CM Punk shared a heartwarming AJ Lee update ahead of tonight's edition of WWE SmackDown. The Second City Saint defeated Jey Uso at Saturday Night's Main Event on November 1 to become the new World Heavyweight Champion.AJ Lee returned to the ring after a decade to team up with CM Punk to defeat Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins earlier this year at Wrestlepalooza 2025. Lee has not been seen since the PLE in September, and it remains unknown when she will make her return to WWE television.Ahead of tonight's episode of WWE SmackDown, Punk took to his Instagram story to share a backstage photo with AJ Lee and tagged his wife in the photo, as seen in the image below.Punk shared a heartwarming update with his wife ahead of SmackDown. [Image credit: CM Punk on Instagram]Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam 2025 by defeating Gunther. However, his title reign was incredibly short-lived, as Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to become champion within minutes. Rollins suffered an untimely injury at Crown Jewel 2025 and recently had to relinquish the World Heavyweight Championship.WWE Hall of Famer reacts to CM Punk's title winWrestling legend Bully Ray recently shared his thoughts on CM Punk becoming the new World Heavyweight Champion this past weekend at Saturday Night's Main Event.Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Bully Ray stated that there wasn't anything wrong with the match between Punk and Uso; it just didn't feel special due to Seth Rollins' unfortunate injury situation."Listen, everything went fine. Everything was good; everything worked out. No problems. They put the championship on Punk. There’s no negative to what they did. But it just didn’t feel like a big deal. Yes, the fans were happy; yes, the place popped. But it just didn’t feel like a win that really, really mattered. It felt like a win because they had to do something based on what happened to Seth. And I think subconsciously that’s in the back of everybody’s minds,” he said.It will be interesting to see what WWE has planned for Punk's reign as World Heavyweight Champion moving forward.