CM Punk Discusses Foot Injury And Recovery

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AEW star CM Punk has discussed his foot injury and recovery following the All Out pay-per-view.

CM Punk has made a lot of headlines after his controversial rant at the AEW All Out post-show media scrum.

The new AEW World Champion also addressed his major foot injury that resulted in him being sidelined for over two months following his win at Double Or Nothing 2022.

During the AEW All Out media scrum, Punk detailed the severity of the injury.

He said:

“I did the stage dive, what an idiot. I must have hit my foot on the top of the guard rail, but I didn’t feel it. You would think that shit would hurt, but people caught me, put me back down, I waited for FTR, it just didn’t feel right. I thought I just whacked it, but then I wrestled on it, blew a springboard, came off the top with a double axe, did all this shit. What I eventually did was, yeah, I fractured my foot, but then I pulverized the bone. Surgery was supposed to be an hour, it wound up being four a half (hours). I got three plates and 16 screws in my foot and I essentially have a new foot now. It is 100%, but it’s a new 100%. Every day, I rehab. This is the worst injury I’ve ever had. I was in the bedroom for two weeks and it was really hard for me because I wanted to have this great summer, do good for Tony, sell tickets, draw money and ratings.”

Punk continued on to praise his wife AJ Lee for helping him through the recovery process, saying:

“The rehab, I could tell you how hard and painful and grueling it was, but I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. I was doing two and a half hours of rehab, plus, once they told me I could bike, I was biking my life away. Then I would go to the gym later and lift weights. I was trying to bust my ass to hurry up. Not necessarily hurry up to get back, but hurry up and get healthy. If I’m not healthy, I’m no good to anybody. It was really tough. If I was 23, it would have been a hard injury because I literally couldn’t do anything, trying to get around on crutches, up and down stairs. It was pretty bad and depressing.”

CM Punk returned to in-ring competition on the August 24 edition of AEW Dynamite in a loss to Jon Moxley for the Undisputed AEW World Championship.

However, Punk avenged his loss and regained the title against Moxley in the main event of All Out 2022.

Keep track of CM Punk’s win-loss record in 2022 (for televised matches) at this link.

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