With tickets happening sale this week for his or her return to Wembley Stadium for subsequent August’s All In PPV, AEW proprietor Tony Khan and a few of his greatest stars have been doing a whole lot of interviews. And since CM Punk — who was fired from AEW after this 12 months’s All In, the place he had a backstage altercation with fellow wrestler Jack Perry that concerned Khan — returned to WWE final Saturday evening (Nov. 25) at Survivor Sequence, a lot of these interviews have included questions on Punk.
Legal professionals had been reportedly concerned in Punk’s dealings with Khan & AEW administration all through his eventful run with the corporate. Most assumed there can be non-disclosure and disparagement agreements on each side after they lastly went their separate methods. Khan stated as a lot the primary time he was requested about Punk’s reunion with WWE, saying it wasn’t one thing he may “legally discuss”.
However given one other probability by the New York Post’s Joseph Staszewski, Khan had somewhat extra to say. Staszweski gave him somewhat extra room to talk on Punk by asking AEW’s head honcho about “the constructive contribution Punk made throughout his two-plus years within the firm”. Khan, who proudly trumpeted Punk’s drawing potential for AEW throughout his run, nonetheless praised him whereas specifying that he wasn’t solely accountable:
“The First Dance was an unimaginable second in wrestling and was a part of an important time in AEW. All Out 2021, together with All In, are our greatest pay-per-views of all time and we’ve had a whole lot of nice success as an organization as a staff and in a number of the most fun instances, CM Punk has been a giant a part of that staff.”
“Crew” isn’t a phrase many people would use to explain AEW’s locker room throughout Punk’s tenure, however once more, Khan’s doubtless not allowed to say something detrimental. And this little bit of promotional spin does acknowledge some positives from Punk’s time within the firm.
Plus, it sounds rather a lot higher than “my legal professionals inform me I can’t say something”.
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