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On Dynamite last night they made a few references that could maybe be construed as Punk references and it's now got a segment of the fanbase speculating that he's gonna be revealed as The Devil and that maybe the firing was all a work. And I don't get that at all. It's nearly impossible to fathom a work of that magnitude actually being pulled off.
One thing about wrestlers is that they're notoriously bad at keeping secrets. That's what made even Jim Cornette applaud AEW with the Brodie Lee stuff because it was completely unheard of for an entire locker room to actually keep a secret like that. But the AEW locker room back then was half the size it is now, there was very much the "big happy family" vibe at the time and most of all, it was a very real-life situation involving the tragic illness of a beloved colleague.
Can't imagine 200+ wrestlers + refs/agents/production + office staff all being in lockstep with a worked angle and corroborating the same story when asked by dirt sheets. I also can't really buy the idea that only those involved or some of the big names know it's a work and everyone else is in the dark, if that were the case I'd expect it to actually not be great for morale because, well, generally people don't like being lied to by their employers.
Oh and WBD would've needed some level of involvement too. Remember that SRS and Alvarez reached out to people there directly to gauge the reaction on Punk's firing. Can't really imagine a scenario where they would've been happy with a top star a new show is built around being taken offscreen 2 months in, let alone right as they were about to lose viewership to the college football season.
So even if somehow it was Punk as The Devil I'd think it would've been a fairly recent return agreement. Even that would be tough to keep under wraps with how Online the guy is and how many other people would've presumably needed to greenlight it and keep it in the dark. There's just no way in hell it wouldn't have leaked from somewhere.
More likely to me is that they've seen that WWE are continually dropping vague little Punk references themselves even while office staff there also deny he's coming in. It's obvious there's still a lot of people who think he's gonna be at Survivor Series and I'm sure there are people in AEW who feel the same way. If these even were Punk references last night they're probably just doing it because of all the ongoing speculation about where he's gonna end up.
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