CM Punk defeated Satoshi Kojima to advance to the semifinals of the Owen Hart Cup Tournament at Sunday’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door II pay-per-view event.
On a recent episode of “Busted Open Radio,” WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray opined that AEW is giving CM Punk the “Cena treatment”, and explained how the company is banking on Punk’s divisive crowd reactions.
Punk made his return to AEW programming on the June 17th edition of AEW Collision.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Punk’s match with Kojima: “I thoroughly enjoyed Kojima versus Punk and Punk right now is getting the Cena treatment.”
On how AEW is using Punk: “Whether they love you or whether they hate you, they have some kind of an emotional response to you. Now there’s a two-fold scenario going on with Punk: People who are going to want to see Punk and cheer him; people who are gonna buy tickets to see CM Punk and boo him. What’s the common denominator? Buy tickets.”
