“AEW locker room is SAD & EMBARRASSED over CM Punk situation.” | UPDATE: “CM PUNK PUT MY SAFETY, SECURITY & LIFE IN DANGER! HE’S FIRED!” - TONY KHAN
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When Punk made an unadvertised appearance at Dynamite on June 21, PWTorch has learned that he confronted Ryan Nemeth backstage over a tweet where Nemeth indicated loyalty to The Elite. Nemeth had referred to Punk as “literally the softest man alive” in response to Punk referring to the Young Bucks as “Counterfeit Bucks.”
Nemeth is known to be close to the Bucks, as he has appeared in their “Being the Elite” YouTube video series.
At that Dynamite, PWTorch sources indicated Punk confronted Nemeth in the locker room. The story conveyed to PWTorch is that Punk cornered Nemeth in the locker room, got inches from his face, and angrily and aggressively asked if they had a problem or if they needed to settle things outside. Punk cited to Nemeth that his comments on Twitter inflamed existing tensions and that the optics of the tweet sent a bad message. This incident was witnessed by numerous wrestlers and was characterized as awkward and weird.
Nemeth moved the argument to the hallway, where Punk continued to berate him, according to our sources. Nemeth defended his judgment in calling Punk “soft” since Punk fired the first shots at the Bucks. Punk pushed back that his timing was bad and worked against the public image they were going for that everyone was either on the same page or at least not inflaming prior issues. Nemeth then asked Punk if he shouldn’t react to things Punk says on TV and Punk said that’d be the right choice at that time. Then they shook hands, but apparently the tension was still high as they went their separate ways.
Nemeth confided the incident in friends backstage and asked how to handle the situation. Nemeth has almost no leverage in AEW compared to Punk, who is a much bigger star, so Nemeth backed off and laid low, since his job could be at risk if Punk spoke out behind the scenes against him. He even has since deactivated his Twitter account.
I dont know man....I know everyone is suppose to be up in arms about this but if we cant check people talking shyt what can you do. Chicago Phil coming down to see if dudes wanna check in
I mean I don't know shyt about Dolph's brother. But, if he made varsity wrestling at the same High school Dolph did. Then he can damn sure double leg Punk and whoop his ass.
And I like Punk
DoubleJ13
Smooth sailing from here on out...
Redguard
Hoonding
Vic Damone. Jr
Don't support the phonies, support the real
I don’t even think Dixie Carter was this bad a pushover. Kahn is fukking pathetic
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Punk a bytch and not allowing wrasslers (Hangman and Ziggler’s bro) from entering the arena because he has problems with them. TK also a bytch for allowing it.Trying to catch up here and I think I need some cliff notes
reserved_one
#Ambivertgang
At the end of the day it’s all about respect….If you gotta go on Twitter and through dirt sheets to talk shyt about me and not address it face to face then you can 
from my show.
Adam Page thought shyt was sweet and got the boot.
from my show.Adam Page thought shyt was sweet and got the boot.
As time goes on, it becomes more clear that TK is in way over his head. If it's his childhood dream to book wrestling, fine, but let someone else run the day to day stuff and manage the talent. And not one of the wrestlers.
KateFabersBoyfriend
Superstar
Check out The Lapsed Fan podcast. They just did a series of episodes about Hogan's time in TNA. Dixie was worse in some ways compared to Khan.
