Ahead of Collision and All Out in Chicago last weekend Tony Khan officially announced that CM Punk’s contract with AEW had been terminated. Punk was involved in a backstage altercation with Jack Perry at All In last month, and now it seems that the former AEW World Champion’s run with All Elite Wrestling is over.
Tony Khan directly addressed the fans while talking about CM Punk’s departure, but other AEW names have been quiet for obvious reasons. However, Chris Jericho recently addressed the CM Punk situation on Talk Is Jericho, and he praised Punk’s match with Samoa Joe at All In while sharing some details about a conversation he had with Punk ahead of the match.
“I don’t want to dwell on this or talk about, but I should address it. CM Punk, no longer with AEW, Wembley was his last match, which what a way to go out if you’re going to go out.
“I did speak to him, briefly, I was going to do a frankensteiner off the top, and I know that he does that sometimes, so I was curious if he was going to do it. I went and talked to him for a bit, asked if he was going to do it, he wasn’t. I told him I was going to do the GTS, with a straight face, and I think for a second he thought that I was going to. I was joking, of course
“I did see him that day. It’s a regretful moment, what happened, but Tony Khan made his decision. CM Punk was a big part of AEW from the time he was here and if you’re going to go out, he went out on top by having this big match with Samoa Joe in a sold out stadium.”
H/T Fightful
