>But I will tell you face-to-face, man-to-man, how I feel about you: I don't hate you, I almost pity you. And I have no respect for you and what you've done since you've gotten here. You want this AEW World Championship? You wanna-- I don't think you understand what it means to be a champion after all these years, I don't think you get it, because it's not just about what happens in this ring. It's what happens when that red light turns off. What happens when you go back through the curtain, those small... Quiet... Moments when you think no one's watching... That's what makes a champion. You talk a big game about workers rights, yeah? Well you've shown the exact opposite since you've gotten here. I love this place! I care about this place! This is my home! And this Sunday at 'Double or Nothing' I will NOT-- I will NOT be defending this championship against you, no for the first time in my life I will be defending All Elite Wrestling FROM you!"
The butterfly effect of this retard and his EVP buddies crashing out over and white knighting for, and I cannot stress this enough, Colt Cabana of all fucking people and ruining an entire promotion's growth and future will always be the biggest KWAB moment in wrestling history.
>>19719511The Day AEW Died. I can't wait for the documentary.
>>19719681Colt was just an excuse, what they really couldn't stand was how much Tony loved Punk.
>>19719684This was 3 years ago and I'll be watching Dynamite tomorrow
>>19719704You and dozens of others.
>>19719713bold strat to gloat about viewers when smackdown cant even hit a million
>>19719511The feud was boring as all hell until he cut this promo, and I’m not even talking about the real life aspect of it. There was a total lack of passion missing that he delivered here
>>19719511Phil never came back from thisthe seethe just destroyed him mentally
>>19719511Why didn't they fight for real? Hangman at least said his piece to Punk's face. But they're both pussies for not fighting
Lmfao what a faggot semen slurping promotion
If anyone would ever question Punk's power, I'd simply point to this moment and to what happened to AEW after his departure.
>>19719511kek based hanger
>oh by the way, you need to check out the gay fanfiction about Swerve and me
>>19721169Did he say that?
>>19720088>Never came back from this >World champion in the biggest wrestling promotion in the world Okay.
>>19721258You're thinking of CM Corp, CM Punk is dead
>>19721258>going back to work for the company that fired you on your wedding day because you took time off to let MRSA heal when the cheesy bullshit state athletic commission doctor at the arena said 'you cannot wrestle tonight or you are shoot going to die'>wrestling in saudi arabia after calling them out for real atrocities they commit >having triple h's hand shoved all the way up his ass telling him when to smile and how much because he ran out of money and this is literally the last stop>everything he tried to do besides wrestling wound up being a fumble at best and million+ dollar loss more commonlyI don't care for AEW but seeing a man turn on everything he ever had because the millions of dollars he made in his career was not enough to live on is just sad
>>19719511And he lost lel, guess he doesn't love that place as much as he says he does.
>>19721494If it was about money, he would've stayed in AEW and conned Tony the same way Botcha did. It's not hard, especially considering Tony had a boner for him, and with good reason. After all none of the idiots who stayed in AEW could ever draw half of what Punk did on a bad night. And in Hangman's particular case, he even lowers the ratings and the attendance when he's champion.
>>19721599he got fired retard
>>19719713But enough about who was watching Raw over Christmas when it lost to a burning log
You can look at the ratings and attendance from early 2024 and pinpoint the moment it all came crashing down: when fans realized the biggest AEW "stars" are too big of bitches to make money from real life drama, they'd rather play little faggot games and leak to dirtsheets insteadAEW will never regain their cool factor until they turn some real life beef into wrestling angles/stories, and redeem themselves
>>19721599CM Punk was fired from AEW, you retard. He could not have "stayed if he wanted to"
>>19719681Yup>>19719698That only makes it worse
>>19719511The only time Hangman has ever or will ever be based. Phil is such a disengenuous, hypocritical faggot it almost hurts to look at him these days.
>>19721711Yeah but he was still the biggest draw AEW ever had
