AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

I'd say Dave will be occupying a huge amout of brain real estate for him too.Rule of thumb for me with Meltzer is if it's related to AEW he's pushing a narrative but if there is even a chance his non-wrestler account is true then Punk needs lots of help.

A read of twitter this morning the Punk stans haven't taken it well.

Even if it’s done right punk for all his talent doesn’t seem able to ignore people being snarky to him, so I don’t see how him going to back to wwe will work even in a limited run of dates. Until he figures out how to not screw things up it’s not worth it.

I don't buy this narrative of Tony Khan being some babysitter who couldn't mind the kids correctly. These are all adults - grown men - so personal responsibility for your own actions is the only way i interpret all this.

In no work environment can you attack your colleagues over perceived slights in front of your manager, then lunge at the boss when he tries to break it up.

I'm a big fan of Punk the character, but appeasement clearly doesn't work with him. He had to walk, and no one to blame but himself.

The American Dragon is who that locker room needs as it's leader not a Punk type.

Danielson probably coming back a few weeks ahead of schedule just help the company and to keep Starks push going and not throwing a teenage hissy fit like Punk does and did.

Last week it was reported that Tony told his father if anything happened him he should turn to Danielson to run the company.

That locker room won't magically fix itself now that he's gone, I know that much at least.

Not much sympathy out there for him ?

Ì don't think people are suggesting that Punk isn't responsible for his own actions or that he shouldn't have faced repurcussions for them.

I think that at the same point Tony is the boss of the company. I would expect any boss should be able to deal with conflict in the work place with his employees. There's a HR department and Talent Relations in place obviously but the tension between all these parties has been evident long before Brawl Out happened and again before Brawl In. We don't know if anything was done behind the scenes to quell any of this and clearly Punk is more challenging to deal with than your average employee but consistently it seems like little was done backstage to try and stop this from exploding into conflict.

The fight at All Out was the better example of this but had Tony come out and said very clearly that moving Colt Cabana was his decision (he did months after the fact) then things could have been different. Should Page and later Punk have been reprimanded for the shots they took unscripted and unapproved on the mic at each other? Maybe. The fact is there was red flags there that from what we can tell were ignored.

It's not Tony's fault that grown men couldn't get along or sit down and smooth **** out themselves but IMO he does share some blame for not making them sit down for the betterment of his business and to make a more healthy backstage environment. If you're in charge of a company then that stuff should be in your best interests and you doing it is part of the job.

I said this elsewhere; people keep sharing what Kingston and moxley said about Punk as if it was a legitimate shoot, which it wasn't. It's a work, anything said in those promos was agreed beforehand.

I like Hangman, he seems like a good guy, but he started this problem by going off script, and he did it as a locker room leader. People will say Punk went off script as well in his career, but I challenge anyone to give me an example where he did it pre AEW. For example anyone that believes the pipe bomb was a shoot is embarrassing themselves.

Is Bryan face now, not in BCC? I'm guessing he was rushed back in place of Punk

AEW confirmed that Athena has been added to the "Zero Hour" pre-show. The ROH Women's Champion will team with Diamante and Mercedes Martinez to take on Skye Blue, Hikaru Shida, and Willow Nightingale. The pre-show will also feature an Overbudget Battle Royale, with the winner being allowed to donate $50,000 to a charity of their choice. Elsewhere, Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed will defend the AEW World Trios Championship against Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, and Satnam Singh — and Dennis Rodman will be in the former team's corner.

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Wonder who the discipline committee consists of.

A bunch of nobodies in production making it increasingly clear they won't put the show on as long as Punk is still there.