{"id":67091,"date":"2022-09-05T23:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-rips-colt-cabana-aew-evps-in-press-conference-rant\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T23:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T23:01:01","slug":"cm-punk-rips-colt-cabana-aew-evps-in-press-conference-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-rips-colt-cabana-aew-evps-in-press-conference-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Punk rips Colt Cabana, AEW EVPs in press conference rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>CM Punk dropped a different type of \u201cpipe bomb\u201d following his huge victory at All Out.<\/p>\n<p>The now two-time All Elite Wrestling champion unloaded on Colt Cabana, whose real name is Scott Colton, \u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page and the AEW executive vice presidents in a fiery rant to open the media scrum after the pay-per-view at the NOW Arena in Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Punk, whose real name is Phil Brooks, appeared genuinely angry about reports he pushed for the company to part ways with Cabana.  Punk and his former friend had a falling out when they were both sued for defamation by ex-WWE doctor Chris Ammen for comments Punk made on Cabana&#8217;s \u201cThe Art of Wrestling Podcast\u201d in 2014. Punk, who won the case against Ammen in 2018, and Cabana eventually sued each other over legal fees stemming from that case and the dispute was eventually settled in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>AEW President Tony Khan told Forbes last week that Cabana was brought back as part of the roster for Ring of Honor, which Khan bought in March and where Cabana has a long history.  He also said Punk had \u201cnothing to do with any of the contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Punk still felt it necessary to address his relationship \u2014 or lack thereof \u2014 with Cabana on Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>CM Punk lashed out at several fellow wrestlers and AEW EVPs after &#8216;All Out.&#8217;<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AEW<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI haven&#8217;t had anything to do with Scott Colton for almost a decade.  Probably wanted nothing to do with him even longer than that,\u201d Punk said.  \u201cIt&#8217;s f\u2013king unfortunate that I have to come up here and speak on this when I&#8217;m on my time and this is af\u2013king business.  Why I&#8217;m a grown-ass adult man and I decide not to be friends with somebody is nobody else&#8217;s f\u2013king business.  But my friends, if I fall backwards, will catch me.  Scott Colton, I felt, never would have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy problem was I wanted to bring a guy with me to the top that did not want to see me at the top, OK?  You can call it jealousy, you can call it envy, whatever the f\u2013k it is.  My relationship with Scott Colton ended long before I paid all of his bills.  I have every receipt.  I have every invoice.  I have every email.  I have [an] email where he says &#8216;I agree to go our separate ways, I will get my own lawyer and you do not have to share anymore.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s an email that I have and the only reason the public did not see is because when I finally had to countersue him, through discovery we discovered he shared a bank account with his mother.  That&#8217;s a fact.  As soon as we discovered that fact and we subpoenaed old Marsha, he sent the email &#8216;oh, can we please drop all this?&#8217;  Now, it&#8217;s 2022. I haven&#8217;t been friends with this guy since at least 2014, late-2013.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/young-buck-kenny-omega-cm-punk-rant.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks\" class=\"wp-image-23739452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/young-buck-kenny-omega-cm-punk-rant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/young-buck-kenny-omega-cm-punk-rant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/young-buck-kenny-omega-cm-punk-rant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AEW<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Punk then turned his ire to the company&#8217;s EVP, the Young Bucks&#8217; Matt and Nick Jackson, and Kenny Omega.  It&#8217;s unclear if Punk was upset about them leaking the story or failing to say it was untrue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I have to sit up here because we have irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs and couldn&#8217;t f\u2013king manage a Target and they spread lies and bulls\u2013t and put into the media that I got somebody fired when I have f\u2013k all to do with him, want nothing to do with him, do not care where he works, where he doesn&#8217;t work, where he eats, where he sleeps\u2026 the fact that I have to get up and do this in 2022 is f\u2013king embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fightful Select reported early Monday morning that the Bucks and Omega \u2013 who were originally scheduled to appear at the press conference after being crowned the first AEW trio champions \u2014 were \u201cextremely pissed off\u201d by Punk&#8217;s comments.  Reports from the Wrestling Observer and DAZN followed, saying Punk and the Bucks got into a physical altercation backstage over his comments, with the latter stating<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMuehlhausenJr\/status\/1566823099185733635\" target=\"_blank\"> Punk threw punches at one member of the tag team <\/a>before it was broken up.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Warning: The video below contains adult langauage<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CM PUNK SHOOTS ON COLT CABANA, ADAM PAGE, AEW EVPS &amp; MORE--- AEW ALL OUT 2022 MEDIA SCRUM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBAvjOYD6hs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not [Khan\u2019s] position to make it very f\u2013king clear,\u201d Punk said.  \u201cThere&#8217;s people who call themselves EVPs that should have f\u2013king known better.  This s\u2013t was none of their business.  I understand sticking up for your f\u2013king friends, I f\u2013king get it, I stuck up for that guy [Cabana] more than anybody.  ARROW?  I paid his bills until I didn&#8217;t and it was my decision not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Punk eventually turned to Hangman, the former AEW world champion who the former WWE star beat for the world title at Double or Nothing.  Upon Punk&#8217;s returned from surgery three weeks ago, he appeared to go off script on Page by challenging him to a match he wasn&#8217;t able or prepared to accept and calling it \u201ccoward s\u2013t.\u201c There were reports Punk was upset with some of the comments Page made during their promo leading up to their Double or Nothing match.  Punk seemed to confirm that to be true and show him calling out Page as a way to prove a point to the young star about how to do proper business in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed f\u2013king dumbf\u2013k like &#8216;Hangman&#8217; Adam Page to go out on national television and f\u2013king go into business for himself?  For what?  What did I ever do?  \u2026 didn&#8217;t do a goddamn thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t done.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m trying to run af\u2013king business,\u201d Punk continued.  \u201cAnd when somebody who hasn&#8217;t done a damn thing in this business jeopardizes the first million dollar house that this company has ever drawn off of my back and goes on national television and does that, it&#8217;s a disgrace to this industry, it&#8217;s a disgrace to this company\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least at the moment, it doesn&#8217;t feel like the relationship between Punk and Hangman can be mended and won&#8217;t need to be.  Punk is getting set to reignite his story with the returning MJF and Page is entangled in a storyline around Omega, the Bucks, the Dark Order and the trio&#8217;s championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re far beyond apologies,\u201d Punk said.  \u201cI gave him af\u2013king chance, it did not get handled, and you saw what I had to do, which is very regrettable, lowering myself to his f\u2013king level.  But that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at right now.  And I will still walk up and down this hallway and say &#8216;if you have af\u2013king problem with me, take it up with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While everything in pro wrestling comes with the question of is this real or part of the storyline, this was a very unfiltered and emotional Punk.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CM Punk dropped a different type of \u201cpipe bomb\u201d following his huge victory at All Out. The now two-time All Elite Wrestling champion unloaded on Colt Cabana, whose real name is Scott Colton, \u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page and the AEW executive vice presidents in a fiery rant to open the media scrum after the pay-per-view at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punk-rips-colt-cabana-aew-evps-in-press-conference-rant\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CM Punk rips Colt Cabana, AEW EVPs in press conference rant<\/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":[5544,5545,307,5543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69404,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cm-punks-aew-championship-vacated-after-real-life-backstage-fight\/","url_meta":{"origin":67091,"position":0},"title":"CM Punk&#8217;s AEW Championship Vacated After Real-Life Backstage Fight","date":"September 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CM Punk is no longer the AEW Champion. 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