How CM Punk Really Felt About AEW All In Footage Airing
CM Punk has given his honest assessment of AEW deciding to air the footage from his infamous backstage fight with Jack Perry at All In.
CM Punk was fired by AEW following AEW All In after he became embroiled in a backstage fight with Jack Perry. That allowed Punk to shock the world when he returned to WWE a few short weeks later in his hometown of Chicago at the Survivor Series.
CM Punk attempted to hog the headlines during the week of WrestleMania 40 as he was forced to sit on the sidelines due to injury by finally giving his side of the story of his time in AEW. CM Punk claimed he had “choked someone a little bit.” Tony Khan decided to let the world decide as AEW announced that The Young Bucks would show the backstage footage from All In on Dynamite.
CM Punk Sees No Sense In All In Footage Airing
Now speaking to Jimmy Traina on the SI Media podcast, CM Punk has given his honest response to that decision and noted it wasn’t going to help AEW and it wasn’t going to hurt him one bit:
It’s kind of like….I have to wrestle Drew McIntyre, right? It’s this garbage person that I don’t want in my life. This is the fight game. This is the sh*t talk business. It’s just like fighting in the UFC. You see these guys ripping at each other in ugly press conferences and getting personal. I don’t necessarily enjoy that energy, but the payoff is, I get to go in a ring and get to blacken eyes and chip teeth and make Drew sob and do whatever else in my head that I hope to do to him.
It felt really ugly, but then I was like, showing that footage isn’t going to help them or hurt me, so whatever. Being a top draw in two different companies is pretty wild. Thanks, guys.
While many questioned the decision to show the footage it did lead to the return to AEW of Jack Perry who is now TNT Champion and a firm part of The Elite alongside The Young Bucks and Kazuchika Okada.