Rumors of another CM Punk beef cleared.
Earlier last year, CM Punk parted ways with AEW and jumped ships to his former promotion WWE at Survivor Series Chicago. The Second City Saint recovered from his injury a couple of months ago and is scheduled to face Drew McIntyre at the upcoming Bad Blood PLE in a Hell in a Cell match.
However, as Punk continues his feud with McIntyre, AEW star and vice President of Show and Creative Coordination QT Marshall cleared the rumors of his past beef with CM Punk. In an interview with Gabby LaSpisa of the Gabby AF podcast, QT Marshall opened up on the misconceptions about his issues with Punk.
One, there was a huge misconception that him and I didn’t get along, that he put a wedge between Tony and I. I don’t think that was the case because we actually spoke in Newark at the Prudential Center and when I first heard about the fact that there was an issue, I went right to the source and I spoke to him like a man and he listened to me like a man. We had another person in there, just in case, just so we could talk because I always felt like it’s easier just to do that.
We both realized like, oh, he doesn’t want me with Will Hobbs because he saw more for Will, and I didn’t want to be with Will as his manager because I didn’t want to be a manager.
That was the end of it, right? Then of course, like a month later, he was kind of gone anyway, so there was that. Then, fast forward, he returns to WWE and I get a text from Cody saying — and this is like after I had left AEW so the rumor was that I left AEW because I wanted to be a big star and CM Punk ruined my relationship with Tony Khan, couldn’t be further from the truth, both sides. Would I love to be a big star? Of course. That’s not what I was going for though, right?
Like I said, all of the stuff about Punk, I didn’t even know because I wasn’t there, I was in Mexico getting hit with light tubes by Penta just to prove to my boss that I can get over. It was wild.”
Marshall further explained that The Second City Saint did not ruin his relationship with Tony Khan after he was taken off from Collision, given he did not want to manage Powerhouse Hobbs.
CM Punk Reflects On His AEW Rampage Debut
After nearly seven years of absence, CM Punk returned to AEW Rampage on August 20th in Chicago. In 2014, Punk parted ways with WWE and tried a career in MMA, before settling in AEW.
In a recent interview with O’Shea Jackson Jr. and T.J. Jefferson’s No-Contest Wrestling podcast, CM Punk reflected on that moment.
So, most people who do live television, I haven’t really experienced it doing TV and movies because you can just do another take. You can kind of just step out and go out, ‘I need a minute.’ This and that. So there is pressure to that but there’s not pressure like live television, live sports.
I don’t know what it’s like to play game seven of the Stanley Cup Final, home game and be down there for the face-off and the puck drops. I don’t know what that experience is like. I think I could maybe draw some parallels to things that I’ve done in my career. But yeah, coming back, there’s a level of imposter syndrome that I think I’ve always dealt with.
Because as much as I’ve always been that guy that shuts out all the negative voices, those voices are still there. After not doing something for seven years and famously having this very public, ugly breakup with the company and not doing anything for seven years, it’s just like the thought is, are people gonna care? Are they gonna remember me?”
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