Last year CM Punk was involved in a backstage altercation with Jack Perry at All In which resulted in him getting fired from AEW. Punk has since returned to WWE, but the backstage altercation was a hot topic for months after his AEW departure. Back in April footage of the infamous altercation aired on Dynamite and the footage got people talking for better or worse.
While speaking on the SI Media podcast CM Punk talked about AEW’s decision to air the footage as he questioned why they would do something that seemingly didn’t help the company.
“It’s kind of like — I have to wrestle Drew McIntyre, right? Just this garbage person that I don’t want in my life. But this is the fight game. It’s just like fighting in the UFC. You see these guys ripping at each other, ugly press conferences, getting personal. And it’s just like, I don’t necessarily enjoy that energy. But the payoff is, I get to go in a ring and I 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.
“So it felt really ugly. But then I was just like — why? Showing that footage isn’t going to help them or hurt me, so I was just like whatever. Being the top draw in two different companies is pretty wild. Like, thanks guys.”
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