Felix Upton on August 29, 2023
CM Punk and Jack Perry were suspended over their backstage fight before All In London’s main show went live. This ordeal rubbed a lot of people in the company the wrong way.
CM Punk wasn’t finished with Jungle Boy, because he offered to fight Miro later on. This was quite situation, and a lot of people were turned off by the whole thing. In the end, Tony Khan was almost a victim of the random violence.
Bryan Alvarez noted on Wrestling Observer Live that Samoa Joe was furious about this situation with CM Punk and Jack Perry. He came through the curtain angry about things.
“Several people said he [Punk] threatened to quit and he didn’t want to go out for the match…I believe they went to FTR and The Young Bucks and they were like, ‘can you guys open the show?’ and the response was, ‘we’re not ready to open the show.’ Then they went to the six-man with Kenny and Hangman and all those guys and they were like, ‘can you open the show?’ and they were like, ‘I guess we can’ and so they were getting ready to go out. I was told that Joe was just furious. He’s at Wembley, there’s 80,000 people there and he’s about to go out and apparently, he talked Punk into doing the match.”
Bryan Alvarez said that the whole CM Punk and Jack Perry drama killed morale within the company. This was especially tragic considering the historic day that the drama overshadowed. Some stars are upset that this fight took so much attention from the Wembley Stadium show.
Bryan Alvarez went on to discuss how CM Punk and Jack Perry’s fight was a huge story. This is not something that AEW wants to hear, and it is upsetting, but it is also a harsh reality.
Samoa Joe was not the only person who was upset over this drama. A lot of people backstage were turned off as two people having a backstage scuffle that lasted seconds was able to put a damper on the entire show.
What’s your take on CM Punk and Jack Perry’s confrontation? Sound off in the comments to let us know if it’s the biggest story to come out of All In!
August 29, 2023 4:29 pm
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