I have not enjoyed wrestling since he’s been back. All In was the first PPV I didn’t but since AEW started because I am just so unexcited for the show knowing there’s such toxins shit going on. I know I might be in the minority here because people seem to like CM Punk for whatever reason, but he makes omen of my favorite things so much less enjoyable. I only watch stuff when I hear that a specific match was really good now
Don’t let it ruin your enjoyment of the product. All-In was incredible. You need to catch it despite the Punk stuff.
And I’m still open to the idea that this is a work/shoot-turned-work. If anyone’s seen Tales From the Territories (or anything where old-school wrestlers talk about the trade), you’ll know the one thing that puts a massive smile on their faces is when they talk about working the fans. Those guys beam like children whenever they tell those stories. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if twenty years from now we see TK, Punk, Matt and Nick Jackson sitting around a table, laughing their asses off about how they got us all.
At the end of the day, everyone involved in this is a carny. Including the “journalists.” They all want attention and drama like this gets it.
If it’s a work, it’s bottom of the barrel, like WCW in 2000.
I’ll be god damned if I let that turd of a human being ruin my enjoyment of AEW
That’s the spirit.
The biggest advantage I have in not being able to watch AEW until the morning after is that I can skip Pepsi Phil’s segments.
I really wish I could not let it hurt my enjoyment of the product but I just have no desire to watch when that guy is such a big part of the show. I was actually looking at the card for All In to see what matches were happening because I wanted to try to get back into it. But then I saw that CM Punk had a match and also there was some storyline of him pretending to be champion. So that tells me that they were eventually going to have him in the title picture again. So I lost interest. Why get invested in a story if you know they are going to make it worse later? It may indeed be a shoot turned into a work, but I don’t have any desire to see CM Punk be beat in a match. I just don’t want to see him at all.