CM Punk FIRED from AEW; Returns to WWE

[Busby]

That’s the thing that doesn’t seem to make sense to me. Why would you go back to a working environment where even MORE people don’t fukk with you?

IF he goes back to WWE just as a to AEW, I will forever look at him like

After ALLLLLLL that shyt you talked, falling out with your BFF cause of your shyt talking, losing your love for wrestling just off being so frustrated and bitter from that said company. After ALL that and you STILL go back? He would literally become everything that he hates…

Everything he stood for would mean nothing if he goes back. Real wrestling fans will forever lose a bit of respect for him..

But then again…Kendrick taught me that at the end of the day. He is not your savior…

So it is what it is

Welp…this aged well.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

What's the over/under before we hear backstage drama involving Punk

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Punk fans are hilarious...

 

[Instant Classic]

This is the wildest thing to happen this year, and it's hilarious how many people were saying Punk is done. WWE is a business and they're always about money. It's hilarious that Jungle Boy of all people caused the downfall of AEW because AEW lost their momentum with how they treated Punk.

 

[Jmare007]

Anyone that's not a ratings/merch mover is up for termination. The Elite also fit that bill now since their segments are losing the most viewers. Wrestling has moved past the glory days of The Elite.

The Young Bucks are the ones that in the past two years have lost any semblance of drawing they once had. At this point they are completely useless because they cost too much money and have no positive impact in money metrics nor the TV product.

The problem Khan had was the losing them meant losing Omega and probably Hangman Page (which, regardless of what one might think of him as a performer, is a good guy to have around in the upper midcard, like the Mox and Swerve feuds showed). Kenny is still an important draw and AEW couldn't afford to lose him, specially with WWE being about him.

If there was a way to let the Young Bucks go but keep Omega, TK should've 100% go for that. But I don't think that was a realistic option.

 

[Dynamite James]

 

[CBoz]

Yes Punk went to NXT as WWE Champion. Now imagine if they used him on current NXT TV the next time they have to go head to head.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

This is the wildest thing to happen this year, and it's hilarious how many people were saying Punk is done. WWE is a business and they're always about money. It's hilarious that Jungle Boy of all people caused the downfall of AEW because AEW lost their momentum with how they treated Punk.

AEW's momentum was gone well before Jungle Boy. Brawl Out and the aftermath was what really fukked AEW but it wasn't quite understood at the time because it took a minute for the downward spiral to happen. But it planted the seeds.

I was one of the people saying it's crazy that Tony isn't making Punk fight the Bucks on the ALL IN show but because they sold 80,000 and all that it was like, meh whatever..

But the seeds were planted that TK had lost control of his own company and wasn't going to do anything to restore his power over the performers.

 

[Spartan]

I can't believe people actually pay dumb fukks like Stooge Ross fakkit money. Guy is habitually exposed for not knowing shyt.

 

[CM_Burns]

AEW's momentum was gone well before Jungle Boy. Brawl Out and the aftermath was what really fukked AEW but it wasn't quite understood at the time because it took a minute for the downward spiral to happen. But it planted the seeds.

I was one of the people saying it's crazy that Tony isn't making Punk fight the Bucks on the ALL IN show but because they sold 80,000 and all that it was like, meh whatever..

But the seeds were planted that TK had lost control of his own company and wasn't going to do anything to restore his power over the performers.

The history being rewritten is funny. AEW had serious buzz in Fall 2021 with Punk, Bryan, and Cole coming in in 1 month, a great All Out PPV, then Kenny vs Bryan time limit draw. Some time over the next 6 months, things cooled down. Definitely well before All Out 2022. CM Punk had become another top guy, like Jericho or Mox, in the months before he left the 1st time.

 

[CBoz]

OK so I was wrong. She seems to confirm she would be healthy enough. Oh god, it might be a possibility now.



Btw that's Izzy, the girl that Sasha made cry in NXT.

 

[Killah Ray]

OK so I was wrong. She seems to confirm she would be healthy enough. Oh god, it might be a possibility now.



Btw that's Izzy, the girl that Sasha made cry in NXT.

We fukk around and get an AJ return on top of it, the internet may literally implode…

 

[thaKEAF]

 

[Sghost597]

The history being rewritten is funny. AEW had serious buzz in Fall 2021 with Punk, Bryan, and Cole coming in in 1 month, a great All Out PPV, then Kenny vs Bryan time limit draw. Some time over the next 6 months, things cooled down. Definitely well before All Out 2022. CM Punk had become another top guy, like Jericho or Mox, in the months before he left the 1st time.

AEW Revolution 2022 felt like the peak. Then... Injuries, drama, and product oversaturation without the backstage creative minds to support it. The show lacking any sort of creative growth or guidance gives the product really big highs and lows. Then, you have talent acquisition after talent acquisition that leads to underutilization and halting momentum.

AEW growing pains without any ability to course correct or leading a huge amount of apathy for casual fans. It's just dream booking matches on 6 hour PPV that no casual want to commit too in the slightest.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

The history being rewritten is funny. AEW had serious buzz in Fall 2021 with Punk, Bryan, and Cole coming in in 1 month, a great All Out PPV, then Kenny vs Bryan time limit draw. Some time over the next 6 months, things cooled down. Definitely well before All Out 2022. CM Punk had become another top guy, like Jericho or Mox, in the months before he left the 1st time.

AEW Revolution 2022 felt like the peak. Then... Injuries, drama, and product oversaturation without the backstage creative minds to support it. The show lacking any sort of creative growth or guidance gives the product really big highs and lows. Then, you have talent acquisition after talent acquisition that leads to underutilization and halting momentum.

AEW growing pains without any ability to course correct or leading a huge amount of apathy for casual fans. It's just dream booking matches on 6 hour PPV that no casual want to commit too in the slightest.

The buzz at dynamite in Arthur Ashe stadium . I think it was my first wrestling event since wrestlemania 24 and it felt so much like they were turning a corner