Jack Perry lost the FTW Title to HOOK on the AEW All In pre-show before having a reported physical altercation with CM Punk.
During the bout, there was a spot where Perry and HOOK landed on the windshield of a limo where Perry stated to the camera that it was real glass and cry me a river. This was a reference to a previously reported incident between Perry and Punk several weeks ago, where Punk confronted Perry about him wanting to use real glass for a segment.
There was a physical altercation between Punk and Perry at All In, with one side claiming that Punk choked out Perry, who was escorted out of the venue while Punk stayed.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez talked about the situation.
Alvarez: “There was a physical altercation of some sort, either between CM Punk and Jack Perry.”
Meltzer: “Either a punch or a choke.”
Alvarez: “Whether it’s a whole bunch of stories. So I don’t even want to….There was some sort of physical altercation and it was broken up. CM Punk went to the ring for his match [with Samoa Joe] and did you know if you watched CM Punk as he was coming down to the ring, he looked like a guy that was irritated and that’s because something had just happened and he ended up doing the match with Samoa Joe. He ends up winning the match. He goes to the backstage area immediately. There’s security there and security escorts CM Punk went back to his dressing room. Jack Perry was then told to leave. He was removed from the building. CM Punk stayed in his dressing room with security for I’m not sure how long, but eventually, security came and removed him from the building. And then at the post-show press conference, Tony Khan basically started the press conference and said, ‘I’m not going to talk about this any more detail, but there was an altercation tonight, and we are doing an investigation to find out exactly what happened. And that’s all I’m going to say about it.’ So, there was obviously a great deal of unhappiness. There are CM Punk supporters, and obviously, there are a lot of people who are big fans of Jack Perry. And depending on who you’re friends with, you were very upset for one reason or another. There were a lot of people that, you know, they had to wrestle tonight, and they knew all about this and what had happened. And I don’t know if it affected their performance, but obviously, they had to go out there with this knowledge, and there were a lot of people upset about it.”
Meltzer: “So where this goes, we don’t know. There’s an investigation ongoing, and I guess we’ll find out what happens here.”
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