‘Watch out!’… Buddy Matthews sends warning after CM Punk’s Rhea Ripley post
Buddy Matthews has sent CM Punk a tongue-in-cheek warning after the star posted a picture with his wife Rhea Ripley.
Since his WWE return, CM Punk has been active on social media, often supporting WWE NXT stars ahead of their matches.
The Best in the World has posted an image of him and Rhea Ripley flexing their muscles at a gym and AEW star and real-life husband Buddy Matthews has responded.
Buddy Matthews pokes fun at CM Punk and Rhea Ripley
Ahead of a busy period for Punk and Ripley, with both stars set for huge matches on WWE Raw’s Netflix debut against Seth Rollins and Liv Morgan respectively, the pair have given fans an insight into their preparation.
After posting a picture together, but of the star’s real-life partners joined in the action as the stars whipped up a social media storm.
Punk’s wife AJ Lee wrote: “Zaddy and mami”, while Matthews took the opportunity to send a thinly-veiled joke.
He said: “Phillip… watch out! I know we are mates but I will not sit here and let you flex without mentioning me!”
Matthews recently went viral with a post with Ripley after the Australian star showed off his ripped physique.
CM Punk’s Madison Square Garden opponent revealed
Punk has not appeared in a match since defeating Drew McIntyre inside Hell in a Cell at Bad Blood, but he’s set to lace up his boots once again ahead of his clash with Rollins.
The star will feature at WWE’s famous Madison Square Garden Christmas show on December 25 and he’ll be wrestling Imperium member Ludwig Kaiser.
Last year, Punk wrestled his first WWE match in nearly a decade at the Christmas show against Dominik Mysterio.
Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands “don’t need to be scared” of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi’s head of experiential marketing. Other power sources including fuel cells may turn out to be more effective than batteries, Bernhard Neumann told Dezeen, although he said “the end of the combustion engine will come for sure.” When asked whether brands like Audi felt threatened by the hype around battery-powered electric vehicles being developed by American companies, Neumann said: “I don’t think we need to be scared. We are very aware and we are adapting very fast.” Californian company Tesla has led the charge towards electric cars, launching the Tesla Roadster in 2008, and Apple is widely expected to follow suit.
Mainstream rivals have since raced to catch up and develop battery-powered vehicles. BMW launched its first electric car, the i3, in 2013 while Porsche unveiled its first all-electric sports car in September.
But while petrol is on its way out as a fuel source, its replacement is not yet certain, Neumann added. “That is the million-dollar question. Everybody is thinking now that it is electric, but I also see alternatives. For example the fuel cell.”
Neumann spoke to Dezeen at Design Miami in Florida last week, where the brand presented its forthcoming E-tron Quattro electric sport-utility vehicle. This will be the German car brand’s first all-electric car when it goes on sale in 2018. Yet Audi is hedging its bets, and will also next year showcase a version powered by fuel cells, which convert energy from fuels such as hydrogen into electricity via a chemical reaction rather than combustion.
Audi is also joining Tesla, Google, Apple and others by developing concepts for driverless cars, adapting its RS 7 performance cars to travel at speed around race tracks without a driver. Sven Schuwirth, vice president of brand strategy and digital business at the brand, told Dezeen last month that autonomous vehicles could “disrupt the entire business of domestic flights” as business travellers sleep in their cars rather than fly.
