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Originally Posted by Sepholio
And you think some other, and in the case of CBS, much more serious/professional management team is going to want to work with a guy who will publicly snap on them at a press conference over rumors? LOL sure thing buddy. He went off on his bosses in front of everyone because Dave Meltzer said some shit on the internet and he assumes his bosses are the ones who told Dave, when in reality, its equally as likely that Dave just made it the fuck up for clicks lmao. Furthermore, if you can't deal with internet rumors as a famous person in this day and age then you pretty much just need to go away because they aren't gonna stop.
Imagine how easy it is to cause a situation in AEW if they keep him around; just go off spreading insane rumors about Punk on the internet until he loses his shit again. This is exactly what people are gonna do lol.
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Punk’s mad at how unprofessionally AEW is run. He used a platform they provided him to tell the truth. I can understand why AEW wouldn’t be happy about it, but I don’t think it has any bearing on how well Punk can do his job.
He didn’t get mad at internet rumors. He got mad at people in positions of power being allowed to constantly go around and fuck around with talent/run talent off. He’s been dealing with it since 2019. He’s not coming at it from the same perspective as us on the internet — he knows a lot of the machinations going on back there and how hard it is to deal with these twats.
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Originally Posted by Ol Dirty Dastard
it could also serve the Elite to feed Dave half truths.
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Absolutely. I’ve noticed they don’t always tell Dave much. He was behind the ball on the Punk and Danielson signings. But maybe they just didn’t tell The Bucks? Either way, they’ve worked out how to use Dave — and how to not use Dave — to their advantage.
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Originally Posted by Sepholio
It could, but at this point all of that is pure speculation on everyones part. We dont know if they were feeding anti-punk shit to Dave or if someone else was or if he just made it up because he knew it would cause controversy and get attention. All we know is that Punk publicly lost his shit over internet rumors, made accusations he can not back up, and embarrassed the shit out of his boss.
None of those things are going to now help him get a bigger company to back him on an insanely risky proposition of a 3rd major wrestling company in this country when the 2nd one is struggling and the first one isn't doing great either in the grand scheme of things. The way AEW has gone has made it very hard for anyone else to get a major wrestling company off the ground here any time soon. The market is already oversaturated with a product that is targeting an increasingly niche market. There isn't room for more. And honestly, there is nowhere near enough recognizable talent for it.
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The Bucks being tiny dicks is nothing new. Unless you just listen to Meltzer and assume they’re really great guys. You just had Malakai Black going “Why is my personal shit out there?” Cody and Brandi. CM Punk when he was first dealing with the promotion. Someone else (I think it was Konnan?) had their financials leaked. Lol, the findings of the investigation are not known yet. I wouldn’t say he “can’t back them up” just because he hasn’t personally shoved the evidence under your nose.
Also, take the Adam Page incident. So much about wrestling is about trust. I don’t know if Punk knew 100% what Page was originally scheduled to say, but there’s a good chance he did and was completely blind-sided by him going into business for The Elite. But even if he didn’t and just knew “Page is going to cut a promo on you,” it’s still a massive break of trust to have someone out there trying to halt your babyface momentum before a big match. That’s not “speculation.” That’s something Page actually did on live television. It may be speculation that he did it all on his lonesome, but that’s the toxic influence of The Bucks.
Anyway, ViacomCBS already have a working agreement in place with AJ Lee. I don’t know the exact status of it and if it will go anywhere, but my point wasn’t so much that ViacomCBS would take off their panties and throw them at Punk because he is Punk so much as their wrestling executive is married to a big star who could tell AEW to go fuck themselves because he wants to be on a product that delivers results. AEW has been a bad look for wrestling, but I imagine the angle would be to convince TV networks that they’re bad television aimed at the niche and that WWE numbers are possible. And if Punk can blow up AEW with legal leverage and create a scenario where talent can get out of contracts they no longer want because of the environment, you COULD have that talent roster that is currently chained up.
* CM Punk
* FTR
* Malalai Black
* The House of Black
* The Briscoes
* Will Hobbs
* Ricky Starks
* Brock Anderson
* Brian Pillman, Jr.
* Griff Garrison
* Wardlow
* Even MJF