CM Punk comments on AEW showing the footage from AEW All In.
On the April 10th episode of AEW Dynamite, The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson) presented backstage footage from AEW All In that showed the altercation between CM Punk and Jack Perry. The Bucks used the footage to claim it was the reason why they lost to FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) at AEW All In.
The incident between Punk and Perry led to Punk being fired from AEW, with Tony Khan saying that Punk put innocent people in danger and that he feared for his life.
Speaking to Jimmy Traina on the SI Media podcast, Punk was asked what he thought when he heard the footage would air.
"It's kind of like....I have to wrestle Drew McIntyre, right? It's this garbage person that I don't want in my life. This is the fight game. This is the shit talk business. It's just like fighting in the UFC. You see these guys ripping at each other in ugly press conferences and getting personal. I don't necessarily enjoy that energy, but the payoff is, I get to go in a ring and get to blacken eyes and chip teeth and make Drew sob and do whatever else in my head that I hope to do to him.
"It felt really ugly, but then I was like, showing that footage isn't going to help them or hurt me, so whatever. Being a top draw in two different companies is pretty wild. Thanks, guys."
Along with building to FTR vs. The Young Bucks, the footage airing led to the AEW return of Jack Perry.
Elsewhere during the interview, Punk was asked about the photo of Tony Khan and Shane McMahon. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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