{"id":839103,"date":"2026-08-02T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839103\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:11:09","slug":"wwe-superstar-cm-punk-pays-tribute-to-north-stars-at-summer-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839103\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE superstar CM Punk pays tribute to North Stars at Summer Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of the famous &#8220;arrow N&#8221; logo with the star on top, Punk of course had a &#8220;CM&#8221; in its place. The back of the jacket had a No. 20 to signify Punk&#8217;s two decade-long career in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>The North Stars played in Minnesota from 1967 to 1993 before moving to Dallas to become the current-day Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The current team in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Wild, came about as an expansion team in 1997 and have certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/wild-honor-north-stars-with-new-alternate-78s-uniforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">embraced the legendary color scheme<\/a> with their alternate jersey designs.<\/p>\n<p>Punk didn&#8217;t just have the jacket &#8211; which he wore with the WWE Championship Belt on his way to the ring on Saturday &#8211; his wrestling trunks and boots were also patterned for the North Stars.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, he did <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WWE\/status\/2083711615975752053?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">defeat Rhodes to retain the title<\/a> of Undisputed WWE Champion. Here at the League we are also crowning Punk winner of the Norris Division for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead of the famous &#8220;arrow N&#8221; logo with the star on top, Punk of course had a &#8220;CM&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-839103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}