He just posted that then for clout, that is kind of his M.O.

Again, while you may possibly be spot on, (still missing context. What was going on in/around the time this was posted?) it's another one of those things attributed solely to Punk for some weird reason. He isn't the first, he isn't the last, and the folks he is in opposition to are the kings of it, but none of that gets mentioned. Especially not by his detractors.

Ahh possibly. Be interesting if they try to keep the Collision feel without having to load everyone on the show to build toward a PPV. Not interesting enough for me to watch, but interesting enough to read about.

That’s not a knock on Punk so much as it’s an indictment of the sad state AEW is in. :lol:

There may be a car wreck element. The shows are not likely to hold since Punk was the driving force behind their logic.

Let's look at the college football games that are this week. So ESPN has some prime time games and ABC has their main telecast for the week.

Marquee ESPN game: Texas versus Alabama. Two top 15 teams

Marquee Fox Game: Oregon versus Texas Tech.

Marquee ABC Game: Wisconsin versus Washington State.

Look at where the games are being played. The South, The Northwest, and some of the midwest. The West will still be at 5-7pm which means very few people will be home to watch TV. The East Coast will be devoted to watching football.

If Collison gets more than 400k this week, I will be STUNNED.

It's not like people are going to go crazy over the finals of their tournament being Roderick Strong versus potentially Samoa Joe or Penta. Not exactly going to be the casual fan that flocks to TNT to watch that.

And this week is considered to be a "dead" week in terms of matchups for college football. And again, while this might be beating a dead horse, even though this was considered a "soft" brand split, they do not have a World Championship for Collision. Punk's title (while basically his "own" title that he never lost) may not have been an official world title, it was still a major championship.

Danielson >>>>>>>>>>>>> Phyllis Brooks.

He should be long as he's not in a UFC cage.

If the number does collapse, it’s kind of fortunate for Punk. I’d expect the number to go down anyway, losing their biggest star and the closest thing they’ve got to a good booker. But he gets to exit just as shit gets way harder anyway.

Just looked up their tournament. Roderick Strong vs. Samoa Joe actually looks like it is a Dynamite match. The Collision matches are going to be the semis.

Punk has not and never will outdraw sports.

Nah, he just outdraws the other fake athletes on the wrestling show.

CM Punk outdrew AEW when he was in WWE?




Maybe he is a wrestling God

:wtf:

Just keeping the silliness going man

Also, only the following emoji's are allowed when talking about Phyllis




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Moving on

Which Phyllis WON'T be doing....

Unless you're giving us forty five, you're wasting my time...
 

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I highly doubt AEW will be moving on.

Straight out of the Hogan playbook.

I know right? You've said that for HOW many years now and for HOW many reasons?




Noid just keep noiding brother.

Huh? I meant Pubk leaving just as the ratings tank was a Hogan play.

Lol, you’ve got a few Hogans in there. Punk ain’t one of them.

I heard Punk personally ran the pyro for Collision and cooked all the catering so no more pyro and the talent will now starve.

The SHAMBLES!

This could be the start of something. Tony opens Collision letting people know he's fired Ace Steel "with cause" painting himself as the hero but being received as the villain like Vince with "Bret screwed Bret". Then he can feud with MJF.

While I wouldn't be against having an evil authority figure role, TK just doesn't seem capable of being that. He doesn't have the look or the demeanor for it.

That's why it will work! Like I imagine his heel work would him being whiny, stressed and constantly complaining that it isn't fair and people should like him!

Sounds like FPJ is a bucks mark to me

Ace Steel causing too many problems sitting at home agenting good wrestling.

WITH CAUSE!

Tony Khan was afraid for his life.

“People, wrestlers, crew, staff don’t deserve to be threatened by the presence of a man who isn’t there.”

"One for the Jewish cartoon please..."
 

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Here's to you Jeff...

I believe in a lot of what FJP says. He speaks from what he knows and tends not to bullshit people.

I believe him when he says that other people would want to start something wrestling related but want to make sure that CM Punk has nothing to do with it. Phil has created this aura about him that he is cancerous and it is true now. It is disappointing because he does have a great mind for the business but at the same time, he cannot stay out of his own way.

I mentioned in the politics thread that scripted life tends to mirror real life. For Phil, that 100% stands true. He was the type of anti-authority figure who tried to bend the rules as much as possible when he was in WWE, dropping promos that blurred the lines between shoot and work. Now he's in a tough spot with AEW but more of being a backstage problem (although he doesn't have to worry about being that problem anymore).

What's lost in all this is what could have happened had Punk not torn his tricep and been out for 8-9 months. The suspension would have ended sooner so do we see Punk hurting AEW in March and April instead of during the summer or would he have worked past his differences right away. Even though Punk was rehabbing the injury, he should have had Punk and the Elite meet LAST YEAR and resolved this, instead of letting it fester for 9 months. All he did was put a band aid on an open wound that needed stitches to close the issue.

Weird how every problem in AEW comes back to the idiot owner who doesn't, you know, "be a boss".

In terms of scripted life mirroring real life, CM Punk would be the equivalent of a "sovereign citizen".

Punk's messiness is an art-form. Inject it into my veins.

:shifty:

drave and I currently struggling not to make jokes about Punk injecting his messiness into Dale.

It's a difficult struggle I assure you.