So, let's start with
#PortfolioDay
because my history is not known or as
@CeeHawk
says I should flex the resume a bit.
Well let's start from the first. 2011/2012 I ran a wrestling/music blog. I interviewed Mia Yim, Savio Vega, OVW Champions, indie artists and more.
WWE having a good show in Puerto Rico with a great crowd helps wrestling.
AEW selling over 70,000 tickets to All In helps wrestling.
As a wrestling fan, I only want to see good things happen for the industry as a whole.
As someone who works in wrestling periodically tho...
Bucks put the Counterfeit Bucks line in their bio, Punk gets the line approved by AEW management, vibe backstage at Collision was great, big week ahead, Fightful confirms Bucks telling people things are ok, Omega's post show promos hinting, Omega joke on BTE...
Dave:
โThereโs a lot of divisiveness. (in AEW)โ itโs worse now than itโs been. It hasnโt gotten better, right now its at a pretty bad point again.
Itโs the (CM Punk) promo โ Well, the promo and the ESPN story. Yeah.โ
- Dave Meltzer
(via POST Wrestling)
AEW existing gave us another platform to see The Golden Elite, CM Punk vs Samoa Joe again all within a 2-3 week period, with Chris Hero working at AEW as well.
This company existing saved professional wrestling at its core. Flaws aside.
Hangman Page don't owe you an apology.
CM Punk don't owe you an apology.
Kenny Omega don't owe you an apology.
The Young Bucks don't owe you an apology.
For one, nigga you don't work in AEW or amongst these people. You are a fan. Lol we are fans. No one owes you shit.
Honestly, this is where AEW needs a Conflict Resolutions Manager. You got a bunch of niggas in they feelings about shit in the company, one paranoid guy who was isolated while tryna make amends, EVPs who won't even sit down and clear the air with said guy. These are grown ass men
Yes, CM Punk wore a gold suit that made it tough to execute a great GTS on portly Samoa Joseph.
Yes, it didn't look great.
Nah, its not that big of a deal.
Yes, I still wanna see Omega vs Punk.
Yes, yall still corny.
No, I don't wanna see Hardys vs Bucks x 7.
Hope it helps
This match was like a 2013 Punk masterclass condensed into 14 minutes. The Rana, the Pepsi Plunge, the 5 Moves of Doom, the Hogan/Cena callbacks, the peak of CM Punk in AEW since he's been back.
One of the many sweet moments from this match. Joe scouted the crossbody attempt and walked off, Punk scouted the walk off and did a rana! He always has at least one โI can actually do this move tooโ moments on every big show.
The Elite don't owe you no apology, you are a fan.
CM Punk don't owe you no apology, you are a fan.
If seeing either one of them on your TV triggers you or gives you grief, please seek the help you so desperately need. It will get better (I hope)
The last image of Punk on AEW TV is him holding up 1 finger triumphant after a great match with his greatest indie rival in front of 80,000 after he just shut up a young clown backstage.
Not a bad way to go out tbh lol
Punk definitely didn't try ro ruin AEW and you niggas is clowns for suggesting it. Especially for those who are in the know. Agendas shouldn't be this important. Lol
Some people may not want to acknowledge it but CM Punk has had one of the greatest careers ever in professional wrestling.
From the IWA Mid-South beginnings to making his name known in Ring of Honor, Punk was truly a pioneer of the indies.
You know.
The more you think about what happened following Brawl Out to now.
If the Bucks weren't the ones babbling to the sheets like I was told, its not hard to see who was. Judging by this recent chain of events.
That is all.
This really all started over Colt being moved to ROH and niggas blaming Punk for it when quite literally Colt has done NOTHING in AEW since arriving there, which meant he was perfect for ROH in that sense.
This is what started all of this. Rumors and side talk. Lol
A lot of people feel this way about AEW because its been exposed for what it is.
The same as any wrestling promotion. People thought it was some magical land and its just a typical wrestling promotion of egos and bullshit. Lol
In our new
@FightfulSelect
report, Punk's frustration had grown to the point where he told several people "I hate this place" regarding AEW. The frustration with has grown within many members of the roster as well.
Full story on Fightful Select for subscribers
I've watched Elite fans complain about seeing people in AEW on AEWBotches account only to turn around and make videos of a few Punk botches.
Do fans not realize they are literally becoming the people they complain about?
Niggas who be WWE stans be weird cause niggas will be like "yall up here defending AEW" while..... they... literally be standing up for Vince and WWE. What are we doing here lol
I'm watching niggas sit up here and say "all Punk has to do is stay quiet and handle things privately"
While he's responding to like 8 months of rumors and dirtsheet stories put out to down his character lmao its no way you niggas is telling me u staying quiet that long lmao
For those who do not understand why Tony is including the contract tampering in the tweets about his mother, it is because several talents and WWE saw it as an opportunity to utilize a vulnerable time for him to capitalize on him releasing talents for their own "family reasons".
Punk apologized, sat out for months, gotta work a Saturday show and 9 month feud with Jericho.
I feel like the fans who dislike Punk should be happy because that's more than enough punishment!
Source close to Gary Payton II: Warriors still have slim chance to retain GP2 but it appears they've hit their limit (TPMLE), which doesn't compete with offer from Trail Blazers. He has history in Oregon and would be very comfortable in PDX.
Hey, if Punk had been sending people home and it never leaked out the last 2 months, why did things leak out after the Hangman joke and why is Nemeth even getting a headline for having a convo with Punk.
Jordan Poole had a quiet night and then hit the dagger 3 in Game 3. Hereโs Poole and Steph Curry discussing that shot and Pooleโs confidence to always take it.
Ben Simmons believes the 76ersโ tactics are worsening his mental health instead of supporting him, and want to deem him mentally fit in order to force him to play.
Quotes from his agent, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, and response from team officials:
So the Lakers-Warriors game last night was the most watched game on ESPN since Warriors-Blazers in the 2019 West Finals.
I know Adam Silver is praying for the Warriors to beat Memphis tomorrow.
AEW still has these money matches in the chamber:
Danielson vs Cole
Danielson vs Punk
Punk vs Omega
Punk vs Cole
Cole vs Darby
Danielson vs Darby
Mox vs Punk
Punk vs Starks
Omega vs Cole
Punk/Danielson vs Bucks
Punk/Mox vs Bucks
Punk/FTR vs Omega/Bucks
And MANY more
I think the lack of reading people have done is insane on this Punk thing. Punk confronted dude for talking shit. They talked it out, shook hands and moved on lol can yall move on dawg it aint that deep
If Tony Khan fires Punk, a man who got off his couch to come join a company he saw potential and vision in, because of an isolated incident that can be worked out if all parties are willing, then that is not showing you make "tough decisions" it shows you are not willing.
Dave and Bryan have made themselves look absolutely horrible throughout this whole ordeal.
Say what you want about Fightful, but Sapp, Will and them guys have not made themselves look nearly this badly. Like its a bad look media wise.
Implying Vince was the only one who kept niggas in line where there are stories of Nailz beating his ass, Bret/Vince, HBK and backstage fights, Austin walked out, Hogan left, Savage might have fu... nvm, etc is a slight bit disingenuous.
Because we've heard complaints for years
Mase offered 2 million cash for his publishing. Diddy ain't take it. You know why? Harlem World and all them residuals prolly worth more than 2 million in the long run. Mase had to go scam religious folks to make money. Sad.
Implying that there is no Crohn's disease for Swole and that its a cover up shows that you mfs are insane. Aerial been dealing with that for ages, idc if you WWE or AEW fan, stop speaking on shorty health situation and using it for yo wrestling agendas. Onnaset
I do feel like AEW takes talent frustration or criticism the wrong way. I seen it firsthand after the album. We adults. And men (in theory at least). We can disagree or have moments and talk em out like adults. But if your communication stinks, NOTHING GETS RESOLVED.
I seen a nigga say "TK can you book Miro, Hobbs and House of Black as regular acts" and a fan said "its more to wrestling than booking dream matches every week, give it a break"
LMAO WHAT
Brian Kendrick was set to have one AEW match and niggas came outta nowhere with videos he was involved in lol. He was in WWE and no one cared about them videos. He back in WWE and no one talking about them videos. Lol none of this shit is real
Mox acting like he did Punk a favor when essentially Punk got squashed by him and willingly did business heading into All Out and then Punk praised him during the Scrum. Not really sure what's the thing here tbh
โSo even me being in this room & offering & agreeing to a storyline that puts you over at the PPV, if anything, I am bending over backwards for Tony (Khan) & for this dude (CM Punk)โ
- Jon Moxley on meeting with CM Punk/Tony Khan whilst not under AEW contact
(via The Sessions)
Hey so I saw this and wanted to say.
Punk not cheating on AJ with no fucking Cora Jade and you wanting it to be true to fuel some random vendetta you got against bruh is some weird shit. Yall are stupid. And very strange. Yall don't know that man at all dawg.
"They're not trying to sell out the 70K seat stadiums. They only wanna do 25-30K"
Then why run a 70K seat Stadium? Lol just run a 18-21K seat arena and sell it out.
WWE fire people every quarter under contract but two dudes ask for their release multiple times and they refuse to let em go. Company hilarious tbh lol not even using these niggas for nothing major lol but keeping em. Lol
Punk gets squashed and loses himself in Cleveland, the same place he walked out of his previous company.
Has to remember who he is in Chicago, the city he's from and made his triumphant return. I get it. Its a wonky story some, but I see where its going.
July 2021-December 2021 was an absolute masterclass in professional wrestling by AEW and I'm glad I was there for it.
But this shit? Every reason I left wrestling as a fan and a part of it years ago has been shown to me AGAIN. Lol nothing changes in this business slime.
So, let's sum this article up.
-Hangman did go into business for himself based on a lie
-Hangman never apologized for it
-Punk overreacted at the scrum and admits he went about it wrong
-Tony should have handled this better
-Someone in the Elite camp def fueled Colt rumors
I often think that if Punk's issues in AEW were with non Elite clique people... then how would it have been perceived on several ends. Say Punk had issue with an Andrade or even a Sammy like Eddie did.
Would people react the same way or support him like they do others?
The CM Punk discourse is rather false and very weird. The nigga worked his ass off in WWE after the pipebomb and was responsible for most of the better matches and entertaining feuds in 2012 and 2013 Remember 2012, Punk was champion feuding with Daniel Bryan and Kane...
Punk filmed an interview last week with ESPN to debut before Collision premieres.
Apparently some people heard it after Dynamite and now they're mad.
But wait, AEW brass knew about it last week and monitored it. So, who could have an issue and tell Wade Keller. Who? Oh boy