CM Punk Reveals How Long He’s Been In Talks With AEW, Details About His Deal

It’s been 7 years since wrestling fans have seen CM Punk appear at a wrestling event, and on Friday night he made his long awaited return during AEW Rampage at the United Center.

Fans have been talking about the return of CM Punk ever since he walked away from the business, and during a post-show media scrum following AEW Rampage he revealed that he had been in talks with Tony Khan for about a year and a half.

“I’ll go ahead and spoil that I’ve been talking to Tony for probably a year and a half about this. Some girls are easy to get into bed. I am not. I need to do wined and dined. That’s not, ‘oh I need more money and less dates’ and ‘oh I need this and I need that.’ It was literally just talking to Tony and getting to know him, and the more people that he employed that I knew, I’d ask them questions and they’d tell me things.

I’ve been in the game for a few minutes, you know, so I’ve seen that. I think I traced it back to, especially since the downfall of ECW, every six months to a year, somebody pops up, ‘I have money, we’re gonna have TV and we’re going to use all the ECW guys.’ This is not a slight on Tony at all. It’s more of, it’s more of a slight at me being a paranoid, neurotic, anxiety-ridden, very careful person, and I wasn’t in a hurry. The pandemic kind of help that out, you know, and I knew I couldn’t debut if there’s no people in the building. So, I always say, timing is everything, and there were a lot of happy accidents along the way that made this possible.”

CM Punk was also asked about the length of his contract and while he didn’t reveal specific details he did say that he’s going to be with AEW full-time and the deal isn’t short term.

“We’re going to be doing this for a while. We’re excited. This isn’t a short-term thing or a part-time thing. This is full-time and we’re very excited.”

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