Had he stayed, Punk would have driven out so much talent and Tony Khan would never be trusted as someone who can put his personal feelings for the benefit of his employees.

I didn’t have any preexisting narrative of him in my head. I didn’t know the guy. I quit watching wrestling after the Chris Benoit shit, and didn’t start watching again until well after CM Punk was gone. I had no opinion of the guy until he started wrestling in AEW. I learned about the pipebomb, thought it was awesome. Watched some of his higher rated matches, and while his style wasn’t my favorite, he had really good chemistry with his opponents. So I was interested in seeing him join. I didn’t care for the storylines he was in but whatever the matches were good. Then the dumb shit started and my opinion of him dropped with each thing he said, until All Out when I really didn’t like him. When he came back I lost interest in the show. And now shits just staying the same apparently. So my desire to watch is pretty low.

I haven’t seen any reports suggesting that Perry started the physical part of the incident. It doesn’t matter if someone starts arguing with you and asking if you have a problem with them. That doesn’t warrant violence and it’s not excusable just because Punk was sad about what Perry said.

Lol who said I have a strict criteria for anything? I make decisions based on how I feel about the information I learn about something. There are some companies I don’t watch for other reasons.

But still, to your point of comparing other promotions, what active wrestlers in any other company is being violent with coworkers for something as simple as their feelings are getting hurt while also spreading crummy opinions on other wrestlers that fans love for really good reasons. Most of these wrestlers he’s not in storyline with, so there’s no reason to talk shit, it’s just personal stuff that he can’t be professional about.

What narrative do you think was already in my head? That I didn’t like him already and the reports of these things happening just reinforce that? That’s not the case. The things that have happened since he’s been in AEW is why I feel the way that I do. And are you also pretending that these things didn’t happen just because they were first reported by wrestling journalists?

I didn’t have any preexisting narrative of him in my head. I didn’t know the guy. I quit watching wrestling after the Chris Benoit shit, and didn’t start watching again until well after CM Punk was gone. I had no opinion of the guy until he started wrestling in AEW. I learned about the pipebomb, thought it was awesome. Watched some of his higher rated matches, and while his style wasn’t my favorite, he had really good chemistry with his opponents. So I was interested in seeing him join. I didn’t care for the storylines he was in but whatever the matches were good. Then the dumb shit started and my opinion of him dropped with each thing he said, until All Out when I really didn’t like him. When he came back I lost interest in the show. And now shits just staying the same apparently. So my desire to watch is pretty low.

No reason to be upset that we don’t have the same opinion. Not everyone has to like and dislike the same things.

Yeah, same. And it’s so fucking dumb that anyone would care that Perry started it. He started an argument. An argument is not an invitation to start a fight. If you’re so much of a baby that you can’t stop yourself from hitting people who say things that hurt your feelings, you don’t need to be calling yourself a locker room leader or working in a job that requires so much trust in other people helping keep you safe

Why do you say that? Do you think it’s all a work? If so, it’s some awful fucking WCW 2000 shit and I don’t want to watch it. Or do you think it’s all lies but not a work? If so, cool move by the owner to not comment on it and look like a chump who can’t manage his company. And if that’s the case, I don’t want to watch it. And if it’s real and he’s being that much of a crybaby and attempted bully, which is definitely in line with how he’s been his whole career, then I don’t want to watch.

I really wish I could not let it hurt my enjoyment of the product but I just have no desire to watch when that guy is such a big part of the show. I was actually looking at the card for All In to see what matches were happening because I wanted to try to get back into it. But then I saw that CM Punk had a match and also there was some storyline of him pretending to be champion. So that tells me that they were eventually going to have him in the title picture again. So I lost interest. Why get invested in a story if you know they are going to make it worse later? It may indeed be a shoot turned into a work, but I don’t have any desire to see CM Punk be beat in a match. I just don’t want to see him at all.

It’s okay buddy.

I haven’t watched any AEW since he came back. I went to a dynamite live right before he came back and was totally pumped but like, I just lost all interest with him being involved again. I don’t find him entertaining.

I’m gonna watch All In so maybe that’ll get me back into it. Idk. I’ve been following AEW since it’s inception so it kinda sucks to just not be into it anymore