In seriousness, while I love AEW, Tony Khan has to understand that 40 year olds with a Injury History just don't make good champions. Punk hobbled himself jumping into a sea of neckbeards, and if we are going by Fish's twitter, Punk probably needs another surgery with WWE doing much better with their product. Go with Starks, Hobbs, Page, MJF, rely on your young talents. Punk is a nice story, but really he shouldn't be champion as his match with Page was sloppy shop.
This goes for Omega as well and Bryan, just injury prone.