On Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite, the promotion aired the All In incident footage between CM Punk and Jack Perry.
This was done to further build FTR vs. The Young Bucks at Dynasty. Before the video, The Bucks talked about how they lost to FTR at All In because they were distracted by the incident, and the incident threatened to take down AEW’s biggest show of all time, but “We’re lucky that it didn’t.” They said that FTR could’ve been the mastermind behind the whole thing. The footage showed the incident with Punk and Perry as well as Punk lunging at someone behind a wall in gorilla, presumably AEW President Tony Khan.
Punk said in an MMA Hour that he told Khan that AEW was a joke, Khan was a clown, and that he quit the promotion right after the incident. Khan had previously said in his address to release Punk that he had feared for his life during the incident.
On Tony Khan saying he feared for his life, Punk said: "I can't tell you what Tony felt of what he was thinking but I never did anything to make him fear for his life. He is what he is."
Punk says there was a "concerted effort to slander me and ruin my character." pic.twitter.com/fs0AJrYfRH
— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) April 1, 2024
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted the actual footage of Punk threatening Khan wasn’t shown. It’s unclear why they didn’t show the footage on Dynamite.
“The problem is, and even though, as you talked to me about this a couple of days ago, the incident with Tony was not going to be shown, and it wasn’t shown. But now what’s happened is that people are going like ‘Tony said, he threatened my life. Where’s the footage?’ I mean, he did say that and by showing the footage and having nothing of that, it just made you know it just wasn’t well thought out. I suppose you could have shown that footage too. But that doesn’t even play into storyline at all,” Meltzer stated.
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