Mark Henry weighs in on CM Punk being released by AEW.
On Saturday evening, Tony Khan and AEW announced that CM Punk's contract had been terminated. Punk was involved in an incident backstage at AEW All In where Khan said he feared for his life and innocent people were endangered.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, AEW talent Mark Henry was asked if he thought AEW was in a better place without Punk. Henry said, "Yes" and then elaborated by saying, "Now, you can freely go and there will be no more complaining. There should be no more complaining. The problem is gone. The so-called problem is. Everything should be shits and giggles and unicorn pee and rainbow blankets. That's what it should be now. I'm curious to see how it's going to be. The problem is solved."
Bully Ray went on to compare Punk leaving to a star player who had off-court drama leaving and how it affected the team. Dennis Rodman's name was brought up.
"When Rodman left, the team got worse. When he left Chicago, they got worse. San Antonio, they got worse. Detroit got worse when he left because he was a defensive stalwart. 'I'm gonna go against your best player and I'm going to make his life miserable. It's going to affect his offense.' As far as Punk is concerned, it's not the offense affected, it's the money, the gates, the live events, the brass tax dealing with licensing products and merchandise money coming in. Money is going to be affected. Still, everything is solved now. The problem is gone, and there should be peace and prosperity in life," said Henry.
Dave LeGreca mentioned that fans got tired of talking about the Punk drama, to which Henry commented, "That's Punk's fault?" LeGreca and Henry both agreed that "public perception wise" Punk was being blamed for much of it.
Henry stated that he didn't know what happened backstage at All In, but that details of it were quickly out and details have continued to come out. It was said that leaks needed to be controlled.
"There have always been stooges and moles," said Henry. "You want to nip that in the bud and put punishments out there for it. If you find out this person did this or leaked that, how can you trust that? You have to have hard punishments for that. I don't think there is. I think people feel they're going to get a slap on the wrist if anything, so they're going to keep exposing what happened behind the scenes. It sucks."
Henry went on to say that he hopes Tony Khan becomes more of a boss and less of a friend coming out of this.
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