On Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite, the promotion showed the All In incident between CM Punk and Jack Perry.
This was done to strengthen FTR’s position against the Young Bucks in Dynasty. Before the video, The Bucks discussed how they lost to FTR at All In because they were distracted by the incident, and how the incident threatened to cancel AEW’s biggest show ever, but “We’re lucky that it didn’t.” They speculated that FTR could have been the mastermind behind the whole thing. The video captured the incident between Punk and Perry, as well as Punk lunging at someone behind a wall in gorilla, presumably AEW President Tony Khan.
Punk stated on MMA Hour that he told Khan that AEW was a joke, Khan was a clown, and that he quit the promotion immediately following the incident. Khan previously stated in his speech to release Punk that he feared for his life during the incident.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer mentioned that the actual footage of Punk threatening Khan was not shown. It’s unclear why the footage wasn’t shown on Dynamite.
Meltzer said, “The problem is, and even though, as you talked to me about this a couple of days ago, the incident with Tony was not going to be shown, and it wasn’t shown. But now what’s happened is that people are going like ‘Tony said, he threatened my life. Where’s the footage?’ I mean, he did say that and by showing the footage and having nothing of that, it just made you know it just wasn’t well thought out. I suppose you could have shown that footage too. But that doesn’t even play into storyline at all.”
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
