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Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave Legreca, our very special episode of the Masters class, which drops each and every Sunday.

We're here with our Masters of the Ring, Mark Henry, Bullie Ray, and Tommy Dreamer.

And guys, we have a very, very controversial, interesting topic for the busted open nation today.

And that is a name that, my goodness, even though he didn't wrestle for years, his name would be brought up.

And even though he has wrestled and is now on the shelf with an injury, his name keeps getting brought up.

And that is CM Punk.

So, bully, first, I want to start with you. No, I'm going last. No, no, no. Wait. Hold on.

Because there's a, there's a couple of different layers to this conversation when it comes to

CM Punk. Because there is a question that I'm going to ask all of you and the nation. And that is,

should AEW have CM Punk come back?

But, Bully, my first question, oh, and I'm going to go around the room, is what do you first think of when you hear the name CM Punk?

The first word that pops into my head?

Yes. Controversial. Okay. Mark. the first word that pops into my head yes controversial okay mark rebel rebel all right and Tommy pipe bomb okay now obviously a lot of people talking about, as far as we all know and as as of this show

airing, you know, CM Punk is still signed with AEW. He's out with injury. Now, we do know all

the controversy that happened after All Out and the media scrum that took place in Chicago.

And we haven't seen CM Punk since that media scrum and since he won the world championship.

We also know that John Mock, that Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks were off a TV for a while and then came back.

And we saw them, you know, in November at the next pay-per-view that they had in New Jersey.

But Mark, we'll start with you.

C.M. Punk, obviously, somebody who you can label Star on his name.

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