During the April 10th, 2024 edition of AEW Dynamite, The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) showed backstage footage of CM Punk’s altercation with Jack Perry from AEW All In 2023. There was also a promotional segment with Will Ospreay, who took a shot at Paul “Triple H” Levesque.
Wade Keller of PWTorch.com was informed that the All In footage being shown “was not something The Bucks were in favor of doing.”
Keller said, “I’ve been checking with people in AEW and I have been told that this was not something The Bucks were in favor of doing. It wasn’t their idea, it was Tony Khan’s idea that he wanted this out there,”
He continued, “They also had Will Ospreay go on camera, interviewed by Renee Paquette on the stage. The first part of his promo was him addressing a comment that Triple H said on the podcast [that was] alluding to Will Ospreay being someone who didn’t want to be part of the grind.”
Keller also said the promo wasn’t Ospreay’s idea. “I’m also told that this was an idea presented to Ospreay,” Keller stated. “I don’t know about Ospreay’s enthusiasm for or against it but it wasn’t something he did on his own. He didn’t wing it. It was something that hours before the interview took place, was proposed to him. That’s what I’m hearing from AEW.”
Keller went on to say that he hasn’t heard anyone who supports the Punk/Perry footage or the Triple H comments airing.
“Based on what I’m hearing from multiple people in AEW, nobody that they know was in favor of what Tony Khan put on TV [between] the Punk footage and the Ospreay did at Triple H. People see it as a distraction and Tony Khan going after two people that Tony has issues with, Punk and Paul Levesque. Tony Khan sees Paul Levesque very much as a foe in his world.”
Keller added, “I would say the morale isn’t great as far as this goes.”
Fightful.com received different information, and the following was noted via Twitter/X:
”Fightful Select is told by those close to the situation that contrary to rumors, The Young Bucks were fine and in favor of doing the segment featuring Jack Perry/CM Punk’s altercation last night. Fightful Select is told that Will Ospreay came in to work on the ‘grind’ promo earlier in the day, and was excited to do the promo, contrary to rumors.”
Fightful also noted that FTR was informed of the plans and signed off on them. There are no known issues with Punk and FTR.
