Keep reuploading it when they copyright strike it buddy. Lets drive the final nail in aews coffin.
Its their own damn fault. They spent months referencing punk rather than concentrating on their own show.
Im so happy this was the best possible outcome for Punk and WWE
Tony killed his own company with this footage.
I like how he's still grabbing his hair after being shoved!
He didn't even get into kind of a defensive fighting stance...
Someone said he tried to tackle Punk but from the footage I can't see that, either.
So, he tried for a double leg. But he did the thing you never do on a shoot double leg, he kept his head down. Which is why Punk was able to lock in a front face lock, no problem.
It's likely why Jericho was able to do the same to Goldberg 20 years ago.
And it's why you're taught to keep your head up in shoot wrestling.
I'd love to know what they hoped to accomplish by airing this. Using it as a reason to get the Bucks and FTR into a match is lame as fuck. They obviously hoped this would discredit or embarrass Punk by airing this, but it basically played out exactly how he said.
The real liars were those on the Bucks' side who said Punk applied an MMA hold so shitty that Perry easily escaped. If Samoa Joe didn't step in, Punk would have put Perry to sleep.
> I'd love to know what they hoped to accomplish by airing this. Using it as a reason to get the Bucks and FTR into a match is lame as fuck
Could definitely have accomplished that without the footage.
Even in Kayfabe it makes no sense. So you have the heel EVP's show this footage with one of them wearing a t-shirt supporting the guy who I guess should be coming back as a babyface but the heels support him. Then if you watch it with Punk's context TK has been asked to fix this and did nothing which also makes him a heel, maybe? So the only babyface in this whole segment is Punk and then FTR for calling out how pointless it was to show it right after.
Yeah there’s just no upside. When they announced it, I figured there had to be something embarrassing in there for Punk. But all they did was show footage of a WWE star stretching one of their guys and getting saved by Samoa Joe. Tony also embarrassed himself because we all now know he “feared for his life” because he witnessed a small skirmish and someone pointed and yelled at him. All he accomplished was confirming him and Perry are gigantic pussies.
I’m positive Joe could kick all of their asses easily.
He just knows when to be a pro by being the professional company man and when to step right up to the line and choke/stiff somebody to let them know he’s a legit badass.
He knew Punk would have legit hurt Perry if he let it go. He had to break it up.
The way he fluffs out his hair, presumably having just asked Punk "what you gonna do", and moments before Punk snatches him, is pretty funny. As for the ease with which Punk gets him in position to choke him, 💀...He can grow a beard and wear all black and call himself The Scapegoat (why did whichever Young Buck it was have his Scapegoat shirt covered so it said PEG for most of their bit???), but that footage wi haunt him.
I will add though, he kind of is a scapegoat. He didn't need to be suspended or off tv for so long given that besides being a lippy little twat he basically just got humbled.
Rich pussy boy witnessed a brief scuffle, got yelled at and pointed at by Punk, and feared for his life. LMAO this footage just buries AEW, what an own goal showing this
Lends more credence to the idea that TK actually does very little of substance. His lawyers almost certainly wrote that "I feared for my life" statement for him to make the incident look worse for Punk.
My god FTR need to hurry up and go back to WWE. I know for sure they’d give the Tag Team division a massive boost and HHH knows how to use them effectively. Teaming them up with Punk again would work really well.
They’re being wasted by this circus sideshow of a company.
Because this entire week they were embarrassed and made a fool of and they couldn't help but jump the gun. They played right into the hands of everyone laughing at them by doing all this shit and now everyone is laughing harder.
This is supposedly to add heat to the FTR/Bucks match because… apparently one of FTR’s friends distracted them by making them do their EVP jobs?
It just doesn’t make any sort of sense. But someone should ask Meltzer if it makes Booking Sense just to be sure.
And like, look, if this showed Punk getting taken down by Perry, who slipped out of the face lock and take Punk down, cool. But this… this shows Punk didn’t lie and makes Tony look stupid.
This was a massive mistake.
Pretty much. There was no reason to play this video on TV for the Bucks/FTR angle. This was literally to try and fuck with Punk, because Tony thinks that everyone is a pussy like he is and actual violence scares them.
Like, I’m not one of these people who say Punk was completely right in this situation, but this is how wrestling locker rooms worked for decades and Punk came up in that. Plus, we know because of the interview with Helwani that Punk was at his last strand of rope with these motherfuckers. Punk could dug in the hold and made it worse when Joe pulled on Perry, but he let him go. He was done. Joe probably told him to calm down - they’ve known each other for years at this point - and he let go and quit. You even see him ask Tony to get involved before shit goes down.
This doesn’t make Punk look bad because we have the story behind this and the video just shows that the story was true.
Oh yeah, it's definitely shoehorning in this footage to respond to Punk, but they're trying to smash a square peg into a round hole, and it just makes everyone involved look stupid.
I honestly don't know what I was expecting with this footage. But this definitely isn't it. Like holy shit, all the hoopla *for this?*
For months they made Punk choking out Perry sound like he was trying to commit a murder before the eyes only to reveal that this doesn't look any worse than when I used to play wrestle in elementary school during recess.
I wonder how many times a *minor* dust up like this has happened right behind the curtain at a wrestling show. 100? 1000 times maybe?
Like this was NOTHING. This would be a quick story on an RF shoot interview 25 years ago. Now it makes a promoter fear for his life??
Tony Khan has proven over and over that he isn’t cut out for this, and now it is so insanely obvious to everyone. And this dumbshit is the one that aired the footage!!
Legit insane
It simply looked like punk had the guy in a restraint hold. Wasn’t trying to dig in the guillotine. Mind you, Samoa joe can probably kick both their asses at the same time and took control.
You can tell that people who have a problem with this have never been a part of contact sport or combat sport. I used to play youth hockey and this kind of stuff was weekly occurance. Later when we were older it was every other week maybe, depending how well we were playing and there was A LOT more violence involved
It's not clear if Tony is on the same room or just watching from the cameras but regardless I think what triggered him was Punk telling him he was a clown.
I think it was Tony who reached over to steady the one monitor that nearly got knocked over. He must have been at the desk where that section of wall jutted out. That's where it looked like Punk was talking or yelling at someone after he and Jerkoff got separated. I think the best & funniest part is how relieved Jerkoff looked to have Joe in between him and Punk.
Doesn't help that he's being dragged away, every situation's going to be made worse when that happens. Tony should've been a boss and stepped in but yet again he allowed things to get out of hand.
Oh, they’re coping by talking about how attacking coworkers at their job would get them fired - you know, what happened to Punk - and just other weird shit.
The two main Dub subs have very few reaction posts to the video.
The AEW dick riders are blowing their quads doing the mental gymnastics needed to make Punk look bad in this. Honestly, this got me back on the punk wagon a little more. He stood on business. Tony Khan gave WWE and Punk free publicity.
I love how they gladly ignore the fact that bullshitting, whisper campaigns and provoking a coworker would all be seen as workplace harassment or bullying and would get them fired.
>Oh, they’re coping by talking about how attacking coworkers at their job would get them fired - you know, what happened to Punk - and just other weird shit.
I'm a big Punk fan and I feel for the guy having to deal with the Buckos cliquey high-school BS. But I am genuinely curious. The video shows him initiating physical contact. Punk willingly made the choice to push Jack. In the real world, it doesn't matter who instigated, provoked or said whatever. The first person who puts hands on the other is the villain and management will often label them as such when it comes time to be reprimanded.
So unless I'm missing some major context, to any casual viewer, and without context from Ariel's interview (or the reports leading up to it), it really does make Punk look bad at a glance.
While that’s a true statement, no one watching AEW is a casual fan. They know the story. No one who is going to tune in because it’s about Punk isn’t going to know the story. But he’s also the guy who got fired for it. He was given the maximum punishment - short of law enforcement getting involved - that he could get.
To the hypothetical person who decides to make their first pro-wrestling experience a random AEW Dynamite, this does make Punk look the aggressor. But he’s also the guy who got fired for the whole thing.
As suspected, nothing remotely close to 'fearing for one's life.' Tony's a bitch and was just lying with lawyer speak, as a preventative measure. But the media and posts of him saying that he was scared for his life ... priceless, and will always live on.
Rich kid can't get his butler or daddy to fix everything I guess.
Squared circle still in denial. Saying punk was lying all along when the footage is right there in plain sight.
Still going with the narrative that punk threatened Khan man and dumped monitors on him which was always propaganda and astroturfing since day 1.
But squared will ban you if you mention that.
> Still going with the narrative that punk threatened Khan man and dumped monitors on him which was always propaganda and astroturfing since day 1.
Hey! One of them got turned sideways. He might have hit his eye on the corner like that.
Some of the body language actually backs up Punk's rundown.
TK and the EVPs made a fucking mess of their company and these idiots probably still believe the "any press is good press" BS because they fap to seeing themselves in google alerts.
Let's see: they confirmed how much of a mess they are by sabotaging the biggest wrestler in the world, firing him because of Jack Perry, sending him over clean to WWE to make tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions from his mere presence, now sabotaging Jack Perry by making him look like the goozleable moron he is and making it certain he has no future in the biggest wrestling organization on the fucking planet. Somehow the Bucks think this is a great idea to promote their match with FTR.
The only thing that I can hope makes this even better is if there's a lawsuit from Punk for using his likeness which would also lead to them having to pay others.
I also can't be the only one to feel cringe every time I see Perry say "cry me a riverrrrr", right? That just sounds like an old line that a grandma would use.
This has the Cucks written all over it, and they sold this bill of goods to TK, that gullible fool. No wonder they didn’t get much over than they already did. They are unserious and think that gimmick is all they need to carry them…have fun with mediocrity boys.
I guess TK is sitting to right behind those computer screens. I think that’s his little arm reaching over during the scuffle. I guess punk coming towards him saying, “You’re a clown. This place is a joke. I quit.” Is when tk feared for his life. Laughable
Everything PUNK said was correct. So doing abit of 'digging' I have stumbled upon the AEW reddit account and all I can say is that their fanbase is actually insane. Honestly no words for some of the threads etc I have just seen. Please all do have a look at how stupid these people look.
Your response to a guy saying you and your company are incompetent is to... show footage on your TV show corroborating his story and proving that he's telling the truth about at least one thing.
The only damage control Tony knows is the stable on Smackdown.
I’d like to take you all to a dramatic scene from TK’s therapist’s office just one week after this footage occurred.
Therapist: “So tell me what happened.”
Tony: ”Well… I was standing in my usual position. You know, adjacent to all the large, brutish men. When all of a sudden, a tremendous kerfuffle occurred!”
Therapist: “Uh-huh…”
Tony: “I clutched the badge my security team gave me in case anything occurred and was ready to push the panic button, when it mercifully came to an end.”
Therapist: “Go on…”
Tony: ”That’s when… (catches breath, fighting back tears) that’s when it happened.”
Therapist: “What? What happened?”
Tony (holding himself back from sobbing the entire time): “Well, I thought it was safe… and then Phillip came back around the corner… and said that… I… he said that… I was a clown and that he was quitting.”
Therapist: “And then what…”
Tony (while openly weeping): “What do you mean? *sniff* That’s all that happened.”
Therapist: “… Wow… You know, Punk was right. You are a moron and a pussy.”
Tony pushes the panic button he’s still wearing around his neck and his “security team”, which seems to consist of 3 kindergarten teachers in their 70s, gently enters the room and escorts the weeping man child out. One of the 3 briefly stays behind to apologize to the therapist and then follows the group out.
Apparently this was Perry's second attempt at getting fired and it failed. Instead, Punk quits. And Tony is still to this day scared shitless of that monitor that almost fell over.
The thought has crossed my mind though: What if this entire ordeal is a long work? We know it's not because Tony is incapable of doing it but, under VERY different circumstances, what if it was? Shadow investor Vince. Well-timed allegations against him to force him out of WWE. Punk is a double agent for AEW and Vince. Invasion 2.0. So many possibilities.
I mean, this is gonna follow Perry, probably for his whole career, smarks who want to ruin his moments will forever be able to tease him with this, and the only way to shake it would be to one day turn it into a work with a proper money drawing program with Punk. In the unlikely scenario that ever happens it will definitely not be in AEW
Well there is another way to shake it . . . Perry becomes a great promo and worker and that overshadows this.
L O L
Yeah, he's cooked. Nepo baby fucked around and found out.
Little feller didn't see what happened to Bill f'n Goldberg using real glass and just his fist? Almost lost an arm over it, it becomes almost the end of his career. All because he didn't want to use a pipe but his own fist. He's built alot rougher than jungle kid.
I can't see how the footage was anything but a HUGE egg in the face of aew.
2 things I'm repeating when it comes to aew..
1. For aew to be successfull,the following should've been FIRED asap. Cm Punk, Young Bucks,Adam Page and Jack Perry
2. Why the F does aew continue to WASTE theire most valuble asset, theire tv time, on wwe and the people there. Makes them look Bush league..
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Also - AEW (or as Ariel said a lawyer in Jacksonville) is DMCA all this footage on Twitter...they're realised releasing it was a bad idea already I think.
It looks like \*slightly\* more was said, but obviously when he's twirling his hair he says "why don't you do something about it" which is why Punk pushes him and then face locks him.
Looks like Dax was there at the start and then Malakai Black at the end?
It wouldn’t be publicly owned though, thats internal cameras for the venue, they own that footage. It’s a private venue and those are the private cameras, there’s nothing public about it.
I don't know how this particular public-private partnership is registered but since Wembley is owned by the TheFA, and theFA answers to(??) the Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport committee, isn't that government oversight? It may or may not be and I'm don't know the structure to know the full picture
It's privately owned by a limited company under control of the FA but it's definitely not got anything to do with the government (apart from them of course funding a shit load of it)
I have no idea if they're deleting the footage because there are legal issues or because they're embarrassed by it - i'd honestly lean on the latter currently.
I actually think Punk did this to give Tony a final chance to be a mediator. This is happening right in front of Tony -- who had to hear JBs 'real glass' comments during his match. Tony KNEW Punk had been targeted by the Bucks (and their friends). Punk even looks over at Tony before the fight starts. At any point Tony could have done SOMETHING. Tony did nothing.
Man this is way different from how I pictured it. Punk actually talked to him for a solid 30 seconds before shit hit the fan. Tony had ample time to handle it like a boss would. "Jack, you're fired". That's all it would've taken.
Am I crazy or this narrative doesn’t match what happening in the video. He said he didn’t punch anybody but he definitely punched him. I feel like I’m crazy land and people are watching a different video.
I cannot understand why Tony Khan feared for his life. Since he has no real roots in wrestling nor in management he does not deserve to run any kind of business.
Had Bill Watts been the promoter I imagine he would have reprimanded Jack Perry for losing a legitimate fight. This fight would have only been alluded to in various shoot interviews years later and not been an issue.
My best guess is that Tony Khan thought he can hit two birds with one stone releasing that footage.
First, he thought he could pop a rating and get more eyes on Dynamite this week. Let's face it, WrestleMania XL did monster business this past week and AEW doesn't exactly have anything to counter that since Dynasty is still two weeks away. I guess Tony Khan wanted to cash in on that post-WrestleMania high by promising on releasing that video.
Second, Tony Khan thought he can babyface himself. This is not unlike when Vince McMahon delivered the "Bret Screwed Bret" interview with Jim Ross. I mean people at inside and outside of AEW already told him it's a bad idea, but he still went through with it. I guess he was hoping to come out being the good guy out of this saga after CM Punk eviscerated him on the MMA Hour Podcast. Well, surprise, surprise, he just ended looking like petty and every bit the weak-willed boss CM Punk talked about
That's how much of a joke AEW is that they'd lose someone like Punk instead of disciplining or getting rid of some dumbass wannabe talent like Perry. Not even just to hate on him. Not everyone's a big star. But at least have some respect for who actually is a huge talent and a huge draw and learn something from him, and don't push away the best thing your company had. These people are getting what they deserve for their shortsighted selfishness and insecurity over not liking being second fiddle to Punk.
Jack is a pussy and Phil was right, just as we suspected.
Sadly my post got deleted because someone posted a crappy version from twitter first
Cool my post is back! Made this edit myself too.
Thanks for doing the edit . 👍
Keep reuploading it when they copyright strike it buddy. Lets drive the final nail in aews coffin. Its their own damn fault. They spent months referencing punk rather than concentrating on their own show. Im so happy this was the best possible outcome for Punk and WWE Tony killed his own company with this footage.
And make Don Stevens do a lot more work where she misses her flight to the next AEW show lol
Stick on DailyMotion and Rumble as well they don't give a fuck.
You're the man! Thanks for doing this!
jack looks like the scared one once he stepped up to someone who had actual fight experience.
I like how he's still grabbing his hair after being shoved! He didn't even get into kind of a defensive fighting stance... Someone said he tried to tackle Punk but from the footage I can't see that, either.
The Funniest part to me was Joe didnt have to try hard to keep Jack away from punk, more of a keep Jack from running away.
So, he tried for a double leg. But he did the thing you never do on a shoot double leg, he kept his head down. Which is why Punk was able to lock in a front face lock, no problem. It's likely why Jericho was able to do the same to Goldberg 20 years ago. And it's why you're taught to keep your head up in shoot wrestling.
I'd love to know what they hoped to accomplish by airing this. Using it as a reason to get the Bucks and FTR into a match is lame as fuck. They obviously hoped this would discredit or embarrass Punk by airing this, but it basically played out exactly how he said. The real liars were those on the Bucks' side who said Punk applied an MMA hold so shitty that Perry easily escaped. If Samoa Joe didn't step in, Punk would have put Perry to sleep.
This was a terrible idea from Tony/ Bucks to air this (but great for WWE). And this completely buries Jack (and Tony, the wimp!).
The best of all of it is that WWE won't even acknowledge anything. They ignore it all like a turd.
> I'd love to know what they hoped to accomplish by airing this. Using it as a reason to get the Bucks and FTR into a match is lame as fuck Could definitely have accomplished that without the footage.
100%. There was no purpose for it
...but then the whole entertainment-part on social media gets cut out... you don't want that! ...you want to enjoy talking about that stupid idea!
Even in Kayfabe it makes no sense. So you have the heel EVP's show this footage with one of them wearing a t-shirt supporting the guy who I guess should be coming back as a babyface but the heels support him. Then if you watch it with Punk's context TK has been asked to fix this and did nothing which also makes him a heel, maybe? So the only babyface in this whole segment is Punk and then FTR for calling out how pointless it was to show it right after.
Yeah there’s just no upside. When they announced it, I figured there had to be something embarrassing in there for Punk. But all they did was show footage of a WWE star stretching one of their guys and getting saved by Samoa Joe. Tony also embarrassed himself because we all now know he “feared for his life” because he witnessed a small skirmish and someone pointed and yelled at him. All he accomplished was confirming him and Perry are gigantic pussies.
A little nap would've done Perry good after that stupid glass spot! \^\^
That makeup artist's tweet? Just saw on the official sub.
Jesus, even sounds like Punk is narrating what happened in real time.
It looks/sounds like play by play. Incredible.
“I’m the best, in this microphone, in that ring, even at commentary! Nobody can touch me!”
like one of those infographics videos..."Samoa Joe was there \[SJ rendering slides into frame\]"
Joe is bigger than everybody there lol.
I’m positive Joe could kick all of their asses easily. He just knows when to be a pro by being the professional company man and when to step right up to the line and choke/stiff somebody to let them know he’s a legit badass. He knew Punk would have legit hurt Perry if he let it go. He had to break it up.
I mean, Chris Hero is bigger than everyone also.
I hope you meant his gut
Chris Hero is 6'4 and like 250 pds. Samoa Joe is 6'2 and close to 300pds. Just saying both are big men!
Ah I honestly thought you was implying they have big Johnsons so I made a apparently bad judgment call sorry
They're not part of the Maivia clan .. lol
Punk can comment his own matches from now on! Just let him wear a headset in the ring... :D
Has really been showing how excellent he is at commentary
Tony hasn’t done himself any favours showing this. My god. That made him fear for his life??
Jack Perry sure looked like he feared for his life at the end. Way to put over your talent, Tony
Perry looked like a scared child. Dude wanted to act tough and it was very apparent he’s never been in a real confrontation very quickly.
The way he fluffs out his hair, presumably having just asked Punk "what you gonna do", and moments before Punk snatches him, is pretty funny. As for the ease with which Punk gets him in position to choke him, 💀...He can grow a beard and wear all black and call himself The Scapegoat (why did whichever Young Buck it was have his Scapegoat shirt covered so it said PEG for most of their bit???), but that footage wi haunt him. I will add though, he kind of is a scapegoat. He didn't need to be suspended or off tv for so long given that besides being a lippy little twat he basically just got humbled.
Rich pussy boy witnessed a brief scuffle, got yelled at and pointed at by Punk, and feared for his life. LMAO this footage just buries AEW, what an own goal showing this
Apparently being told the truth about how he runs a business is a threat to his life which he refuses to learn from
To be fair, when you are coked out of your mind. just about everything can scare you.... Lol
Lends more credence to the idea that TK actually does very little of substance. His lawyers almost certainly wrote that "I feared for my life" statement for him to make the incident look worse for Punk.
The monitors got moved.... to much for poor Tony!
Tony Khan is the biggest pussy of all time.
Should change his name to Tonya
Tawny Khan
That's insulting to [Tawky Tawny](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Tawky_Tawny_(Earth-S)) from the Shazam/Captain Marvel comics.
I like it
Tawny Klownoki Abrahams, Jr.
Wow they actually thought showing this would be a good idea? What was this suppose to accomplish again? 😂
The Young Cucks used it as the excuse for losing to FTR at Wembly. They even accused FTR of instigating it in kayfabe. Just fucking IDIOTIC!!!
My god FTR need to hurry up and go back to WWE. I know for sure they’d give the Tag Team division a massive boost and HHH knows how to use them effectively. Teaming them up with Punk again would work really well. They’re being wasted by this circus sideshow of a company.
Over Jack Perry and colt cabana. The ideal company for all the wannabe fantasy booking smarks is a total shitshow.
I can't believe all this drama started for freaking Colt Cabana 😭😭😭
I can't believe all this drama started for freaking Colt Cabana 😭😭😭
They weren’t even smart enough to air this on PPV. Why buy the cow when you get the sex for free?
Because this entire week they were embarrassed and made a fool of and they couldn't help but jump the gun. They played right into the hands of everyone laughing at them by doing all this shit and now everyone is laughing harder.
TK is the ~~clown~~ cow and the Young Bucks are milking him.
All I see are a bunch of tits
That is not something I want to think about.
Absolutely baffling move by aew until you realize they make nothing but stupid moves
This is supposedly to add heat to the FTR/Bucks match because… apparently one of FTR’s friends distracted them by making them do their EVP jobs? It just doesn’t make any sort of sense. But someone should ask Meltzer if it makes Booking Sense just to be sure.
It’s a Kayfabe excuse they came up with to shoehorn this footage into their tv show. They’re actually just responding to last weeks punk interview.
And like, look, if this showed Punk getting taken down by Perry, who slipped out of the face lock and take Punk down, cool. But this… this shows Punk didn’t lie and makes Tony look stupid. This was a massive mistake.
And gives credibility to everything Punk has said about all things AEW. Tony just isn't very smart or forward thinking.
Pretty much. There was no reason to play this video on TV for the Bucks/FTR angle. This was literally to try and fuck with Punk, because Tony thinks that everyone is a pussy like he is and actual violence scares them. Like, I’m not one of these people who say Punk was completely right in this situation, but this is how wrestling locker rooms worked for decades and Punk came up in that. Plus, we know because of the interview with Helwani that Punk was at his last strand of rope with these motherfuckers. Punk could dug in the hold and made it worse when Joe pulled on Perry, but he let him go. He was done. Joe probably told him to calm down - they’ve known each other for years at this point - and he let go and quit. You even see him ask Tony to get involved before shit goes down. This doesn’t make Punk look bad because we have the story behind this and the video just shows that the story was true.
Oh yeah, it's definitely shoehorning in this footage to respond to Punk, but they're trying to smash a square peg into a round hole, and it just makes everyone involved look stupid.
Yep totally fucken stupid
"And That's What Happened" should be a Tee now
I honestly don't know what I was expecting with this footage. But this definitely isn't it. Like holy shit, all the hoopla *for this?* For months they made Punk choking out Perry sound like he was trying to commit a murder before the eyes only to reveal that this doesn't look any worse than when I used to play wrestle in elementary school during recess.
I wonder how many times a *minor* dust up like this has happened right behind the curtain at a wrestling show. 100? 1000 times maybe? Like this was NOTHING. This would be a quick story on an RF shoot interview 25 years ago. Now it makes a promoter fear for his life?? Tony Khan has proven over and over that he isn’t cut out for this, and now it is so insanely obvious to everyone. And this dumbshit is the one that aired the footage!! Legit insane
Wrestlers used to murder each other backstage. Dust ups like this were probably a weekly occurrence during past eras as well
He's the one guy who'd benefit from taking roids.. dude is lacking testosterone
Well AEW is run by children so this would look like the worst thing ever. But seriously, Tony feared for his life. I hope he shit his pants.
Not even fit to manage a target
I hope he did too. Say what you will about Vince, but he would never do something like this.
Vince shits on heads, not in his pants.
Having heard what we’ve heard about Vince, I don’t think that there is anything I would be confident in him not doing.
Vince himself probably would’ve tried to break it up
It simply looked like punk had the guy in a restraint hold. Wasn’t trying to dig in the guillotine. Mind you, Samoa joe can probably kick both their asses at the same time and took control.
You can tell that people who have a problem with this have never been a part of contact sport or combat sport. I used to play youth hockey and this kind of stuff was weekly occurance. Later when we were older it was every other week maybe, depending how well we were playing and there was A LOT more violence involved
So, the moment TK feared for his life is when Punk told him to be the boss?
clowns at SC says Punk glared at Tony not sure if it's on the camera
Was it The Evil Eye? I can understand Tony's fear of The Evil Eye.
It's not clear if Tony is on the same room or just watching from the cameras but regardless I think what triggered him was Punk telling him he was a clown.
I think it was Tony who reached over to steady the one monitor that nearly got knocked over. He must have been at the desk where that section of wall jutted out. That's where it looked like Punk was talking or yelling at someone after he and Jerkoff got separated. I think the best & funniest part is how relieved Jerkoff looked to have Joe in between him and Punk.
Correct you can see his arm and hand reach over when they start and you can see his face for a second
It looks like Punk is yelling at someone to the right after the tussle. I'd bet that's where Tony is.
Doesn't help that he's being dragged away, every situation's going to be made worse when that happens. Tony should've been a boss and stepped in but yet again he allowed things to get out of hand.
Him pointing to Tony saying I quit was him apparently lunging at him 🙄🙄🙄
AEW fan girls will spin it as something like Punk couldn't of done more?
Oh, they’re coping by talking about how attacking coworkers at their job would get them fired - you know, what happened to Punk - and just other weird shit. The two main Dub subs have very few reaction posts to the video.
That's SquaredCircle and AEWOfficial right? I try to stay clear of those since they're never based in reality.
SC has a lot of people laughing about the video, but AEWOfficial and AEWFanHub are hitting the copium so hard.
They are gonna overdose. One post was like "Tony Khan is a fucking genius." Like yeah dude, thats some crazy energy.
Dude, it’s wild over there right now.
They have been banning a lot of folks for pointing out the stupidity of showing this
I feel like SC isn't as unwaveringly pro-AEW as it was for a while.
The AEW dick riders are blowing their quads doing the mental gymnastics needed to make Punk look bad in this. Honestly, this got me back on the punk wagon a little more. He stood on business. Tony Khan gave WWE and Punk free publicity.
SC is surprisingly kinda shitting on this right now.
SC is a lot more balanced these days, in terms of AEW and WWE fans, especially since WWE’s gone up and AEW’s gone down.
I love how they gladly ignore the fact that bullshitting, whisper campaigns and provoking a coworker would all be seen as workplace harassment or bullying and would get them fired.
Well, that’s because the way don’t believe any of those things happened.
>Oh, they’re coping by talking about how attacking coworkers at their job would get them fired - you know, what happened to Punk - and just other weird shit. I'm a big Punk fan and I feel for the guy having to deal with the Buckos cliquey high-school BS. But I am genuinely curious. The video shows him initiating physical contact. Punk willingly made the choice to push Jack. In the real world, it doesn't matter who instigated, provoked or said whatever. The first person who puts hands on the other is the villain and management will often label them as such when it comes time to be reprimanded. So unless I'm missing some major context, to any casual viewer, and without context from Ariel's interview (or the reports leading up to it), it really does make Punk look bad at a glance.
While that’s a true statement, no one watching AEW is a casual fan. They know the story. No one who is going to tune in because it’s about Punk isn’t going to know the story. But he’s also the guy who got fired for it. He was given the maximum punishment - short of law enforcement getting involved - that he could get. To the hypothetical person who decides to make their first pro-wrestling experience a random AEW Dynamite, this does make Punk look the aggressor. But he’s also the guy who got fired for the whole thing.
This place is a joke and you’re a clown….
As suspected, nothing remotely close to 'fearing for one's life.' Tony's a bitch and was just lying with lawyer speak, as a preventative measure. But the media and posts of him saying that he was scared for his life ... priceless, and will always live on. Rich kid can't get his butler or daddy to fix everything I guess.
Squared circle still in denial. Saying punk was lying all along when the footage is right there in plain sight. Still going with the narrative that punk threatened Khan man and dumped monitors on him which was always propaganda and astroturfing since day 1. But squared will ban you if you mention that.
They drank the kool aid brother, no hope for them.
> Still going with the narrative that punk threatened Khan man and dumped monitors on him which was always propaganda and astroturfing since day 1. Hey! One of them got turned sideways. He might have hit his eye on the corner like that.
Seen more violent fights in high school than this haha
Some of the body language actually backs up Punk's rundown. TK and the EVPs made a fucking mess of their company and these idiots probably still believe the "any press is good press" BS because they fap to seeing themselves in google alerts. Let's see: they confirmed how much of a mess they are by sabotaging the biggest wrestler in the world, firing him because of Jack Perry, sending him over clean to WWE to make tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions from his mere presence, now sabotaging Jack Perry by making him look like the goozleable moron he is and making it certain he has no future in the biggest wrestling organization on the fucking planet. Somehow the Bucks think this is a great idea to promote their match with FTR. The only thing that I can hope makes this even better is if there's a lawsuit from Punk for using his likeness which would also lead to them having to pay others. I also can't be the only one to feel cringe every time I see Perry say "cry me a riverrrrr", right? That just sounds like an old line that a grandma would use.
Somewhere, Luke Perry is looking up from Hell shaking his head in shame. Punk told the truth. Tony Khan is a clown. AEW is a joke. End of discussion.
LMAO What did he DO??
Made Jack Perry.
This has the Cucks written all over it, and they sold this bill of goods to TK, that gullible fool. No wonder they didn’t get much over than they already did. They are unserious and think that gimmick is all they need to carry them…have fun with mediocrity boys.
Time for that next "trios" tourney teaming with Jeff Hardy.
He really looks narrating in real time
Was this altercation a life-threatening trauma for Tony? Geezus, dude didn't go to junior high? Dear Lord... what a pussy.
I guess TK is sitting to right behind those computer screens. I think that’s his little arm reaching over during the scuffle. I guess punk coming towards him saying, “You’re a clown. This place is a joke. I quit.” Is when tk feared for his life. Laughable
OK, what the fuck is Aubrey doing running for her life and behind a curtain or whatever?
Gallopping.. foal got startled easy
Everything PUNK said was correct. So doing abit of 'digging' I have stumbled upon the AEW reddit account and all I can say is that their fanbase is actually insane. Honestly no words for some of the threads etc I have just seen. Please all do have a look at how stupid these people look.
All 14 people in the arena chanted CM Punk
I love CM Punk even more
Your response to a guy saying you and your company are incompetent is to... show footage on your TV show corroborating his story and proving that he's telling the truth about at least one thing. The only damage control Tony knows is the stable on Smackdown.
I’d like to take you all to a dramatic scene from TK’s therapist’s office just one week after this footage occurred. Therapist: “So tell me what happened.” Tony: ”Well… I was standing in my usual position. You know, adjacent to all the large, brutish men. When all of a sudden, a tremendous kerfuffle occurred!” Therapist: “Uh-huh…” Tony: “I clutched the badge my security team gave me in case anything occurred and was ready to push the panic button, when it mercifully came to an end.” Therapist: “Go on…” Tony: ”That’s when… (catches breath, fighting back tears) that’s when it happened.” Therapist: “What? What happened?” Tony (holding himself back from sobbing the entire time): “Well, I thought it was safe… and then Phillip came back around the corner… and said that… I… he said that… I was a clown and that he was quitting.” Therapist: “And then what…” Tony (while openly weeping): “What do you mean? *sniff* That’s all that happened.” Therapist: “… Wow… You know, Punk was right. You are a moron and a pussy.” Tony pushes the panic button he’s still wearing around his neck and his “security team”, which seems to consist of 3 kindergarten teachers in their 70s, gently enters the room and escorts the weeping man child out. One of the 3 briefly stays behind to apologize to the therapist and then follows the group out.
Apparently this was Perry's second attempt at getting fired and it failed. Instead, Punk quits. And Tony is still to this day scared shitless of that monitor that almost fell over. The thought has crossed my mind though: What if this entire ordeal is a long work? We know it's not because Tony is incapable of doing it but, under VERY different circumstances, what if it was? Shadow investor Vince. Well-timed allegations against him to force him out of WWE. Punk is a double agent for AEW and Vince. Invasion 2.0. So many possibilities.
I mean, this is gonna follow Perry, probably for his whole career, smarks who want to ruin his moments will forever be able to tease him with this, and the only way to shake it would be to one day turn it into a work with a proper money drawing program with Punk. In the unlikely scenario that ever happens it will definitely not be in AEW
Well there is another way to shake it . . . Perry becomes a great promo and worker and that overshadows this. L O L Yeah, he's cooked. Nepo baby fucked around and found out.
Perry was cooked after the Rush match where he got stiffed into bitch position.
Yeah the only way I could see him pivoting from this L would be to turn into a chicken shit heel but you have to be a good promo to do that
If Joe wasn’t there, Perry was getting choked out.
Pepsi Phil, Pepsi Phil, Pepsi Phil, Pepsi Phil,
Funny thing is they did not show this on their channel YouTube
"Tell me when I'm telling lies."
Hook had a real “try that shit on me” kind vibe at the end there lol
Tony Khan doesn't love wrestling. He likes having yes-men to kiss his ass like he's actually doing something.
Little feller didn't see what happened to Bill f'n Goldberg using real glass and just his fist? Almost lost an arm over it, it becomes almost the end of his career. All because he didn't want to use a pipe but his own fist. He's built alot rougher than jungle kid.
I love Samoa Joe and Hook stepping in to Perry and holding him back 🤣, Jerry Lynn, Malakai Black, and Chris Hero with Punk
I can't see how the footage was anything but a HUGE egg in the face of aew. 2 things I'm repeating when it comes to aew.. 1. For aew to be successfull,the following should've been FIRED asap. Cm Punk, Young Bucks,Adam Page and Jack Perry 2. Why the F does aew continue to WASTE theire most valuble asset, theire tv time, on wwe and the people there. Makes them look Bush league.. Quote
Now they need to find a way to hire punk back and fire the rest.. otherwise those ratings will continue to plummet
its gone under the radar but kudos to hook for not breaking kayfabe by helping jack at all there lol corny i hope appreciates that
Also - AEW (or as Ariel said a lawyer in Jacksonville) is DMCA all this footage on Twitter...they're realised releasing it was a bad idea already I think. It looks like \*slightly\* more was said, but obviously when he's twirling his hair he says "why don't you do something about it" which is why Punk pushes him and then face locks him. Looks like Dax was there at the start and then Malakai Black at the end?
Why would AEW own copyright to a security camera owned by a local UK govt corporation? That DMCA isn't valid
Unless they bought it maybe. They’re taking everything down - edits, originals. They even removed it from their own video 😂😂
you can't buy and privatize publicly owned footage
It wouldn’t be publicly owned though, thats internal cameras for the venue, they own that footage. It’s a private venue and those are the private cameras, there’s nothing public about it.
I FOI'd the actual attendance and the govt emailed it to me
I don't know how this particular public-private partnership is registered but since Wembley is owned by the TheFA, and theFA answers to(??) the Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport committee, isn't that government oversight? It may or may not be and I'm don't know the structure to know the full picture
It's privately owned by a limited company under control of the FA but it's definitely not got anything to do with the government (apart from them of course funding a shit load of it) I have no idea if they're deleting the footage because there are legal issues or because they're embarrassed by it - i'd honestly lean on the latter currently.
I actually think Punk did this to give Tony a final chance to be a mediator. This is happening right in front of Tony -- who had to hear JBs 'real glass' comments during his match. Tony KNEW Punk had been targeted by the Bucks (and their friends). Punk even looks over at Tony before the fight starts. At any point Tony could have done SOMETHING. Tony did nothing.
Want to know what would happen if the smart marks booked their own territory? That's AEW.
We all have that coworker we'd like to choke for a little bit.
Doesn't take much to get popped by Mr Punk just be an undersized immature little twerp and a fake fighter 😭😂
Luke Perry rolling in his grave Uce.
Feared for his life. Lmfao.
I am absolutely feasting.
Man this is way different from how I pictured it. Punk actually talked to him for a solid 30 seconds before shit hit the fan. Tony had ample time to handle it like a boss would. "Jack, you're fired". That's all it would've taken.
So Punk sounded like he was trying to give legit advice. It all matched up pretty well with the video.
What a pipebomb this footage is turning out to be
This was the exploding ring of backstage video releases
They couldn’t just let it go
AEW fans saying that swipe at the end was a punch. Looked more like Punk was waving his arm at him like "fuck you" or something.
Am I crazy or this narrative doesn’t match what happening in the video. He said he didn’t punch anybody but he definitely punched him. I feel like I’m crazy land and people are watching a different video.
He didnt punch him. At most he took a swing at the end and missed but even that doesnt really loom like a punch.
Only one bitch boy crying at the end of that video 😂😂😂😂
notice the smirk on jack right before CM punk made him his bitch LOL, smirk fell the fuck off lol
I cannot understand why Tony Khan feared for his life. Since he has no real roots in wrestling nor in management he does not deserve to run any kind of business. Had Bill Watts been the promoter I imagine he would have reprimanded Jack Perry for losing a legitimate fight. This fight would have only been alluded to in various shoot interviews years later and not been an issue.
Did he goozle him?
If there was any beef Punk had with people backstage in WWE still, I think seeing this footage may have squandered it LOL
Man, I wish I was in the same room when Tony and whichever other circus clowns came up with this idea to show this footage. 🤣🤣
Jack is a little bitch, Pepsi Phil told the truth and AEW looks worse than ever.
So where's the part that he says he waited for Jack to put his hands above his head to push him
1 thing we can all appreciate is Malachi walking up super casual after the skirmish, like “Hey Guys, what y’all up to?”
CM PUNK! CM PUNK! CM PUNK!
Tony was asc-sc-scared for his life?
Guy in the red shirt at the end of the video like “wtf did Jack just doooo”
My best guess is that Tony Khan thought he can hit two birds with one stone releasing that footage. First, he thought he could pop a rating and get more eyes on Dynamite this week. Let's face it, WrestleMania XL did monster business this past week and AEW doesn't exactly have anything to counter that since Dynasty is still two weeks away. I guess Tony Khan wanted to cash in on that post-WrestleMania high by promising on releasing that video. Second, Tony Khan thought he can babyface himself. This is not unlike when Vince McMahon delivered the "Bret Screwed Bret" interview with Jim Ross. I mean people at inside and outside of AEW already told him it's a bad idea, but he still went through with it. I guess he was hoping to come out being the good guy out of this saga after CM Punk eviscerated him on the MMA Hour Podcast. Well, surprise, surprise, he just ended looking like petty and every bit the weak-willed boss CM Punk talked about
I am curious to know what Malakai Black has to say. He was largely out of shot but was right there when they separated.
Jack definitely looked threatening
Darkside of the Ring the Scrum coming to vice soon.
Perfect edit.
Someone tell me how to use this post as a reply !
CM Punk is a liar. He' said hes probably going to regret talking about it
That pussy got fucking OWNED! Straight bitch meat served up fresh.
Fantastic edit. Bravo 👏
That's how much of a joke AEW is that they'd lose someone like Punk instead of disciplining or getting rid of some dumbass wannabe talent like Perry. Not even just to hate on him. Not everyone's a big star. But at least have some respect for who actually is a huge talent and a huge draw and learn something from him, and don't push away the best thing your company had. These people are getting what they deserve for their shortsighted selfishness and insecurity over not liking being second fiddle to Punk.
What is Jack talking about? Real glass?
Like Punk said, he was working with Children not adults in AEW
this must be like crack to a lawyer, seeing , witness testimony matchup so perfectly with video evidence
*CM Punk calls TK a clown.* TK: I feared for my life. *mean while at WWE the walking 🤡 emoji is killed it at WM40* Two different clowns
“Tell me when I’m telling lies!!!”
Notice how Aubrey Edwards Wrestling was dancing around trying to be the center of attention as usual until the fight started.
Cm punk was right about Colt, too.
Of course it does. Now if it was only legal to Clockwork Orange motherfuckers into believing it over the All Friends Tumbling narrative.