What is the future of CM Punk following his termination from AEW?
Dave Meltzer and Garrett Gonzales discussed Punk on Friday’s Wrestling Observer Radio. Gonzales brought up something Meltzer mentioned in this week’s newsletter regarding how the clock on a time frame for everyone to sit down and work things out got reset each time Punk made a public remark regarding The Elite.
“I’m sure at some point everybody could have worked together if there were apologies and all that,” Meltzer said. “But it didn’t happen, other things kept happening. It was inevitable….the things that needed to be worked out weren’t.”
Regarding CM Punk’s future, it will ultimately depend if he wants to continue to wrestle. If so, most promotions would likely want him.
“Every promoter but AEW is probably going to want him if he’ll work for them. I don’t know about WWE, that may be the exception. The ball’s in his court.”
Despite WWE’s acquisition by Endeavor, the choice to bring in Punk would ultimately come down to one person.
“This would absolutely be one of those things that’s Vince McMahon’s call,” Meltzer said.
Meltzer argued that if Punk and WWE were to come to an agreement, fans would likely accept his return, noting the recent success of Cody Rhodes. He also brought up that the same would happen for a heel from WWE that jumps to AEW, naming Jimmy Uso as an example.
“He shows up on AEW on Wednesday and the place [will go] bonkers for him,” Meltzer said.
