{"id":36161,"date":"2022-06-04T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-steps-away-from-aew-due-to-injury-days-after-title-win\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:41:53","slug":"cm-punk-steps-away-from-aew-due-to-injury-days-after-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-steps-away-from-aew-due-to-injury-days-after-title-win\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Punk steps away from AEW due to injury days after title win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>CM Punk was forced to step aside as AEW world champion just days after winning it.<\/p>\n<p>A red-eyed and emotional Punk announced on All Elite Wrestling&#8217;s \u201cRampage\u201d on Friday night that he is injured and will have to give up the title he won at Sunday&#8217;s Double or Nothing pay-per-view.  An interim champion will be crowned at the Forbidden Door pay-per-view on June 26. A battle royal will open next week&#8217;s \u201cAEW Dynamite\u201d and the winner will face Jon Moxley in the main event to earn a spot in the match at Forbidden Door against another challenger to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bad news is I&#8217;m injured and I need surgery,\u201d Punk said.  &#8220;A couple of things are broken, the biggest one is my heart because I love performing in front of all of you and I wanted to go on one hell of a run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Punk, 43, just won the championship &#8211; his first world title since 2013 &#8211; by beating \u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page at Double or Nothing in Las Vegas.  He was set to face New Japan Pro Wrestling star Hiroshi Tanahashi for the AEW championship at the companies&#8217; first joint pay-per-view, \u201cForbidden Door\u201d, at the United Center in his hometown of Chicago.  Punk however sees the injury as a setback that he will return from.  Punk said he was willing to relinquish the title, but AEW president Tony Khan did not want him to.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;I told you I was going to go until the wheels fall off.  The wheels are still there they haven&#8217;t fallen off, \u201dPunk said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s just that one of them happened to be broken.  I&#8217;ve felt better than I did today.  But I am here to tell you I&#8217;ve also felt a hell of a lot worse.  This is a bump in the road.  It hurts.  It hurt like hell.  I want to wrestle for you right now. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>In his first appearance as champion earlier this week on Dynamite, Punk could be seen limping after his tag team match with FTR against Max Caster and the Gunn Club and later when he came out to confront MJF in fans&#8217; video after the cameras stopped rolling.  Fightful reported Punk was dealing with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>CM Punk won the AEW world championship on Sunday at Double of Nothing. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AEW <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Punk returned to professional wrestling after seven years away when he made his AEW debut last August.  This was supposed to be his third career di lui \u201cSummer of Punk\u201d with him as champion to potentially give AEW the best chance to raise its profile and reach a new audience on the back of Punk&#8217;s stardom.  That won&#8217;t happen now. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing I ever wanted to feel was like I was letting any of you down,\u201d Punk said.  \u201cThe last thing I ever wanted to do was leave you feeling disappointed, so I hope thus far I haven&#8217;t made you feel that way.  I have loved every single second I have been in this ring.  Every single time I&#8217;ve been in this ring in front of all of you is a gift I never thought I&#8217;d get to experience again. &#8221;       <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>He tweeted at 8:15 pm on Friday that he would be on Rampage with an important announcement in regards to the AEW world championship and his and asking people to tune in, which immediate sparked injury concerns that proved to be true.  Punk said he doesn&#8217;t want to hold AEW up with the long list of people it has who can be champion He mentioned Bryan Danielson and Moxley.  Punk vows to be back to reclaim his spot at the top again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe get back is going to be bigger than the set back,\u201d Punk said.  &#8220;I&#8217;m champion for a reason and I&#8217;m going to show you exactly why.  I will come back bigger, faster, stronger and hungrier than ever before and god dammit I&#8217;ve prove why I&#8217;m the best in the word! &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CM Punk was forced to step aside as AEW world champion just days after winning it. A red-eyed and emotional Punk announced on All Elite Wrestling&#8217;s \u201cRampage\u201d on Friday night that he is injured and will have to give up the title he won at Sunday&#8217;s Double or Nothing pay-per-view. An interim champion will be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-steps-away-from-aew-due-to-injury-days-after-title-win\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CM Punk steps away from AEW due to injury days after title win<\/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-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":[10],"tags":[5180,8491,295,5115],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/newspress-collage-22532610-1654318264886.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1654304308&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}