Jeff Jarrett speaks highly of Tony Khan for the way he handled CM Punk‘s departure from AEW.
On September 2, AEW announced that Punk’s contract had been terminated after he was involved in an incident backstage at AEW All In. Tony Khan then addressed the move on Saturday’s episode of AEW Collision.
Speaking on his My World podcast, Jarrett shared his thoughts on the situation.
“The reality of the situation, in my humble opinion, you’re asking me to make comments on a situation that, I really believe this, there’s only two people in the world that have full contex,” Jeff Jarrett said. “I think some people will say, ‘I knew this, or I knew that.’ Well, you may, but you don’t know what Tony knows, and you don’t know what Phil knows. You just don’t.
“Nobody does but them two. What would Jerry do? I would have to have more [information] to comment specifically on this. But in general purposes, the decision Tony made, big cajónes, hit it straight on.”
Jeff Jarrett Praises Tony Khan For Getting Out In Front Of The Situation
Jarrett continued by noting that his father, legendary promoter Jerry Jarrett, would have handled the situation similarly by getting in front of it and being honest with the fans. He then detailed the way AEW and Tony Khan got out in front of the situation.
“There were three things done,” Jeff Jarrett said. “There was the social media audiences, the discussion that was had in the United Center, there was obviously the television audience, and then there was the live audience. All of them were addressed head on. When I read that release, boy, it was as clear as a legal situation could possibly be. I do believe my old man would have completely been aligned with it, just because getting in front of it. That is sometimes such a hard pill to swallow.
“The easy one would have been, ‘Let’s wait til Monday.’ There’s multiple things you could have done, a reconciliation, a cooling-off period. We could talk about it until the cows come home, and it has been talked about over and over, it feels like, for months and months. But getting in front of things with a clear-cut decision made a absolutely was the right thing to do. It best for business. Your consumers, with the decision being made, we’re informed. This absolutely is a decision that, although you can’t define how many, but there’s a segment that goes, ‘Okay, I’m a Punk fan.’ But he made the decision, and it’s over. So he got in front of it. I just don’t think there’s downsides to that.”
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