CM Punk wasn’t in a good mood at Sunday night’s post-AEW All Out media scrum.
During the scrum, Punk went off on Colt Cabana, Hangman Page, and EVPs The Young Bucks.
When CM Punk returned from his foot injury, he went off-script and cut a promo on Hangman Page. Additionally, there were reports that Punk didn’t want Colt Cabana in AEW, which resulted in the latter being moved to the Ring of Honor brand.
During the scrum, CM Punk commented on Scott Colton (Colt Cabana) and their issues. He said,
“If you fancy yourself a journalist, even if it’s for the silly world of professional wrestling, and you have journalist integrity, people who report things, mostly that are bullsh*t and slanderous lies against myself, if you are friends with somebody, you blew my spot, if you’re not friends with him, I apologize. You should probably disclose who you’re friends with. I haven’t had anything to do with Scott Colton in almost a decade. Probably wanted nothing to do with him even longer than that. It’s f**king unfortunate that I have to come up here and on this when I’m on my time and this is a f**king business.
“Why I’m a grown-ass adult man and I decide to be friends with somebody is nobody else’s f**king business but my friends, if I fall backwards, will catch me. Scott Colton, I felt, never would have. My problem was, I wanted to bring a guy with me to the top that didn’t want to see me at the top. You call it jealousy, you call it envy, whatever the f**k it is. My relationship with Scott Colton ended long before I paid all of his bills. I have every receipt. I have every invoice, I have every email. I have an email where he says, ‘I agree to go out separate ways, I will get my own lawyer, you do not have to pay anymore.’ That’s an email that I have. The only reason the public did not see is because, when I finally had to counter-sue him, through discovery, we discovered he shared a bank account with his mother. That’s a fact. As soon as we discovered that fact and we subpoenaed ol’ Marsha, he sent the email, ‘Oh, can we please drop all this?’ It’s 2022, I haven’t been friends with this guy since at least 2014, late 2013.”
Additionally, CM Punk went off on the Executive Vice Presidents of the company, The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) and Kenny Omega. He said,
“The fact that I have to sit up here because we have irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs and couldn’t f**king manage Target, and they spread lies and bullsh*t and put into a medium that I got somebody fired when I have f**k all to do with him. Want nothing to do with him. Do not care where he works, where he doesn’t work, where he eats, where he sleeps. The fact that I have to get up here and do this in 2022 is f**king embarrassing. If y’all at fault, f**k you. If you’re not, I apologize. What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed f**king dumb f**k like Hangman Adam Page to go out on national television and f**king go into business for himself, for what? What did I do? I didn’t do a god damn thing.”
AEW President Tony Khan tried to intervene to lower the tone, but CM Punk cut him off and said it wasn’t his place to do so. He said,
“It’s not his [Tony Khan’s] position to make it clear. There are people who call themselves EVPs that should’ve f**king known better. This sh*t is none of their business. I understand sticking up for you f**king friends, I get it. I stuck for that guy more than anybody. I paid his bills, until I didn’t, and it was my decision not to. I’m trying to run a fucking business and when somebody, who hasn’t done a damn thing in this business, jeopardizes the first million dollar house that this company has ever drawn, off of my back, and goes on national television and does that, it’s a disgrace to this industry, it’s a disgrace to this company. We’re far beyond apologies. I gave him a f**king chance. It did not get handled. You saw what I had to do, which is very regrettable, lowering myself to his f**king level. That’s where we’re at right now. I will still walk up and down this hallway and say, ‘if you have a f**king problem with me, take it up with me.’ Let’s f**king go.”
He would later go on to take another shot at Colt Cabana, saying,
“Sorry to keep bringing this up, but I had never spoken a word about it. When it came down that he was going to sue me, I asked to talk to him. He refused. I asked for mediation, it was denied. I offered him money, he said it was not enough. He went ahead with the lawsuit and sued. It’s his f**king funeral, I don’t care. He shares a bank account with his mother, which tells you all you need to know about what kind of character that is.”
And finally, he turned his attention back to the EVPs, saying,
“I’ll tell you why I’m upset about it. If you’re an EVP, you don’t try to middle your top babyface. Try to get your niche audience that is on the internet to try and hate him for some made-up, bullsh*t rumor. Really pisses me off. Stepping on your own d*ck, trying to f**king make money, sell tickets, fill arenas. These stupid guys think they’re in Reseda.”
“Our locker room, for all the wisdom and brilliance it has, isn’t worth sh*t when you have an empty-headed idiot, who has never done anything in the business do public interviews and say, ‘I don’t really take advice.’ Who the f**k do you think you are? That’s stupid. I’m on a team with Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and I don’t need to work on my swing. I’m not gonna listen to these guys. F**king go f**k yourself. I dare you to f**king say that to Terry Funk’s face. ‘I don’t need to listen to you Mr. Funk, I know what I’m doing.’ F**king grow up.”
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