There's a long term plan with this happy-go-lucky Punk stuff, right?

[THE 101]

There's gotta be, you'd think? Because if not

This man is coming out every week yammering like someone who had a near death experience and now just wants to appreciate how precious life is. Over a month straight of doing this shyt....we got it bruh you're happy

Are they purposely trying to get the crowd to turn on him to set up a heel turn? The Philly crowd felt like they were ready to go

 

[NoMorePie]

Bro

You're going against the grain

Can't bash aew here

People get too sensitive

 

[010101]

basically he's a mc/commentator/performer

he's dropped all gimmicks for now

he's phillip brooks not cm.punk right now

*

 

[Reality Check]

Are they purposely trying to get the crowd to turn on him to set up a heel turn? The Philly crowd felt like they were ready to go

Best guess is they're going the Jericho route in WWE (I forget which comeback it was) where he had the lighted jacket and smiled, but didn't do shyt. Have a feeling he'll turn heel and be the first feud for Hangman when he wins the title.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

give it some time

 

[InstantKlassik]

It’s like they are booking him week to week with no plan for the future. They did the same thing with Stink for 2 months.

 

[TOAD99]

There's gotta be, you'd think? Because if not

This man is coming out every week yammering like someone who had a near death experience and now just wants to appreciate how precious life is. Over a month straight of doing this shyt....we got it bruh you're happy

Are they purposely trying to get the crowd to turn on him to set up a heel turn? The Philly crowd felt like they were ready to go

I felt the Philly crowd was ready to start booing him also

It’ll be funny if they kept going the pandering route until he gets booed

right now he feels like a make a wish kid happy to be there with the promos

 

[Tres Leches]

He’s just doing what cena used to do every Monday

 

[The Rainmaker]

He's gonna keep doing the same thing until no one catches him in one of those stage dives he does. That will trigger the heel turn.

 

[Silkk]

Doesn’t make sense how they don’t/didn’t already have dudes first 2-3 feuds already mapped out

 

[Superkick Party]

No one in the Philly crowd was about to boo him

Literally everyone was standing up the whole time cheering him and did so until he left

 

[AKM-95]

I honestly think this is AEW getting Punk into ring shape. They don't run house shows and he's probably not into bumping around at a random gyms so he's working with cats to give back and to get him ready for his real run.

 

[Paper Boi]

I mean these crowds are going nuts, people haven’t got to see him live in almost a decade.

I’m sure he will eventually go heel, but doing it anytime soon seems like it would be doing the fans a disservice and that’s more of WWE’s thing than AEW.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

i think AEW has this idea where they know EXACTLY what the fans want...and they also know its predictable to give them exactly that up front...so they subvert your expectations and slowly make their way back to the obvious destination...

they already (successfully) did this with the entire Elite...when AEW started we assumed Kenny/Cody would be immediate champs and Young Bucks would be the only tag champs forever..and they purposely had Kenny in a tag team and losing big matches....purposely had the Bucks losing to Private Party & shyt like that....then they slowly made their way to those people being champions (minus Cody which is still bubbling).....

it's off-putting at first...but its not always gonna be a perfect outcome like Danielson vs Omega straight out the gate...

one thing i do like is it gives us something to look forward to. if Punk comes out and immediately destroys all the top guys then whats left for next year and the year after that?

 

[mannyrs13]

They gotta start building more for full gear soon enough so they'll prolly try and do something with him soon.