Dave addresses the WBD getting Raw rumour. Confirms that WWE getting Punk revitalzed the talks that were previously dead and had no chance.
Its not likely WBD has the money that WWE wants especially when the priority is keeping the NBA...but if the NBA looks elsewhere it could be the Wrestling network but they would probably be $50 million shy of the 350 mil asking price the Fed wants. He had mentioned on the full pod, it looks like WWE might not actually ask for exclusivity (so theoritically ROH could be on CW with NXT, Raw could Dynamite)
He also doesnt think this is totally bad news for AEW and they arent in trouble. Likely WBD still cant afford WWE and may keep AEW on a lesser price while tryiing to save for the NBA. But...there's obviously people in WB that love Punk cause they said "lets go back to the table with WWE" with all this cost cutting
But the belief is that the Raw deal with someone is finalized with someone and Punk has resulted in WBD making one last pitch.
Says the reason Punk is doing the LA house show is that they want to showcase him to all the network execs in town as they look to find a buyer for Raw (Disney, Amazon, WBD, Universal etc)
This is hilarious because a month ago we thought he could only crawl to Impact and now hes doing numbers that influence business.
Now its completely possible that Punk's camp is floating this out like Sean Ross says...but this Dave report seems like he asked others in WWE cause Punk dont fukk wit him so I dont know whats up. He certainly isnt talking like he got this from Punk's camp which he usually dimsses