The WWE has still been selling CM Punk merchandise at its live events, but reports coming out of Sunday's WrestleMania XXX event indicate that the WWE was selling new merchandise for the "Best in the World" at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
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According to Wrestlingheadlines.com, while the WWE has sold some of Punk's old shirts at its live events since he walked out on the company, but the organization was peddling new merchandise at WrestleMania XXX.
It is unknown whether or not Punk is getting paid for the sales, but "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has said in the past that when he walked out of WWE due to frustrations over a decade ago, he was not paid for the merchandise the WWE had sold of his.
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Punk has not been seen on WWE television since storming out of the company prior to the Jan. 27 edition of Monday Night RAW on the night after the Royal Rumble pay-per-view. Punk was frustrated due to misuse in the company, and since he wasn't planning on signing a contract extension when his current deal expires in July, he chose to just walk out.
Punk was hoping to main event WrestleMania XXX, which according to his plans would have been his last one, but he was set to face Triple H in the original plans while Batista was due to fight Randy Orton for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and Daniel Bryan was slated to face Sheamus.
Punk said on the week of the Rumble that he or Bryan should be in the main event, not a "part-timer" like Batista, and he didn't see facing Triple H as a big deal. Reportedly miffed by it, Triple H shifted Bryan into the match with him after Punk left, adding the stipulation that if Bryan won he'd go into the main event, reportedly as a "middle finger" to the "Best in the World."
Bryan ended up beating Triple H and going on to win the main event and leave New Orleans as the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, something that may have never happened if Punk didn't leave.
The WWE had been hoping to work something out with Punk to return to the company, however after he no-showed the Chicago RAW on March 3 but appeared on the AMC show Talking Dead, the WWE was annoyed enough to distance themselves from him.
It seems like Punk won't be returning while the company will continue to sell his merchandise.
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