CM Punk’s highly anticipated/dreaded interview with ESPN’s Marc Raimondi is out, and ahead of his return at AEW Collision, Punk addressed his heat with Hangman Page as well as their match for the AEW World Championship at AEW Double or Nothing 2023. Punk said,
“And I proceed to have what I think is a garbage match because I’m trying to protect myself on stuff instead of actually just working and trying to put on the best performance I can. I’m keeping an eye out. He chopped me in the mouth one time, and I’m just like, ‘OK, did you do that on purpose?’ You chip my tooth, and I’m like, ‘All right, should I give him a receipt?’ It changes the dynamic. It poisoned everything for me, and it made it all really, really ugly, and that was what set all of this off, and here we are over a year later and ain’t s— been done about it.”
In the interview, Punk also expressed regret at how he handled stuff at the All Out 2022 media scrum, while saying that the ‘Brawl Out’ incident was not a big deal and was blown out of proportion because of his absence from wrestling.
