CM Punk on Initial Talks with AEW & Rumors of His Upcoming AEW Debut, Training Status Update

CM Punk Comments on Talks with AEW in 2019 & Rumors of His Upcoming AEW Debut in Chicago

A recent episode of the Sunday Night’s Main Event podcast had CM Punk as the guest. Some of the topics discussed included his thoughts about his intital talks with AEW CEO Tony Khan in 2019 and the rumors of his upcoming debut at AEW’s Rampage show in Chicago next week.

On the topic of his intital talks with Tony Khan in 2019, Punk stated:

“Yeah, I talked to Tony. You know, my perspective on this and I said this to Tony, to his face, was that I am a guy who has constantly heard, ‘Hey, I’ve got a money guy. Hey, I’ve got TV’. I’ve heard that at least once or twice a year for 15, 20 years of my wrestling career. I’ve gotten bounced checks from those gentlemen.

You watch that happen especially after ECW folded, everybody was restarting ECW, everybody was going to use the ECW guys – there was a dude named John Collins who did time in prison for bounced checks. It always seems that someone is going to start up and ‘Oh, we’re going to compete with Vince’ and I always thought that came from a bad spot because if you want to start up a pro wrestling company, I think you should always just focus on yourself. So, I more or less took a wait-and-see approach and I wasn’t, nor, I am not interested in pro wrestling in that respect. We’re here, we’re talking about ‘Heels’, it could be bad luck that this next role is set in the world of professional wrestling, but you know, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.”

On the topic of the recent rumors of his upcoming debut at AEW’s Rampage show in Chicago next week and his plans for August 20th, Punk stated:

“I think I might be doing a screening, this isn’t confirmed yet so I probably shouldn’t blast this out everywhere, but we’re talking about doing a screening of episode three of Heels at AMC in Chicago. That’s one of the dates that has been proposed. I hope to see everybody there.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com, Fightful.com

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CM Punk’s Training Status Update

CM Punk reportedly has been recently training for a potential in-ring return, according to Fightful Select.

It was reported that Punk had done some training for his appearance in the upcoming Heelz wrestling drama series. Besides training for his filming apperance, Punk reportedly also did some additional training on the side recently ahead of his rumored return to wrestling and debut for AEW.

It was reported that those spoken to who have been around Punk within the last six months had very positive things to say about him. One person spoken to stated that Punk looked “completely healthy” compared to the end of his tenure in WWE while another stated that he was working so well in the ring during filming “as if he had never left wrestling.” Another person spoken to speculated that Punk might have done some private training prior to his work for Heelz.