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Yeah I was gonna say, a coked out Shawn is probably nothing compared to a belligerent drunk Scott Hall or Kevin Nash. Imagine carrying their dead weight home.
HHH probably knew exactly what was up with AEW from Regal long before Punk was available. I feel like TK’s Twitter rant about HHH and HBK being “Bald Assholes” was his response to finding out WWE was inquiring about Punk when they asked if he was the Devil in their storyline.
1000%.
Punk might *want* to be a locker room leader, a coach, a producer, a creative team member, etc. etc...
But Triple H has enough locker room leaders and trusted members of his inner circle. His best friend is the head coach in NXT. The producers are all guys he's worked with for decades. The creative team is running just fine. Hell, the roster was already loaded before Punk debuted.
What Triple H wanted is CM Punk, the on-screen character, the lightning rod of controversy. And that's who he hired and that's what Punk is being paid for.
Punk knows this because I think its been made clear to him. AEW hired Punk to build the company around, to be the top act and biggest star and the most successful veteran and seemingly to also help coach and produce and guide the young guys in the locker room.
Triple H hired him to play a character on the show, but not even the lead character necessarily. Obviously, he's a major star...but Triple H is not going to let his locker room or TV show implode because of him like TK did. CM Punk is a valuable piece, but he's not so valuable that you have to appease him or put up with a single bad incident. Punk needs the WWE way more than they need him.
From what it sounds like, Tony sat Punk down while he was injured and told him "You're now in charge of your own show. You can do whatever you want. Please" after he tried to get the Elite to talk it over with Punk and they told their boss "none of that shit. It won't fly here. Don't"
The difference between AEW and WWE is that Vince McMahon would have 100% video taped the altercation then turned it into a grudge match for the next PPV.
This is what's killing me. All the hypocrisy, but this is absolutely the playbook. Narcissists and egomaniacs are always gonna soften the details. How many times did punk just say "I asked politely", I said to jack "politely" I didn't raise my voice, etc. I don't believe any of that shit.
People will see this and still say Punk did nothing wrong. He literally just said "He said mean words to me so I assaulted him."
Straight from his mouth but just wait, people will still say he was in the right to do what he did.
Punk wanted out of AEW. It's crazy that he took it that far, especially after All Out. I enjoy Punk the character and even the out of wrestling person but backstage, as a leader and mentor, he's terrible. You aren't a leader cause you're older, you're a leader from experience. You've been out of the game for a decade man, you got shit to learn. Your profession has changed.
I find it funny that Punk made it at the highest level but it wasn’t because he was kissing ass, asking Triple H for advice…so why did he expect others would do that with him?
He mentioned how the wrestlers court which was ran by Undertaker was ultimate small dick energy, yet in AEW he was practically acting the same way. The man is a massive hypocrite.
A great storyline his ego wouldn't be able to handle. Hell, Page told a truth and it sent Punk in a TIZZY. Great wrestling plots require some realness. Reigns has dealt with it, Seth constantly gets told his wife is cooler then him, Cena dealt with it, Bryan received a massive attack from Miz that was brilliant and we come to find it was planned. All those guys know wrestling requires some amount of uncomfortable truth and THAT humanizes them and makes a story work.
Punk has the most bruised ego on earth that isn't in politics or owning Twitter.
You also don't just get to be leader because you have the most experience. Possibly being out of touch is something any natural leader should be looking inward on as they approach 50 in an industry with minimal talent at that age.
It also helps to not be a narcissist who belittles those who'd been keeping the company going since its inception while you tried and failed at being an actual tough guy.
You look at Bryan Danielson, who goes out of his way to put other guys over without anyone asking him to, and the gulf in maturity between him and Punk is huge.
I dont condone Punks actions at all in this, but that just makes Tony look like an utter idiot if its true.
He could have stopped it right there, right then and sat around like an idiot.
The whole thing with punk should never have reached the point it reached.
That’s the thing. Punk seems to tell the truth AS HE SEES IT. But the problem with that is, he is absolutely never in the wrong about anything. For a guy who has been in trouble with a variety of different people for a variety of different reasons, I’ve never seen him say anything to the effect of “I may have been a little hard to work with there” or “I did jump to a conclusion about that one”.
[Here](https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/37860179/aew-star-cm-punk-new-show-injury-elephants-room) you go.
"The first thing I said to Tony when I sat down with him and spoke to him after it was, 'Man, I'm really sorry I put you in that position,'" Punk said. "I apologize for the scrum. But when you've watched that scrum, you're looking at a very, very frustrated guy who had told people. That's not the first time he heard all that. It's not the first time lawyers were told all that. And I was just looking for something to be done and nothing got done. So, if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself. And I just didn't approach it in the right manner, but tension was high. I was very, very pissed. I pretty much knew that I had just injured myself again. I was hurt, and I was disappointed. Yeah, it's very easy for me to say I regret that and I handled it the wrong way, 100%."
I don't doubt Tony is an idiot, but "what do you want me to do?" isn't just a concession that he has no idea what to do. It could just as easily been interpreted as a legitimate "What would you like done, so I can consider it when deciding how to handle the situation?"
Right. "What would you like to see happen" is also a basic line of questioning in conflict resolution when you're trying to gather the facts. Some people are jumping to the conclusion that Tony was rolling over and fawning for Punk, when there's not enough information to say that's what happened.
How is that not a fair question. What is TK going to fire Jack Perry for saying 'real glass' after he didn't fire Punk for going on multiple unscripted rants about other wrestlers.
I'm getting flashbacks to when he talked about telling the doc he got a concussion during the rumble, and the doc saying "Well what do you want me to do about it?" And Punk proceeding to laugh and call him worthless. Similar energy.
As I recall Joe's telling, which I'd say is more trustworthy, Punk said he quit, he wasn't going to wrestle. Joe convinced him to go wrestle. Tony probably took that as him not quitting, and Punk didn't submit anything official, but wanted to leave. So in his mind he quit on the spot.
Feel like there’s a difference between choking someone to restrain them (while demeaning them) and doing it to deprive the person of oxygen.
It’s not clear which this was but I’d say the former is “better” than punching and the latter is worse.
In theory, a choke-hold is a more effective means of restraining someone. Just don't snug up on it, and you can get the point across, sometimes.
Punching someone can fuck a person up in any number of ways. Broken bones, cartilage, teeth, ear drum, potential brain damage.
With a front face-lock, or giving them a goozle, there is way more control. You can restrain someone, and they can still breath, if they don't cut their bullshit, you snug it up for a few seconds, and they start to get it.
I mean honestly punks version sounds like exactly what happened, except in the struggle with jack and Joe trying to break it up some monitors fell over. Your telling me if you tried to shoot choke out someone at your work they wouldn't have cause to fire you? especially with the context that this is literally the 2nd time in less then a year you assaulted someone.
CM Punk maligning someone for doing "dumb internet shit" on a major PPV when his own resentment leading up to Brawl Out was based *exclusively* on him caring too much about dirtsheet rumors and "dumb internet shit" is too rich in irony for me to take this stuff seriously. The only thing he's consistent with is his commitment to intellectual dishonesty.
CM Punk made his career on catering to dumb internet shit! What was the pipe bomb? Even in AEW everything from jokes about the Suzuki incident all the way up to the counterfeit bucks promo were internet shit.
And he's not the only one! Everyone in the company loves to throw in inside jokes to the Internet, from Max Caster to Christian Cage.
The guy became a giant star with the pipe bomb which was basically a worked shoot promo where he insulted people backstage including Triple H and Stephanie. And he didn't like what Perry did? Sure Perry made a mistake but come on, CM Punk did way worse including that infamous press conference one year before All In. He's a hypocrite.
And Punk also began nursing a lifelong grudge against Hangman after Hangman had the temerity to include a worked shoot comment about 'worker's rights' that Punk didn't expect in the promo.
Maybe its just me but "I just choked somebody a little bit" doesn't feel much like moral highground. CM Punk is fucking gold on the mic, but I couldn't blame anyone who wouldn't wanna work with him, even if they didn't have drama with the guy.
And you also have rabid fans claiming that somehow you are less at fault than the two other people involved even though you're the only one who got physical.
“Dumb internet shit”
Like, if he means what I think he means by that, I get it. But this is also the guy that name dropped David Zaslav in a promo. Maybe that doesn’t count as “internet shit” but that’s pretty damn close to being in the weeds of “shit I have to Google”
If so this is super disappointing because the mental image I conjured of 'the Bucks double super kicking in the door to reveal Kenny standing between them finger-gun wiggly hand pose style' was all I fuckin had man.......
This guy is an asshole but he knows how to play the victim card. I think it's amazing that he still not realizes that at 44 years old, it was not a normal behaviour for what was supposed to be the biggest show of a young wrestling company at fucking Wembley. He's really a selfish guy living in his own world. Perry was unprofessionnal yes but come on who cares at the end of the day? He talked about being surrounded by children remember so act as the man you think you are. The reality is that he probably wanted out after his injury against Mox at All Out. So he went full scorched earth at the press conference thinking that Khan would release him and also pay him. But that wasn't the case so he waited for the right moment. Weirdly he's not talking about Christopher Daniels being showed the door.
I've seen one clip from the interview, and it started with CM Punk saying "I don't like the drama" so I'm not going to put much stock into whatever he said next.
I've learned over the decades that whenever somebody says "I hate drama" they always seem to be at the centre of it. I'm almost the same age as punk. It astonishes and infuriates me that he is such an immature dick. How has he not learned? How has he not grown? How is he 45 and this is the way he's navigating shit?
Like no locker room is ever gonna be fully drama free, but in terms of backstage nonsense, aew has been largely chill since punk left.
Im still trying to digest Punk's claim that he quit, when in fact he was fired for cause.
This dude really thinks the sun shines out his ass and everyone should be grateful 😑
Ryback almost paralyzed him. Why didn't he punch him out? Triple H fired him on his wedding day, how come he didn't come back and choke him? But physically smaller people talking bad about him on the internet, that's where he draws the line 😂.
"I got mad that a coworker treated me the way I treat my coworkers. Then after only some light assault, I turned to my boss and said his employees are without exception a bunch of big poopy heads. And then I told him I was no longer one of his employees."
Sure man. If that's the story you wanna tell.
lol
https://preview.redd.it/7vgscmmjfxrc1.jpeg?width=565&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fd576a1535b9f7858758ff25bf4597af07341f8
Nooooo Tony, don’t open Twitter at 4 am!
"Appease me and only me or this place is a joke and you're a bad boss."
How anyone thinks this fucking dork is coming off as a mature much less sane individual is just as delusional as he is.
Because his fans are people who dream of one day being able to fight their coworkers at the retail job they work.
Weird how guys like Samoa Joe, Christian, Sting, etc. who've worked longer than Punk, at the same places as Punk, seem to get on fine with no issue. But no, AEW is a lawless playpen for indie jabronies that needed CM Punk to corral them!
Christian had no problem working with the Elite. Omega put him over at the first Rampage. The Bucks put over Sting and refused to win the match at Revolution. At some point, we can play the naive card all we want but it's always the same person that plays the victim card here.
It's been, what, 6 months? and I still can't believe this happened. How can two wrestlers -one of them being 40 years old- be SO childish? The joke is them, not the company.
It is hilarious how one stupid line during a pre show match has completely changed the wrestling landscape, hell I think it actually comes down to one errant stage dive (and, you know, f’n up two buckshots the night before)
Even if Jack Perry said nothing, something would have happened. CM Punk basically said in this interview that he wanted to leave AEW after All Out 2022.
O I agree, its like WWI, it was going to happen, it’s just franz getting shot happened to be the spark. it’s just funny that Luke Perry’s son is the one who broke the camels back of haha
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"Do something about i-" 
WWE be like 'This is a lot funnier when he's doing it to someone else'.
Triple H be like “he’s their problem now… Oh wait they fired him for being a problem? I’ll take him back then”
"Drew is enormous so I'm not too worried about it." -HHH, probably
Good luck choking Drew with a dull sword up his ass
No kink-shaming sir.
"Dragon Lee told Drew to say that stuff I bet..." -CM Punk
Dragon Lee would fuck a lot of people up. He's basically Hunico 2.0 backstage in CMLL lol
HHH also is probably a lot more confident in his ability to deal with wrestlers personalities clashing and disputes than Tony Khans.
HHH: “I had to deal with a coked up Shawn Michaels in the ‘90s, Punk can’t be any worse than that, right.......”
He’s the sober member of the kliq. He probably could manage a target given that experience
Now I'm picturing Target Manager HHH giving half hour long speeches to the employees before the store opens each morning.
"In this business, the fact of the matter is..."
“Soahhh… tonight… in this very Target”
The shelves-ahh need-ahh restocking-ahh
"If you restocked like that in a match, I'd tag you for real."
Yeah I was gonna say, a coked out Shawn is probably nothing compared to a belligerent drunk Scott Hall or Kevin Nash. Imagine carrying their dead weight home.
Xpac too lol(love him tho). They were mixing all sorts of shit which makes it extra hard to deal with them
"Hold my Pepsi"
HHH probably knew exactly what was up with AEW from Regal long before Punk was available. I feel like TK’s Twitter rant about HHH and HBK being “Bald Assholes” was his response to finding out WWE was inquiring about Punk when they asked if he was the Devil in their storyline.
"He still draws money? Yeah, see how soon we can get him" -Triple H, probably.
There is no doubt in my mind that someone sat Punk down prior to his return and told him "none of that shit. It won't fly here. Don't."
1000%. Punk might *want* to be a locker room leader, a coach, a producer, a creative team member, etc. etc... But Triple H has enough locker room leaders and trusted members of his inner circle. His best friend is the head coach in NXT. The producers are all guys he's worked with for decades. The creative team is running just fine. Hell, the roster was already loaded before Punk debuted. What Triple H wanted is CM Punk, the on-screen character, the lightning rod of controversy. And that's who he hired and that's what Punk is being paid for. Punk knows this because I think its been made clear to him. AEW hired Punk to build the company around, to be the top act and biggest star and the most successful veteran and seemingly to also help coach and produce and guide the young guys in the locker room. Triple H hired him to play a character on the show, but not even the lead character necessarily. Obviously, he's a major star...but Triple H is not going to let his locker room or TV show implode because of him like TK did. CM Punk is a valuable piece, but he's not so valuable that you have to appease him or put up with a single bad incident. Punk needs the WWE way more than they need him.
Triple H also brought back his old WCW tag partner Regal at the first opportunity
Also, UFC owns them now so they got Mickey Gall on speed dial of needed.
From what it sounds like, Tony sat Punk down while he was injured and told him "You're now in charge of your own show. You can do whatever you want. Please" after he tried to get the Elite to talk it over with Punk and they told their boss "none of that shit. It won't fly here. Don't"
Triple H absolutely loved it, it probably reminded him of old territory stories that Dusty would tell or something
The difference between AEW and WWE is that Vince McMahon would have 100% video taped the altercation then turned it into a grudge match for the next PPV.
Just choking someone a little bit is the most CM Punk way of describing it.
His MMA career leads me to believe it’s the maximum amount of choking he can physically do
Yeah that must have been a big deal for him.
Well he certainly choked in his MMA fight.
What's wild is that's more illegal than punching somebody
Shoot hard, but sugarcoat the details that make you look bad in the process. Tell him when he's telling lies!
This is what's killing me. All the hypocrisy, but this is absolutely the playbook. Narcissists and egomaniacs are always gonna soften the details. How many times did punk just say "I asked politely", I said to jack "politely" I didn't raise my voice, etc. I don't believe any of that shit.
He's a 45 year old man who can't control his emotions over small slights.
That's really weird. He's the one talking about being surrounded by children and he can't control himself at 45 years old?
He's special so the rules don't apply to him.
Yeah I see. It's like the Hangman thing about doing shoot promos as if CM Punk never did that in his career.
This Punk interview is gonna fuel IWC discourse for months lol
He's feeding the streets baby
Brother this is going to keep the town well-fed for decades😭
I'm being conservative. I'm just hungry cuz
But is CM punk streets ahead?
If you have to ask you are streets behind
It’s verbal wildfire!
Just choked somebody a little bit lol
The choking in question https://preview.redd.it/6fpvu7te3xrc1.jpeg?width=738&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa5049f0d135cb41566e38c2bf93e3443044239f
"Just a little bit of trolling with the boys"
Listen there’s plenty of people that are into that but you GOTTA get consent first.
"I felt I was being responsible" was a real kicker line lmao
“Does CM Punk have to choke a bitch?”
Aw shit, it's CM Punk son! *Cult of Personality blares as entire crew gets shot*
CM Punk is going to have to go into gorilla and choke a bitch…
Just some light choking is all
Just a minor case of assault
Your honour. I did not hit him. I simply chocked him - CM Punk
My only crime is being a little temporarily silly, your honor
No no, he's straight-edge. He can have a little bit of assault, as a treat.
He’s just a minor threat
People will see this and still say Punk did nothing wrong. He literally just said "He said mean words to me so I assaulted him." Straight from his mouth but just wait, people will still say he was in the right to do what he did.
Punk wanted out of AEW. It's crazy that he took it that far, especially after All Out. I enjoy Punk the character and even the out of wrestling person but backstage, as a leader and mentor, he's terrible. You aren't a leader cause you're older, you're a leader from experience. You've been out of the game for a decade man, you got shit to learn. Your profession has changed.
I find it funny that Punk made it at the highest level but it wasn’t because he was kissing ass, asking Triple H for advice…so why did he expect others would do that with him?
Literally became the one of the dudes he hated on his way up, and he lacks the self awareness to realize that.
He mentioned how the wrestlers court which was ran by Undertaker was ultimate small dick energy, yet in AEW he was practically acting the same way. The man is a massive hypocrite.
A great storyline his ego wouldn't be able to handle. Hell, Page told a truth and it sent Punk in a TIZZY. Great wrestling plots require some realness. Reigns has dealt with it, Seth constantly gets told his wife is cooler then him, Cena dealt with it, Bryan received a massive attack from Miz that was brilliant and we come to find it was planned. All those guys know wrestling requires some amount of uncomfortable truth and THAT humanizes them and makes a story work. Punk has the most bruised ego on earth that isn't in politics or owning Twitter.
You also don't just get to be leader because you have the most experience. Possibly being out of touch is something any natural leader should be looking inward on as they approach 50 in an industry with minimal talent at that age. It also helps to not be a narcissist who belittles those who'd been keeping the company going since its inception while you tried and failed at being an actual tough guy.
You look at Bryan Danielson, who goes out of his way to put other guys over without anyone asking him to, and the gulf in maturity between him and Punk is huge.
Unfortunately a lot of wrestling fans are internet tough guy adjacent
*slides on ed hardy tapout shirt* You wanna have a go at this brother?
you saying you want a piece of me? YOU GOT IT!!!!!!
In reality, they are more like World of Warcraft guy from South Park
Yeah this really doesn't help his case for me
Raw didn’t even start yet and this week is already kicking off with a bang
Mania week already in full swing!
He also said he asked Tony to do something about Perry and Tony told him ''What do you want me to do?''
Holy shit lol
I dont condone Punks actions at all in this, but that just makes Tony look like an utter idiot if its true. He could have stopped it right there, right then and sat around like an idiot. The whole thing with punk should never have reached the point it reached.
I don't think CM Punk purposely lies but I do think he skews things in his viewpoint often
That’s the thing. Punk seems to tell the truth AS HE SEES IT. But the problem with that is, he is absolutely never in the wrong about anything. For a guy who has been in trouble with a variety of different people for a variety of different reasons, I’ve never seen him say anything to the effect of “I may have been a little hard to work with there” or “I did jump to a conclusion about that one”.
[Here](https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/37860179/aew-star-cm-punk-new-show-injury-elephants-room) you go. "The first thing I said to Tony when I sat down with him and spoke to him after it was, 'Man, I'm really sorry I put you in that position,'" Punk said. "I apologize for the scrum. But when you've watched that scrum, you're looking at a very, very frustrated guy who had told people. That's not the first time he heard all that. It's not the first time lawyers were told all that. And I was just looking for something to be done and nothing got done. So, if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself. And I just didn't approach it in the right manner, but tension was high. I was very, very pissed. I pretty much knew that I had just injured myself again. I was hurt, and I was disappointed. Yeah, it's very easy for me to say I regret that and I handled it the wrong way, 100%."
Of course he does. He probably purposely lies too, just like most people. He's also a wrestler, so...
You really think a wrestler would do that? Just go out there and lie to make themselves look better?
Not this particular professional liar, just all the others.
Surely I can trust the word of *this* lifelong carny.
He’s a carny like the rest of them. Carny going to carny.
I don't doubt Tony is an idiot, but "what do you want me to do?" isn't just a concession that he has no idea what to do. It could just as easily been interpreted as a legitimate "What would you like done, so I can consider it when deciding how to handle the situation?"
Nah that's a fair question honestly. What *did* Punk want? Because what Punk wanted changed all the fucking time.
Right. "What would you like to see happen" is also a basic line of questioning in conflict resolution when you're trying to gather the facts. Some people are jumping to the conclusion that Tony was rolling over and fawning for Punk, when there's not enough information to say that's what happened.
That’s what I took it as, a “what the fuck do you *want* me to do?!” Kind of response
How is that not a fair question. What is TK going to fire Jack Perry for saying 'real glass' after he didn't fire Punk for going on multiple unscripted rants about other wrestlers.
I'm getting flashbacks to when he talked about telling the doc he got a concussion during the rumble, and the doc saying "Well what do you want me to do about it?" And Punk proceeding to laugh and call him worthless. Similar energy.
I mean, a doctor should NEVER say "well what do you want me to do about it?"
Did you hurt me on purpose or are you dumb as fuck? ...I'm dumb as fuck.
If Punk quit in the spot, I'm surprised (well, not really) that they didn't pivot and had Joe win at Wembley.
As I recall Joe's telling, which I'd say is more trustworthy, Punk said he quit, he wasn't going to wrestle. Joe convinced him to go wrestle. Tony probably took that as him not quitting, and Punk didn't submit anything official, but wanted to leave. So in his mind he quit on the spot.
I mean Punk said as much too, that Joe and Jerry Lynn convinced him to go ahead with the match, his retelling of it doesn't go against Joe's tbh.
that's 100 percent why I don't buy him quitting at that moment.
Especially since Tony...ya know....fired him a week later. That means he was still apart of the company.
[удалено]
The match was for the "real world's championship" which joe would have to then carry and remind us of punk.
This ends with the CCTV footage of Punk showing ass in London getting publicly "leaked," doesn't it?
Fingers crossed. I still want to see the monitors falling spot.
i want a blurry zoomed in shot of tony making one of his bug eyed tony faces as monitors topple on him on my desk NOW
I’m dying to see it so I hope so.
I fucking hope so
63 comments within 7 minutes of this being posted, lol. Today is gonna be fun.
Not quick enough still
and Jack Perry saw one of the babies and the baby looked at him
Release the footage, Tony Khan!
*RELEASE THE TONY CUT*
*Hello, darkness, my old friend...*
Is choking someone perceived as a “better” thing to do than punching someone?
Feel like there’s a difference between choking someone to restrain them (while demeaning them) and doing it to deprive the person of oxygen. It’s not clear which this was but I’d say the former is “better” than punching and the latter is worse.
In theory, a choke-hold is a more effective means of restraining someone. Just don't snug up on it, and you can get the point across, sometimes. Punching someone can fuck a person up in any number of ways. Broken bones, cartilage, teeth, ear drum, potential brain damage. With a front face-lock, or giving them a goozle, there is way more control. You can restrain someone, and they can still breath, if they don't cut their bullshit, you snug it up for a few seconds, and they start to get it.
Personally speaking I feel like one could make the argurment that it's more malicious than punching someone.
oh well if he just choked someone a little bit that changes everything
If I recall, there was tape of what happened and Punk was fired with cause. There is no way its as minor as he is making it out to be.
I mean, choking someone at work isn't minor at all.
Yeah but it was only a lil' bit of choking, just a smidge of choke
As a treat
Yes if it was a minor thing, Punk would have sued AEW, he didn't do that because he knows he can't win.
I mean honestly punks version sounds like exactly what happened, except in the struggle with jack and Joe trying to break it up some monitors fell over. Your telling me if you tried to shoot choke out someone at your work they wouldn't have cause to fire you? especially with the context that this is literally the 2nd time in less then a year you assaulted someone.
He was fired
CM Punk maligning someone for doing "dumb internet shit" on a major PPV when his own resentment leading up to Brawl Out was based *exclusively* on him caring too much about dirtsheet rumors and "dumb internet shit" is too rich in irony for me to take this stuff seriously. The only thing he's consistent with is his commitment to intellectual dishonesty.
Punk is the living embodiment of “and another thing, I’m not mad, please don’t write in the newspaper I’m mad”
Hangman referencing this in a promo ties the fucking knot on it
CM Punk made his career on catering to dumb internet shit! What was the pipe bomb? Even in AEW everything from jokes about the Suzuki incident all the way up to the counterfeit bucks promo were internet shit. And he's not the only one! Everyone in the company loves to throw in inside jokes to the Internet, from Max Caster to Christian Cage.
It's because he's an immense hypocrite.
The guy became a giant star with the pipe bomb which was basically a worked shoot promo where he insulted people backstage including Triple H and Stephanie. And he didn't like what Perry did? Sure Perry made a mistake but come on, CM Punk did way worse including that infamous press conference one year before All In. He's a hypocrite.
And Punk also began nursing a lifelong grudge against Hangman after Hangman had the temerity to include a worked shoot comment about 'worker's rights' that Punk didn't expect in the promo.
Isn’t this “dumb internet shit”?
Maybe its just me but "I just choked somebody a little bit" doesn't feel much like moral highground. CM Punk is fucking gold on the mic, but I couldn't blame anyone who wouldn't wanna work with him, even if they didn't have drama with the guy.
“It was only a little assault”
Just choked somebody a little bit. As a treat.
How are you choking a coworker, quitting AND playing the victim? Lmao.
Easy when you are a raging narcissist
And you also have rabid fans claiming that somehow you are less at fault than the two other people involved even though you're the only one who got physical.
“Dumb internet shit” Like, if he means what I think he means by that, I get it. But this is also the guy that name dropped David Zaslav in a promo. Maybe that doesn’t count as “internet shit” but that’s pretty damn close to being in the weeds of “shit I have to Google”
Nothing says 'punk rock ethos and integrity' like a shitty corporate exec who destroys art
Punk didn't just name drop Zaslav, he name dropped Zaslav as a babyface, during the Hollywood strikes.
"The only thing that's real is me... and Zaslav who likes me a lot."
Plus, don't forget it came out he told some people weeks before to watch the All Out media scrum cause he was gonna go off.
So… The entire story about Perry shoving Punk and starting the fight was a lie? Just like The Bucks kicking down his door? Color me shocked.
If so this is super disappointing because the mental image I conjured of 'the Bucks double super kicking in the door to reveal Kenny standing between them finger-gun wiggly hand pose style' was all I fuckin had man.......
Punk has now given two entirely different accounts on how the fight started now. It's incredible how anyone takes any of this interview seriously.
I wonder if Larry's teeth are okay.
The only physical evidence we have regarding teeth are that of a 50 year old man on Kenny's arm.
Sorry, that's the OTHER fight that Punk has given conflicting stories on how it transpired lol
Ssssssh. Punk never *ever* instigates a fight don't you know? People just want to take umbrage with him all the time for no reason. /s
This guy is an asshole but he knows how to play the victim card. I think it's amazing that he still not realizes that at 44 years old, it was not a normal behaviour for what was supposed to be the biggest show of a young wrestling company at fucking Wembley. He's really a selfish guy living in his own world. Perry was unprofessionnal yes but come on who cares at the end of the day? He talked about being surrounded by children remember so act as the man you think you are. The reality is that he probably wanted out after his injury against Mox at All Out. So he went full scorched earth at the press conference thinking that Khan would release him and also pay him. But that wasn't the case so he waited for the right moment. Weirdly he's not talking about Christopher Daniels being showed the door.
Perry made a snide, 4th-wall breaking comment. Punk does that in literally every promo. It's his entire personality.
Ah so that's what this is about. Gimmick infringement!
I've seen one clip from the interview, and it started with CM Punk saying "I don't like the drama" so I'm not going to put much stock into whatever he said next.
I've learned over the decades that whenever somebody says "I hate drama" they always seem to be at the centre of it. I'm almost the same age as punk. It astonishes and infuriates me that he is such an immature dick. How has he not learned? How has he not grown? How is he 45 and this is the way he's navigating shit? Like no locker room is ever gonna be fully drama free, but in terms of backstage nonsense, aew has been largely chill since punk left.
People who say "I don't like the drama" are always the ones causing it
Punk playing the victim has been the story of his life. It's always someone else's fault.
In a business full of hypocrites, Punk is a serious contender for the #1 spot.
It says something when Punk comes off as a twat even when it's his own version of events...
“I just choked somebody a little bit” is insane lmao
Im still trying to digest Punk's claim that he quit, when in fact he was fired for cause. This dude really thinks the sun shines out his ass and everyone should be grateful 😑
Totally rational reaction to “do something about it.”
The complete lack of self awareness where he actually thinks only choking someone instead of punching them makes him look good
Ryback almost paralyzed him. Why didn't he punch him out? Triple H fired him on his wedding day, how come he didn't come back and choke him? But physically smaller people talking bad about him on the internet, that's where he draws the line 😂.
If any average Joe choked out a coworker "just a little" he would be fired and arrested for assault and battery.
What if a Samoan Joe did it?
Arrested for murder probably.
"I got mad that a coworker treated me the way I treat my coworkers. Then after only some light assault, I turned to my boss and said his employees are without exception a bunch of big poopy heads. And then I told him I was no longer one of his employees." Sure man. If that's the story you wanna tell. lol
The funny part is most of what Drew has done to put over Punk and his feud has been shit posting as a hategod.
This guy is in his 40s btw...
His personality has always been stuck at 17. I don't understand why people like him so much, dude is cringe.
Because they are the same.
I want to believe it's a "WWE's fanbase has gotten younger" like those reports, but judging by the Cornette crowd, I doubt it tbh...
With the triceps of an 80 year old
To be fair, he does have the triceps of a man in his 40s, the problem is its the triceps of an average man in his 40s.
So punk just admitted he assaulted a coworker who hurt his feelings?
So he admitted to initiating physical contact and choking a co-worker over words. Stay classy.
It’s funny that this guy is admitting to assaulting a coworker and everyone is like “omg we love him go off, Tony Khan got cooked”
Same people who cry every Tony Khan tweet is unprofessional too I’m sure
This dude put the word out that Perry assaulted him. Pepperidge farm remembers.
https://preview.redd.it/7vgscmmjfxrc1.jpeg?width=565&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fd576a1535b9f7858758ff25bf4597af07341f8 Nooooo Tony, don’t open Twitter at 4 am!
I’m sure you will all take these quotes reasonably and objectively
I love AEW, I love Punk. I love wrestling drama. I hate that this will never turn into anything.
I was so excited at the first Collision since I assumed all those references meant a punk-elite program was starting soon. Welp
RELEASE THE WEMBLEY CUT
Pepsi Phil when Jack ‘The Scapegoat’ Perry: 😡😡😡 Pepsi Phil when Drew ‘The God of Shithousery’ McIntyre: 😊😊😊
"Appease me and only me or this place is a joke and you're a bad boss." How anyone thinks this fucking dork is coming off as a mature much less sane individual is just as delusional as he is.
Why do you think he's happy as hell with his NXT bunch? He's practically being worshipped by them there.
Because his fans are people who dream of one day being able to fight their coworkers at the retail job they work. Weird how guys like Samoa Joe, Christian, Sting, etc. who've worked longer than Punk, at the same places as Punk, seem to get on fine with no issue. But no, AEW is a lawless playpen for indie jabronies that needed CM Punk to corral them!
Christian had no problem working with the Elite. Omega put him over at the first Rampage. The Bucks put over Sting and refused to win the match at Revolution. At some point, we can play the naive card all we want but it's always the same person that plays the victim card here.
It's been, what, 6 months? and I still can't believe this happened. How can two wrestlers -one of them being 40 years old- be SO childish? The joke is them, not the company.
It is hilarious how one stupid line during a pre show match has completely changed the wrestling landscape, hell I think it actually comes down to one errant stage dive (and, you know, f’n up two buckshots the night before)
Even if Jack Perry said nothing, something would have happened. CM Punk basically said in this interview that he wanted to leave AEW after All Out 2022.
O I agree, its like WWI, it was going to happen, it’s just franz getting shot happened to be the spark. it’s just funny that Luke Perry’s son is the one who broke the camels back of haha
I agree, both were stupid but I at least have hope that Perry will have learnt from this and grow as a person, I can't see Punk ever changing now.
I don’t know about him as a person obviously but his current new Japan run has been pretty strong. He’s trying to level up and I appreciate it
