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Last September, the still bruised body following its reconquest of the All Elite Wrestling championship (AEW), CM Punk was suspended by its boss, Tony Khan, in the wake of a behind -the -scenes incident involving executive members of the organization. Executive vice-presidents Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson, to name them.
The incident was preceded by a turbulent press briefing during which CM Punk had shot red balls on several of his work colleagues and barely covered in Tony Khan, seated by his side.
This rider outing, lined with a suspension and an injury, tins the reputation of the 44 -year -old veteran.
Phil Brooks, his real name, has been dismissed from the AEW for nine months. It was even believed that the various were irreconcilable at certain times of this controversy. The content of the remarks, the physical altercations, the way without ceremony with which it was removed from the television programming, everything pointed out towards a contract buyback a year after his noticed return in the world of sports entertainment.
But no, time is arranging things and cm punk, Saturday evening, will be back on television from the AEW for the first edition of the new weekly program live: collision. (On TSN waves in English)
In front of his supporters in Chicago, Punk promised this week that he had a lot to say when he returns and he would do all that with a “filter” microphone in our TVs.
On the sidelines of this return, He discussed with Marc Raimondi of the ESPN network To perhaps make your mouth water … or moderate our expectations.
Cm punk, nine months later
“The fight is a company,” says Brooks from the start of the game in its first interview in almost a year. “For me, it's a television show. I have been absent for you since my departure in September and there, I come back. I will resume where I left you and you have to look at Saturday night to hear what I have to say. »»
Officially, CM Punk has been absent for all this time due to a muscle tear in the arm. The long rehabilitation has slowed down all attempts to return to action.
Unofficially, this long absence is also the fruit of a long dispute. Since arriving at the AEW, CM Punk has lived on friction with other wrestlers and other members of the executive. Two visions, two ways to see things and a lot of resentment.
The incidents of September, under a seal of confidentiality imposed by the legal proceedings which then resulted, are the result of several months of boiling and of internal conflicts.
To promote a new program from which he will be the main headliner, Punk underlines in his interview with ESPN that he is not proud of the turn of events, but that he was only defending his convictions. Faced with the inaction of his bosses, he took matters into his own hands, for better and for worse.
“The first thing I said to Tony (Khan) when we finally talked,” he explains, speaking of his return, “is that I apologize for having placed you in this position. »»
It is still easy to be skeptical about the sincerity of punk. After all, there are previous ones.
We remember that he left WWE by slamming the door and burning the bridges behind him over eight years ago already. This explosive outing has also trained with her her longtime friend, Colt Cabana, with whom CM Punk has no longer had relationships since the heated legal prosecution following their words during an episode of the deceased Balado by Cabana.
His absence of nine months at the AEW seemed to draw the first lines of another tumultuous divorce.
The swell is indeed present, but the divorce will wait.
CM Punk will have his theater to make his version of sports entertainment and the wrestlers with whom he is in conflict will remain in Dynamite, far from his weekly activities on Saturday evening. History does not yet say if the AEW is pulling in the foot with this intangible border between its wrestlers.
For the moment, it is the state of things and it is a repentant punk CM, despite its barely veiled bitterness, which type on the promotional drums of the organization in the heart of a month of June particularly loaded with the launch of a new program and the presentation of an à la carte event in Toronto in association with the New Japan Pro Wrestling (Forbidden DoorJune 25).
Failing to tell us all the truth and nothing but the truth, CM Punk tells us a story a few hours before his comeback on television.
The truth, as is often the case in the world of sports entertainment, will be well hidden until it becomes useful. In particular, it can be used on television to feed a story. Otherwise, in a few years, one of the actors in this sad thumbnail will have a loose language to be talked about during a hollow moment of his career.
Who, when and how? Only the future will tell us. In the meantime, you have to believe CM Punk on word and observe the continuation of things on television as he wishes.
« When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. » – John Ford
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