During Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite episode, the promotion showcased the All In incident footage involving CM Punk and Jack Perry. This has led to a lot of backlash among fans for doing so.
This was to add more depth to the FTR vs. The Young Bucks storyline heading into their match at Dynasty as before showing it, The Bucks discussed their loss to FTR at All In and blamed the incident for them losing as they were worried that it may have jeopardized AEW’s biggest event.
They questioned whether FTR might have been behind the incident. The footage showed the altercation between Punk and Perry. Last week, Punk detailed the incident on The MMA Hour.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed the internal reaction to the footage being shown.
“I asked around, and the basic thing was, like, look, ‘It’s over and done with this bad chapter in the history of AEW, and it’s over. And no point when he can say whatever he wants, who cares?’ There were a couple of people who were going, like, Adam Page never got to answer back and won’t and will never answer back because he doesn’t want to be whatever. But most people just like, ‘We’re over it. It’s not part of our lives. It’s not part of our company. Forget about it.’ Now here. As soon as Tony did that, then I started to hear from people. And it was people who are just really frustrated going, like, ‘now it’s back. You know, the whole thing is back and there’s things that have happened, people have been made to look bad now, and they can’t answer back.’ And because you don’t want to, you know, it opened up a wound that needed to be closed. They need to move past this. This doesn’t do AEW, any good. I mean, if I’m Punk, I’m laughing about it. Honestly, I’m laughing about it. “
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