Cody Rhodes Responds To Claims That CM Punk Asked AEW For Too Much Money

It’s been years since CM Punk has officially wrestled a match, but there are still quite a few people out there who are hoping to see him return one day.

It was rumored some time ago that CM Punk was in talks with AEW, but the two sides didn’t move forward on a deal.

Konnan recently claimed on his Keepin It 100 podcast that CM Punk asked for an “astronomical amount” of money to sign with AEW, and Cody Rhodes addressed the claim during an interview with talkSPORT.

“As far as the CM Punk negotiations go, everyone heard the famous ‘he got a text from us’. Yeah, of course there were negotiations and he did ask for a great amount of money and Punk is worth a great deal of money. But you also have to – and this isn’t speaking to Punk specifically, this is speaking to recruitment and what we’ve learned in wrestling in general – a lot of people think ‘these wrestlers are running this wrestling company’. These wrestlers are doing everything they can to run the creative, the brand and the marketing and things, but there are some very smart and fiscally conservative people who surround us and flank us because this isn’t my money. At all.”

Cody also noted that he doesn’t think the negotiations think, “ever got too serious.”

He went on to say that he believes he and Tony have a good relationship with Punk.

“Doesn’t mean they won’t one day, but they never got entirely too serious. I think there is a good relationship there. I think I have a good relationship with Phil, I believe Tony does too and I’m not sure really when it comes to him, it’s not so much about the money. It’s about are you interested in doing this? Because the price tag becomes a lot more justifiable if you’re genuinely interested in what we’re doing at the high speed we’re doing it. And again, that’s not even specific to him, just in general, if the passion is not there, the money is not there.”

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