Of course, we have another AEW major event featuring a CM Punk match as well as Punk fighting with younger stars. While the opposing sides are similar, this one started for different reasons at AEW All In London.
The way too long didn’t read of it is that Punk has a significant amount of stroke over on Collision and wasn’t going for Jack Perry wanting to do a spot involving broken glass.
CM Punk vs Jack Perry: The Case for Old Man Phil vs The Youth
Punk allegedly shot the idea down and told Perry after several others were reportedly unable to convince Perry. Of course, Jack would lose his FTW Championship to former champ Hook in a pre-event match that featured a spot involving a glass windshield—not sugar glass by the way.
Perry also pointed out that the glass was real on air during the match and told Punk to “cry me a river.” It should also be noted that match occurred before Punk vs Samoa Joe for the Real AEW World Championship.
Considering Punk is on go time whenever stuff gets spicy backstage, the expected happened and a physical altercation broke out between the two.
Not only that but AEW owner Tony Khan was definitely front row at the fight which went down at gorilla position between the two matches and resulted in Jack Perry being caught in a chokehold.
Now, the way everything is handled, how it tends to escalate into fistfights, and Punk being the constant in both situations—yeah, he was going to be dropped. AEW can’t have the annual CM Punk spanking younger wrestlers incidents.
With that said, the initial stories of this surrounding CM Punk shooting down a spot using real glass only for Perry to be snide on a broadcasted event doesn’t really paint Punk as the villain. It actually paints him as having concern for a younger wrestler’s safety.
It’s the rumor that he felt Jack Perry was trying to get out of work that makes it look bad. But even it’s an issue of wrestler safety. An injury—while avoided—would means up plans when the spot wasn’t necessary. If he spoke up on that matter, he wasn’t wrong.
How he presented it was probably didn’t go over we’ll but at it’s core, it was an unsafe and unnecessary spot.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter anymore as CM Punk has been released and Jack Perry has been suspended indefinitely.One could suppose the issue is resolved at least on that front.
However, it presents a problem as far as booking and keeping Collision going forward.
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