE Women’s Intercontinental title reign.

“You know, I think I have two thoughts on this. My first thought is that I do believe that Becky Lynch took this title and Lyra Valkyria took this title and elevated it and made it big time, and that is my goal is to continue to elevate this title. I want this title to be special for the women. With that being said, I know I have a lot of growth to do. So with every match, I want to keep getting to a place where I am just absolutely dominating and I’m a killer in the ring. I think with that, we’ll bring the next steps. But right now, my focus is making sure that this title is a big-time title.”

Dupri also gave her thoughts about her having “goosebumps” thinking about defending her title at next year’s WrestleMania 42 event.

“I have goosebumps thinking about it. I literally- and on the West Coast, anything on the West Coast, I feel like I’m home. Put me anywhere in the West Coast, and I’m like, this is basically Loomis. I would be over the moon. I’m so excited to be going back to Las Vegas. Just the sports and entertainment capital, really and we’re bringing the greatest sports entertainment show for two nights. We’re going to have so many watch parties, after parties. We have WWE World. There’s so much going on.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2