Could the news of backstage tension between CM Punk and AEW be part of a wider story?
FTR’s Dax Harwood was definitely hinting that Sunday, posting a photo of himself and Punk in the backstage area, with the AEW World Champion posing with a jaw punch. In the caption, Harwood referred to reports of Punk being unhappy at AEW.
“He gave me the ‘jobber jaw punch’ pose,” Harwood wrote on twitter, “And if you can’t tell, she’s very sad.”
According to Fightful Select, Punk’s unhappiness stemmed from a promo given to “Hangman” Adam Page during their feud for the AEW World Championship earlier this year. In the promo, Page called on Punk to take “a big game about workers’ rights”, but have been doing “the exact opposite” since showing up in AEW, and asked Punk to double or “all” before their match. vowed to defend elite wrestling”. Nothing.
In last week’s “AEW Dynamite”, Punk went off-script and called Page out, reportedly considered “a receipt” for subsequent comments.
Amidst the ongoing drama, Punk is set to fight Jon Moxley in an AEW World Championship title unification match at “AEW Dynamite” in Cleveland, Ohio this Wednesday. Despite the match being earlier than expected, according to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer newsletter, Punk vs. Moxley is once again planned for an all-out pay-per-view on September 4. There is also growing speculation that MJF will return during Wednesday’s match for the first time since his pipe bomb on June 1.
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