Coming out of AEW Dynamite this week, fans were talking about the decision to air the CM Punk/Jack Perry footage and Will Ospreay’s comments about Triple H.
Ospreay’s promo was in response to Triple H as Ospreay talked about the rumors going around about him being afraid of “the grind.” While he wouldn’t usually comment on it, he decided to do so as the man who said got got to where he is by “grinding on the boss’ daughter.” This was after Triple H talked last week in an interview about how certain wrestlers don’t want to take on the grind of working in WWE, and if that’s the case, he doesn’t want them, leading to some fans thinking this was about Ospreay.
As previously reported, Ospreay was pitched the idea for the promo and was enthusiastic with doing it. For more on that, click here.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that Ospreay was going to have a line about Punk, but AEW nixed it.
“Okay, so here’s the basic deal. On Wednesday night, when I saw it because I didn’t know it was coming. Although I knew a lot of background of it right after it happened, I did not know it was coming. It was, ‘Oh, God, Tony.’ Again, everything on that show. It’s still all credit and all blame at the end of the day does go to Tony, that’s the reality. But it was very much this was not Tony Khan going, ‘I can’t stand WWE. I just want to devote two segments to just running those assholes down.’ Right. It’s like, that didn’t happen. In fact, one of them, Will Ospreay’s lines about Punk. They told him no, don’t do it, because it would be overkill. But he was he was not happy with [Pau] Levesque, he felt that they negotiated, he negotiated with them in very good faith never said anything bad about them at all. And felt, you know, just like, yeah, he took, the higher money offer. And the offer that allowed him which was very important him to live in England, when he talked to both sides.”
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