I just came in to say I find this hilarious and that I and others called it and said he would be back in WWE and that AEW fukked up and this is on Tony and the Elite and their "locker room cancer" propaganda campaign they went on with Dave because they were fearful for their spots smh letting one of wrestlings biggest draws walk out the door.
And you can reply and say oh Collision's ratings were shyt and Dynamite was shyt etc - but if you book around someone like Punk properly, and you build storylines properly, people will tune in and see him where he is. Now he's back in WWE and they sold over 32k tickets in two days in Chicago (Smackdown + Survivor Series) and made over 83 million views across social media in 24 hours.