Booker T believes that CM Punk could still return to All Elite Wrestling. Of course, CM Punk has been suspended since the post-AEW All Out 2022 backstage brawl. He’s also dealing with a torn left triceps injury, which he underwent surgery for.
Speaking on the latest edition of his “Hall of Fame” podcast, the two-time WWE Hall of Famer pondered whether the Straight Edge Superstar would be willing to return to the company if things were able to be smoothed over.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the possibility of Punk returning to AEW: “Anything’s possible, man, especially in this business. Yeah, they can get past it. I don’t want to, you know, beat a dead horse or anything like that, but if they do get past it, it’s gonna be from the damage control Punk has to do. As far as, like I said before, I don’t want to just keep going around in circles on it. I feel like CM Punk had a hell of an opportunity, because he was in a leadership position with a bunch of young guys that were impressionable. That perhaps looked up to him, and looked to him for guidance, as far as being a guy who like you just said, ‘take us to the promised land.’ And sometimes, you’ve heard that saying, you know, sometimes you may not want to meet your heroes. Because they turned out to be something that you thought was totally different.”
On Punk’s challenge if he does return: “I think if they do work it out, CM Punk is gonna have to really, really understand what this new generation of wrestlers is really all about, you know what I mean? I got a saying. We’ve been saying ‘respect your elders’ for years. And my saying is ‘respect your young people.’ I say [that] because they’re the ones that’s going to be running stuff in the next 10, 20 years.”
“I talked about when The Young Bucks was in Impact Wrestling, I was like, ‘Man, who are these guys? What they heck are they doing?’ Making muscles and they didn’t have any muscles but they’d still be flexing and whatnot. You remember what I always say: if you believe it, they’ll believe it. And now, 2022, the Young Bucks are some of the hottest guys out there. You gotta be able to understand this generation if you want to be a part of it. It’s different. And they ain’t following the rules. I think that’s got a lot to do with it, man. I get it, I understand it… I think you got to be able to be able to go with the flow and figure it out if you want to be a part of this Gen Z era. That’s all it is.”
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