CM Punk spoke his mind after the most recent episode of AEW Collision.
Taking place in Greensboro in North Carolina, Punk addressed the live crowd after the show went off of the air. The former AEW World Champion fired insults at one of his previous in-ring rivals, Adam Page:
“Hello, North Carolina. What is this? Huh? What is this? Look at this. ‘Carolina is Hangman Country.’ Earlier today, I went to a local supermarket and I figured out why they call him Hangman is because the pegs in the Toy aisle are full of Hangman action figures. ‘Cause nobody wants to buy ’em. He’s a peg warmer, unlike me who moves merchandise and pops ratings and sells toys.
“We got everybody in AEW saying, ‘I’m the heart, I am the soul. I am the spirit.’ Well, that’s objective. What is a fact is the people who say that certainly aren’t the chin of AEW because the lights go out faster than what? GTS, go to sleep. I don’t know what I’m trying to do. I got rocked, too. I told the House, House of Black no chops, and they chopped me, so I’m very mad.”
Prior to the shoot promo taking place, more information has come to light regarding backstage controversies. F4WOnline reported that Page was due to attend the show to film some pre-tape material to be used at a later date. However, when word got around that Page was in the area, he was told to not come to the building and the video would be filmed elsewhere.
Fightful Select would add to this story, mentioning that Ryan Nemeth was told to not come to the building for the August 12th episode of Collision despite being previously told to travel to Greensboro.
An update has been provided on the controversies surrounding this by Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. More names have been told in the past to go home after travelling to a Collision taping, including Matt Hardy and Christopher Daniels, with Daniels having am office position on top of being an in-ring performer.
Matt Hardy was booked on a Saturday, went there and then was told not to go to the building after he got there. Christopher Daniels, who had been working with Matt Sydal’s tag team in Ring Of Honor, for whatever reason same thing happened with him, he’s not supposed to go on Saturday and he’s freaking head of talent relations. There may be others but those are the ones I know of.
H/t to Inside The Ropes for the use of transcriptions.
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