AEW handed Punk everything on a silver platter in the last run. Basically his own show where from all indications he had the authority to ban people from and mold to his own creative vision. And he couldn’t make it 3 months without throwing it away.
Whether or not you think Jack Perry deliberately goaded him on by making a comment during a pre-show match, Punk could’ve just shut the fuck up and ignored what was, at worst, petty bullshit and continued coasting his way to a very well-paid retirement run.
You don’t have to like AEW or Tony Khan but anyone taking the sympathy route for Punk to try to justify the hatred more is hilarious. Punk deserves no sympathy here. This was complete and total self-immolation.
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