Transcribe from the Wrestle Purists stream yesterday when Ibou was talking and spoke to his sources:
-Says this has been in the works for a few weeks and the news yesterday was basically what everyone had been sitting on (Once Meltzer gave his take, everyone was like "Well this is what I got" ie Hausman, PWinsider, Fightful, described it as scrambling.)
-Punk pretty much still has the itch and felt he was back as a performer and unlike his time a decade ago, he still wants to wrestle despite drama which wasnt the case before. You can look at that as spite and the fact this time the drama is self inflicted this time and there's some desperate course correction I suppose. Basically it was either the E or Impact
-He said the deal is not 100% done in terms of legalities. He said unlike other times when a wrestler joins a company and verbal agreement is done and its just the contract pending, this deal requires a lot of legalities to protect both sides. But he did stress they are "Further than talks"
-He said accompanying to the talks, a source in WWE told him Punk would have meetings with any talent he had heat with to clear the air. The WWE Source told them they dont want to do the roster seperation like on Collision. For what its worth Punk is 100% down to squash shyt and the other sides are down to talk (Meaning they wanna insure that lf he comes back Survivor Series, in a hypothetical situation he could have no problem working a segment or match with say Kevin Owens for instance) he made it clear other wrestlers are "100% down to meet with Punk and work things out" (Im sure this will be spun in different ways by either E or Dub fans as showing maturity or crawling back/checking in) WWE's reasoning no surprise is if they cant get Punk and others to squash shyt then you cant do money matches and then why sign him. "Both Punk and WWE are activley working together put this thing together"
Heres the most interesting part of the stream:
-His source told him that WWE is kinda motivated to show that they can work with Punk and that all parties can get along unlike in AEW and that a big part of this thing is to show they are the company that can sort problems out (Again we can already predict how this will be spun by fans of both companies). They look at it as almost a recruiting tool to others to show they can figure things out and do business (Later on in the stream when talking about next Tuesday he had an interesting convo with his WWE and AEW sources about the NXT-Dynamite match up and how both sides absolutley are motivated to go to war and thats why announcing Taker was a reaction to seeing what Tony would put out to counter Cena annoucement etc.)
-Discussed matches for Punk and he believes from the source that WWE and Punk will book him in matches with people that he has heat with just to show he can do business . He said his WWE source implied that if the deal is done it will broadcasted heavily that Punk and others can work and be like "This is what real companies can do" lot of moving parts for hammer down. Also mentioned Punk is happy to put over top indie guys in the fed (Owens, Rollins) which to be fair he was told was Punk's motivation in AEW (Hence the starks thing)
It seems for now both Punk and WWE are kinda motivated to work with each other to show they can do what AEW couldnt after brawl out
Im here for it though
