[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Frank Drebin They had a deal in place for a while but they were never going to debut Punk during the pandemic in an empty Daily's Place. No pandemic and Punk was probably there a year or more sooner than he was.

They were also quite rude to Punk when they initially tried to recruit him. Punk’s no doubt got his side of the story.

Originally Posted by Splaya In relation to Punk's debut, when was the first time AEW had an arena event. Feel like it had to be well before that. Thinking back on it, Punk also was the focal attraction of two shows that AEW DEBUTED. That's gotta eat at the Elite too now that I think about it.

There’s going to be jealousy involved in their bitterness, whether they admit it or not. I can see a bunch of people who consider themselves “artists” presenting themselves as people that can accept that jealousy and pretend that it’s not the factor others purport it to be. It’s not that Punk is a bigger star or better than them — they just wanted to do it their way.

Doesn’t make it true, necessarily.

Originally Posted by XL What new data?

Just speaking generally.

Originally Posted by Ol Dirty Dastard It's hard when you cultivate a work culture that you're proud of (our outside perspectives about that culture aside), and someone comes in and sort of takes over. A new sheriff in town when maybe--to you--that new sheriff didn't seem necessary. Especially when you're used to more autonomy and said new sheriff disrupts that. I don't like the Bucks and more ascribe to Punk's style of storytelling but I get the frustration. We've all had stuff like that happen at work. Too bad they're a couple of jackoffs and I wish them misery.

This.