Before CM Punk was released by AEW for his All In physical altercation with Jack Perry, an attempt to get Punk and The Elite in a room to discuss their differences was made.
The issues between them go back to the All Out 2022 brawl. While Punk is gone from AEW, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, and Hangman Page remain with the promotion as they recently signed new contracts.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez noted the supposed meeting that was canceled, which was never officially agreed upon by The Elite, was believed to have been arranged by AEW President Tony Khan.
The idea was for the meeting to happen at the joint show in Atlanta last week, as AEW was taping Collision the same night as Dynamite. The Elite declined Khan’s offer to meet with Punk.
“There are more questions about The Elite and CM punk meeting. So here’s more on this because I heard a lot more about this today. So, the meeting being canceled is essentially a semantic issue, depending on which side you’re talking to. So what happened was they had a Collision-Dynamite taping in Atlanta. They were going to tape both shows. Okay. Right. So I think it was Tony Khan who asked The Elite. It’s like, ‘we’re all going to be in the same place at the same time. Would you like to do this meeting or whatever?’ And they said no. So, from their perspective, there was never a meeting planned that got canceled. They were asked, ‘Would you like to do this meeting since we’re all going to be in the same place?’ And they said no. From Punk’s perspective, he believed he was on his way to a meeting, which then got canceled. And so I guess the analogy would be if your dentist scheduled you for a cleaning and then called you, and you were like, ‘I can’t do the cleaning that day.’ From their perspective, the appointment got canceled. From your perspective, there was no appointment. So that’s essentially the story there. There was nothing that The Elite agreed to, and then said, ‘No, actually, we’re not going to do this.’ Most of these stories about Punk wanting to meet with The Elite. The Elite never even knew that this was never even broached with them in the past. This time, it was broached with them, and they said, no, we’re not going to do it. So that’s the story. On the meeting that was canceled.”
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