AEW Reportedly BUYING OUT CM Punk’s Contract, Concerns Over Jumping Back To WWE | WRESTLING NEWS
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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AEW are reportedly buying CM Punk out of his AEW contract but there are concerns over CM Punk jumping back to WWE. There are more big changes coming to WWE PPV plans. Plus a major AEW star is expected to have one final WWE run.
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| 0:00.0 | AEW buying CM Punk out of his contracts. We'll talk about it, plus major changes to |
| 0:06.4 | W. W.'s pay-per-views next year and an AEW star could be back in WWE in the next few years for the second time today for |
| 0:16.6 | Friday October the 21st, 2022 this is your cultaholic wrestling news. Lots of news breaking for a Friday, |
| 0:25.0 | so it seemed right to bring you a second news podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | Plenty more headlines in the one that we dropped a few hours ago. |
| 0:34.5 | You can check that out on your podcast feed right now. |
| 0:36.9 | But let's talk CM Punk. |
| 0:39.2 | The wrestling observer newsletter gives us an update |
| 0:42.4 | on the situation within AEW around punk. |
| 0:47.2 | The fallout from all out continues just a few days, about a day I would say, after the release of Ace Steel. |
| 0:57.0 | According to Dave Meltzer and the Wrestling Observer newsletter, |
| 1:00.0 | AEW is in talks with CM Punk about buying out the remaining years of his |
| 1:07.4 | AEW contract. A strong indicator that CM Punk is not factored into plans to return to the |
| 1:15.3 | promotion any time soon. Meltser in the observer newsletter says the holdup right |
| 1:21.5 | now is said to be the non-compete period. |
| 1:24.6 | Obviously if the non-compete is an issue it's about interest in going to |
| 1:29.4 | W. W. W. E. Triple H's whole game plan right now is about surprise debuts and punk would be the biggest possible for him to bring in for an impact. |
| 1:41.0 | There is the flip side of course and that there's no lock that |
| 1:44.4 | W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. turned up in aeew and we heard from numerous |
| 1:56.4 | sources that Fox really wanted W. W. W. to put a bid in for CM punk. It was Fox |
| 2:01.7 | themselves that brought CM Punk in to do |
| 2:04.4 | WWE backstage. |
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