CM Punk made his promotional debut at Friday’s AEW Rampage.
On What Happened When, Tony Schiavone talked about the backstage reaction to the debut:
“So he goes out to the go position where everybody bumps fists, we’re all excited. Tony’s excited. And then everybody starts to come out at the go position because we’ve got a monitor out there. I’m telling you, Kenny was out there, the Young Bucks, everybody just – they didn’t wanna sit in the back and just watch it, they wanted to come out, right behind the curtain, and feel it. I’m gonna be honest with you, it was one of those from the heart, just ass-kicking moments wasn’t it? It just was.
“So, he did it and came back, and people were so excited about it. Britt was beside herself that he mentioned her name. I had to get up early the next morning to fly to Detroit to work the Astronomicon in Ann Arbor. So I waited until after the show’s over, I usually ride with Jeff Jones and Jeff Jones has some things he’s gotta do with social media so we hung around a little bit. They had the media scrum, we hung around a little bit, so Jones says, ‘Alright, let’s go’.
“And I walk out, and we’re talking about probably like 11:30pm, maybe midnight, we walk out and Tony Khan’s there with his girlfriend and his driver and some other people, and he says, ‘What are you doing?’. I said I was going to go back to the hotel. And he said, ‘Come on, hop in with me’. So I hopped in with him, and we went out to dinner with Punk and his entourage, and we had some of our people there. Rebel was there. Britt was there. Orange Cassidy stopped by. And I sat beside Tony at the table and CM Punk’s sat across from us and we talked about his return, and it was just a very, very special moment.
“Now, the fact is I had to get up at 3:30 for a 5am flight, so I got back to my room at 2:30am. Yes it was (worth it). So I stayed up all night, I didn’t go to bed, first time I’ve stayed up all night since I don’t know when. But I was really riding a high, I think we all were riding a high, feeling good about our company, about what Tony has done.
“I jokingly told Tony, I said ‘Maybe I should send out a tweet that says this is the greatest moment in the history of our great sport’. He goes, ‘Yes! Yes, that’d be great!’. So, I did.”
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