CM Punk talked about why he chose AEW over WWE in a recent interview on the “Rasslin with Brandon F. Walker” podcast to promote tonight’s AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam in New York City. He said,
“I had the option and I went, ’It’s the devil you know against maybe the devil you don’t know. I know what I’m getting if I go work for Vince. I know who he is. I know what he is. It’s not going to change. I didn’t have fun, necessarily last time I was there. I had no reason to believe it was ever going to change. I looked at what I would be doing. I’ve done it all. Who did I wrestle on that side of the fence? On the AEW side of things, I’m like a kid at Christmas. A kid like Dante Martin, I watched him and the stuff he can do. I feel like I’m watching a 1995 Nitro where it has a different feel to it. It feels gritty. It feels rough around the edges, and oh, by the way, here’s two Luchadores who had a layover in Tijuana. They’re exhausted, they go out there, and they have a 6-minute match, but they put on such a show, and they pack so much in 6 minutes and have it make sense. I’m an artist and I’m looking and I go, ‘Oh, I’ve never painted with that brush before. I can’t wait to get a hold of that brush.”
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