{"id":104985,"date":"2022-10-22T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/backstage-news-on-a-potential-wwe-return-for-cm-punk-wrestling-news\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:35:08","slug":"backstage-news-on-a-potential-wwe-return-for-cm-punk-wrestling-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/backstage-news-on-a-potential-wwe-return-for-cm-punk-wrestling-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage news on a potential WWE return for CM Punk &#8211; Wrestling News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s looking more likely that CM Punk is on his way out of AEW after what happened at AEW All Out, where he ripped Colt Cabana, Hangman Adam Page, and the AEW EVPs at the media scrum.  He was later involved in a backstage fight with Kenny Omega, Ace Steel, and The Young Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, AEW is in talks with Punk about the future, but right now, it looks doubtful he will be back in the promotion.  AEW is also in talks with Punk about buying out his contract, and the only hang-up in making this happen is the non-compete period of the deal. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\"\/>\n<p>The belief is that since AEW wants a non-compete clause in the buy-out, they believe WWE could be interested in bringing Punk back, as no other promotion would be able to afford what Punk was making in AEW. <\/p>\n<p>Fightful Select reported most AEW wrestlers felt following the brawl that &#8220;realistically he can&#8217;t expect to be back&#8221; and aren&#8217;t interested in working in a locker room that he&#8217;s involved in again, unless huge amends are made for how the night made the promotion look in general. <\/p>\n<section class=\"m-in-content-recommendation m-detail--in-content-recommendation h-isolated-styles mm-component-stack--is-body-item\" style=\"--title_size_a_font_size:18;--title_size_b_font_size:18;--title_size_c_font_size:18;\">\n<p><span>Scroll to Continue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Regarding WWE, company sources stated that they didn&#8217;t think Vince McMahon would have brought CM Punk back, especially after the brawl.  FOX was the one who pushed for WWE to talk with Punk before he signed with AEW, as he previously worked on WWE Backstage on FS1. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>The report stated, \u201cthe line of thinking presented to us under the Triple H regime is that the right situation, right money and right creative can leave the door open for &#8220;anything within reason.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>One person said, &#8220;Triple H wants to be a success and make compelling programming more than anything. CM Punk back in WWE is compelling programming, but I can&#8217;t see it being a full-time deal like what he has in AEW, because of exactly what happened in AEW. That&#8217;s even if he as interest. If he gets a buyout he may not need to work again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking more likely that CM Punk is on his way out of AEW after what happened at AEW All Out, where he ripped Colt Cabana, Hangman Adam Page, and the AEW EVPs at the media scrum. He was later involved in a backstage fight with Kenny Omega, Ace Steel, and The Young Bucks. As &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/backstage-news-on-a-potential-wwe-return-for-cm-punk-wrestling-news\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backstage news on a potential WWE return for CM Punk &#8211; Wrestling News<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[5545,1098,2401],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103826,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-aew-in-talks-about-contract-buyout-won-f4w\/","url_meta":{"origin":104985,"position":0},"title":"CM Punk, AEW in talks about contract buyout &#8211; WON\/F4W","date":"October 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"AEWAEW and CM Punk are in talks to buyout the remaining years on his contract, according to Dave Meltzer in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter.The news comes less than two months after Punk, Ace Steel, the Young Bucks, and Kenny Omega were involved in a backstage fight following Punk's comments\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"CM Punk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.f4wonline.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_700\/MTkxNTY3NzIyNDY1NzMyMDgy\/b81b892d-eed5-4715-92ab-7bd117ed0c65.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":105836,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/top-aew-star-seemingly-agrees-with-fan-who-says-cm-punk-became-toxic-to-aew-wrestling-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":104985,"position":1},"title":"Top AEW star seemingly agrees with fan who says CM Punk became toxic to AEW &#8211; Wrestling News","date":"October 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"AEW star Chris Jericho \"liked\" a tweet from someone on Twitter who gave the opinion that CM Punk ostracized himself and became so toxic to AEW that it wasn't worth having him around. 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