AEW have shared footage of a demoralised CM Punk backstage after he suffered a shock three-minute defeat to Jon Moxley on Dynamite.
On the August 24th episode of AEW Dynamite, CM Punk and Jon Moxley squared off to crown a new Undisputed AEW World Champion. Moxley had become Interim Champion in Punk’s recent absence with a broken foot, but now it was time to determine one true champion.
Despite the match being one of the most anticipated AEW bouts in recent memory it went on in the middle of the show and was over in under five minutes. Punk landed a vicious kick to Moxley in the early going, which in storyline reinjured his foot.
Sensing the end was near, Moxley went on the attack, pinning his rival following a second Death Rider. In typical Moxley fashion he managed to flip off the camera in the process.
On the following episode of Rampage, AEW released footage of a dejected CM Punk backstage being tended to by doctors. In the clip the former World Champion can be seen questioning whether he has re-broken his recently repaired foot.
For his part, Jon Moxley gave a typically fired up interview as the dust began to settle on his shocking win where he continued to take jabs at the former champion. Moxley explained that while belts come and go he won’t “quit for seven years or feel sorry for myself. That’s not how these things go.”