CM Punk Quietly Pulled From European WWE TV Tapings; March 3rd Wrestling News Round-Up

This week’s WWE Raw will emanate from the Keybank Centre in Buffalo, New York. The next WWE Premium Live Event is WrestleMania 41 in 6 weeks.

Matches and segments announced for the show include:

• War Raiders (c) vs Creed Brothers – World Tag Team Championship match
• Lyra Valkyria (c) vs Ivy Nile – Women’s Intercontinental Championship match
• Rhea Ripley (c) vs IYO SKY – Women’s World Championship match

What are you most excited to see on tonight’s episode of NXT? Let us know your thoughts here!

It’ll be some time before we hear from John Cena after his shocking heel turn.

As The Rock noted on the Elimination Chamber post-show, Cena flew into Toronto for Elimination Chamber from a shoot in Budapest and immediately flew out again to another in Africa. As a result, he will not be appearing on Raw tonight.

Cena’s next WWE TV appearance will actually take place internationally as he’s advertised for the March 17th edition of Raw in Brussels, Belgium. He’ll also appear on the following two weeks of Raw from Glasgow, Scotland and London, England.

The 16-time world champ hopes to capture a record-setting 17th world title when he challenges Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes in the main event of WrestleMania 41 next month. Should he fail, it looks unlikely he’ll surpass Ric Flair‘s record before he retires.

Liv Morgan has shown off her scars from the brutal Women’s Elimination Chamber match this past weekend.

The former Women’s World Champion took to X to post a photo showing her various wounds from competing inside the Elimination Chamber. Several bruises can be seen across her arms as well as a prominent scar on her stomach from Bianca Belair‘s hair whip.

Despite a strong showing, eliminating both Bayley and Alexa Bliss from the bout, Morgan failed to come out on top in Toronto. That honour instead went to Belair, who last eliminated Morgan with the KOD to win her second Elimination Chamber.

Belair will challenge the Women’s World Champion at WrestleMania 41. While Rhea Ripley currently holds the title, she’s set to defend it against IYO SKY on Raw tonight, with the winner set to face Belair on The Grandest Stage Of Them All.

Wrestling 🖤 pic.twitter.com/goRoilOswr

— LIV Morgan (@YaOnlyLivvOnce) March 2, 2025

WWE appear to have quietly pulled CM Punk from some of its TV tapings in Europe.

A few weeks ago, WWE UK announced CM Punk’s return to the UK. The Second City Saint was confirmed to appear on the March 24th Raw in Glasgow and the following week’s Raw in London on March 31st.

However, it seems plans have now changed. The tweet that announced the news has since been deleted and a recent post on the WWE UK Instagram promoting Punk for the upcoming European tour does not list either show. Punk is also absent from the event pages for the Glasgow and London tapings on WWE’s website.

Instead, Punk is now being advertised for the March 17th Raw in Brussels, Belgium; the March 21st SmackDown in Bologna, Italy; and the March 28th SmackDown in London.

While fans in Scotland will seemingly miss out on seeing Punk this time around, a huge star appears to be replacing him. Despite belonging to SmackDown, Cody Rhodes is now being advertised for the Glasgow and London Raws on WWE’s website – on top of John Cena’s highly-anticipated appearance at both events.

Welcome back to the ITRWrestling live blog! I’ll be with you from 2pm to 6pm GMT (9am -1pm ET) covering all the biggest stories from WWE, AEW, NJPW, TNA, and more.

Today’s top stories are:

• CM Punk Quietly Pulled From European WWE TV Tapings
• Liv Morgan Shows Off Elimination Chamber Wounds
• When Will John Cena Make His First Appearance As A Heel?