One AEW star went above and beyond to help CM Punk after returning to WWE.
CM Punk’s exit from AEW wasn’t a pleasant one as the star was fired from the company after an investigation into his backstage altercation with Jack Perry at All In. At Survivor Series on November 25th, CM Punk made a shocking return to WWE for the first time since his acrimonious 2014 exit from the sports entertainment giant.
Despite rumors of heat between the two men, QT Marshall recently revealed his gesture to help Punk ahead of his first match back in WWE. Speaking in a new interview with Gabby AF, Marshall detailed receiving a call from Cody Rhodes to help Punk after an issue with his ring gear.
“But anyway, I get a text from Cody like, ‘Hey, do you have a pair of black trunks.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I do, why.’ Well, something happened with Punk’s gear and he’s supposed to return at the Garden and the LA Forum or Kia Forum, I guess it was the Holiday tour with Dominik, it was his first match back for WWE.
I was like, ‘Yeah, let me see.’ I had bought a sewing machine a long time ago so I still had all the tools, I returned the machine, I’m not good at that, I don’t have steady hands. Yeah, I pulled off the seams and Cody sends an Uber to my house, it’s like a two hour ride. I give him a box with a pair of my underwear in it and he brings it, I guess he brought it to TV.”
QT Marshall Doesn’t Know If CM Punk Is Aware Of His Gesture
Continuing, QT Marshall admitted that he’s not sure if CM Punk wore his trunks or not, or whether Punk was aware that he’d sent the trunks to help him.
“I saw photos and he’s wearing trunks, I know Cody gave him a pair of his as well, so I don’t know who’s trunks he was wearing.
I did pull the logo off of mine, I still have the logo sitting with all my gear, which were the trunks I wore when I wrestled Bryan Danielson in Puerto Rico in 2010. I’d like them back, I also don’t even know that Punk even knows and I haven’t reached out. He might know now, but again, it could’ve been the ones that Cody was wearing too, I don’t know.
It just goes to show you, like I said, I’ll help anybody. Especially in wrestling, because I love wrestling. Imagine all those fans that bought tickets to the Garden, they were already mad that he was just wearing black trunks, I remember like reading about it because of course they were like, ‘He didn’t come back in gear.’ It’s like, you don’t know the real story, you especially don’t know the real real story.”
h/t Fightful