The tensions in AEW aren’t settling down anytime soon.
After Saturday’s Collision went off the air, CM Punk cut a post-show promo thanking the audience before directing his remarks towards Hangman Page, calling him a “peg warmer” and how nobody buys Page’s merchandise while Punk claimed he was the one driving ticket sales.
On Monday morning’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer talked about the situation. Meltzer reiterated that this was not a storyline.
“Believe me, that is not the case,” Meltzer said. “Every time Punk does something like this it makes things worse…there’s been stuff since day one that’s been going on. A lot of people wanted to keep it quiet but it’s not quiet now because once he did that, things started to come out.”
Page was originally set to be at the Collision tapings on Saturday to do a pre-tape that would air on another AEW show. However, he was later told that the pre-tape had been moved to another building.
Ryan Nemeth was also scheduled to be at Saturday’s tapings, but was told not to go to the building. Back on the debut episode of Collision in June, Nemeth and Punk had words regarding something Nemeth wrote on Twitter that Punk perceived to be aimed at him.
“I was told it was all settled, it wasn’t a big deal. Obviously it was not all settled,” Meltzer said.
Meltzer said this was not the only time this has happened, specifically naming Matt Hardy and Christopher Daniels as two people who were originally booked for the Saturday show, but were later removed.
“How this is going to end, I don’t know. The idea that they are keeping people apart because some people don’t want other people in the dressing room, however this is all going…as far as the people themselves, they believe it’s Punk. Everyone believes it’s Punk. I’m sure Tony [Khan] will say it’s not Punk.”
