AEW had CM Punk vs. Hangman Adam Page for the AEW World Title as the Double Or Nothing PPV occasion’s centerpiece in 2015. At the time, Page was the babyface champ taking on a red-hot babyface in Punk, fresh off his fight with MJF.
Punk won the match to end up being the champ. It was just recently mentioned on Discord by Ryan Frederick, which was reposted to Reddit here, that Punk was initially expected to lose the match. Punk later on got it altered.
” Hangman was going to beat Punk at DoN up until the employee’s rights discount, Punk got it altered and Tony actually rested on the patio of Punk’s home in LA scheduling out the summertime with Hangman not anywhere near remaining in the mix due to the fact that Punk wasn’t going to deal with him. No chance they were returning to him at any point.”
Dave Meltzer reported in the current concern of the Wrestling Observer Newsletterthis was not the case.
” The story walking around that Punk was initially going to lose to Adam Page at last year’s Double or Nothing however forced Tony Khan to alter the surface is not real. Punk was constantly winning that match.”
Following the locker space battle he entered into with The Elite after All Out, Punk’s future with the promo is up in the air.
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