CM Punk On AEW Locker Room Leaks, His Role On Collision

CM Punk’s highly anticipated/dreaded interview with ESPN’s Marc Raimondi is out, and ahead of his return at AEW Collision, Punk hit out at the AEW locker room for leaking things to the media. He said,

“Now we all got to roll in the f—ing mud, and that never should have happened and has never been course-corrected. So, I understand people want to say that ‘Oh, man, Punk is a dick.’ Well yeah, because I’m defending myself and I will always defend myself. I’m open to have a full-blown f—ing sit-down powwow discussion with everybody about it. But it hasn’t happened yet, and it’s not because of my lack of trying.”

Punk also shared his insights on how Collision will be contributing to AEW and the wrestling landscape as a whole. He said,

“With more TV time, you’re only going to see guys like Hobbs and Starks, people who I think have the potential to do what an MJF has done with his television time but they haven’t been able to be positioned because a guy like MJF gets a big lion share of television time, because he earned it. We just need to do a better job of spotlighting so many different guys, and this is, for a lot of guys, sink or swim. Now it’s just like, well, now’s the time. You’re going to have to really bust your ass and prove why we’re giving you this spotlight and this TV time.”

In regard to his role as the centerpiece of AEW Collision going forward, Punk said,

“If I’m the poster boy — top guy, whatever — this is what people dream about. You get put in a position like this and, you know, can’t take the negative criticism. Personally, I look at it like a challenge.”

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