CM Punk shares more about Brawl Out.
AEW All Out 2022 seemingly changed the course of All Elite Wrestling as CM Punk dethroned Jon Moxley in the main event to regain the AEW World Championship. In the process, Punk tore his triceps and proceeded to appear on the post-show media scrum.
While sitting next to AEW President Tony Khan, Punk cut an eye-raising promo on his coworkers in AEW. This ultimately preceded a reported backstage incident involving Ace Steel, The Young Bucks, and Kenny Omega, among others, which resulted in numerous suspensions.
Punk recently appeared on MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani where he opened up about his side of the story for the first time as it relates to the events of the infamous media scrum. (H/t to Fightful for the transcription)
“Getting out there and seeing reporters that report shit about you like it’s fact without ever checking with you to see if stuff happened, who are openly friends with other wrestlers, it’s just fucking high school,” Punk said. “It’s high school mean girls drama bullshit. I get there and I see these goofs and I just lose my temper. Top three CM Punk promo though.”
When asked about Khan sitting by and not interjecting, Punk responded, “It’s nothing he never heard before.”
‘Nobody Spoke To Me For Six Months’
Helwani tried to press about what happened after his scrum appearance, and Punk noted that he can’t really talk about it.
“I don’t think I can,” Punk said. “I didn’t have to sign an NDA for anything I did wrong. It means I have nothing to hide. There is an NDA in place for that one. I wish I never did the scrum. Scrums are stupid anyway. Those things are really cringe.”
Punk added, “You would have to ask the person [Tony Khan] that wanted me to sign a NDA? Yeah. I didn’t want anybody to sign a NDA to hide some bullshit that I did.”
Helwani continued to ask if Punk thought he was close to being let go following the incident that was dubbed “Brawl Out.” That is when Punk stated no one in AEW spoke to him for six months and he had to figure out his surgery plans independently.
“Nobody in the company spoke to me for six months,” Punk said. “Paid for surgery, booked my surgery, thankfully Doc Sampson, who I knew from WWE and have a good rapport with, he helped me with that, but I was on my own with all that stuff. If you think I deserve to be fired or treated like that. That’s your opinion. The recovery for this surgery [in WWE] and that one is night and day.
“It’s almost a comparison between the two places where there is structure and protocols and professional people in charge of things and I’m not having to research and find a PT spot. I had no help. Nothing. That’s insane to me. Is that how they treat Jaguars players? I don’t know. I don’t think anybody should be treated like that if you’re a pro athlete. I had no help. Nobody would speak to me.”
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