Why WWE Panicked Over CM Punk's AEW Debut
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🗓️ 29 August 2021
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How Vince McMahon reacted to CM Punk walking out in an AEW arena.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what else feels like he's been way too long since we have a surprise return in wrestling |
| 0:13.0 | I mean here I am and it's been over 7 days I mean what a pile of crap and of course joking |
| 0:19.8 | and let's not pretend otherwise before the end of the year we're probably going to get |
| 0:22.2 | down your brine, probably going to get bray white, probably get balmy Murphy, we're probably |
| 0:25.6 | going to get ruby right, it's frankly absolutely ridiculous. Anywho, there is one last piece |
| 0:31.0 | of the puzzle we do need to discuss because it's just so damn interesting when it comes |
| 0:35.2 | to the return of CM Punk and that maybe just maybe WWE got into a little bit of a panic |
| 0:42.1 | when it was going down. Why? Here's why. |
| 0:46.2 | So what is the deal? Simple. While Becky Lynch was always planned to come back at Summerslam |
| 0:56.8 | that had been in the books for a while, not the fact he was going to walk to the ring |
| 1:00.4 | and beat Bianca Belar in 25 seconds, somebody came up with that on the day or so it is said |
| 1:05.4 | when it comes to Brock Lesnar or Brockus Lesnar, it is very different because this just |
| 1:10.5 | stinks of last minute or so says the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Moves Leder. |
| 1:15.6 | Because in this Uncle Dave Meltzer tells us that people close to the situation had essentially |
| 1:19.4 | said these words and that there are a number of reasons for it and we're going to go through |
| 1:23.5 | all of these reasons but the main one of course is CM Punk. |
| 1:27.5 | Because if you dig through all of this information, there are also some hints that Fox who of course |
| 1:31.6 | airs SmackDown were a little bit upset that WWE wasn't making a bigger play to try and |
| 1:37.3 | get CM Punk back with them and of course we know that CM Punk and Fox have a good relationship |
| 1:41.6 | because they work together on WWE backstage and given that they're a massive business partner |
| 1:46.4 | of world-rasting entertainment they're probably like hey this guy got loads of buzz before |
| 1:51.3 | he's going to get loads of buzz again, what the hell are you doing and why are you holding |
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