WWE Hall Of Famer Says WWE Shouldn’t Touch ‘Old & Fragile’ CM Punk

WWE Hall Of Famer Says WWE Shouldn’t Touch ‘Old & Fragile’ CM Punk AEW

CM Punk is seemingly on his way out of AEW following the now infamous All Out post show media scrum.

The scrum saw Punk run down the executive vice presidents of the country, before getting involved in a backstage altercation with the Elite.

The altercation led to all people involved being suspended from the company.

The Elite are seemingly on their way back to the company at Full Gear, but Punk is seemingly on his way out of the company altogether.

With Punk seemingly out of the door in AEW, that has naturally led to speculation about WWE bringing Punk back into the fold.

WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff spoke to WrestlingInc about CM Punk, where he said that he wouldn’t touch Punk with a 10 foot pole if he was in WWE.

He said:

“I don’t know what Paul Levesque is thinking, I don’t know what their plans are, their strategies are, so I have no idea. I can tell you from my perspective, I wouldn’t touch him with a 10-foot pole.

“I think CM Punk had a mystique because of WWE, and because of the pipe bomb interview, and because he walked out, that created this aura and mystique that Tony [Khan] brought to AEW and took advantage of for a minute.

“And once that mystique was gone, once you kind of let that air out of the balloon, and now you’re just performing every week, I didn’t see it in Punk. I just didn’t see it in him as a character, I didn’t see it in him in the ring –- he was good, but he wasn’t phenomenal.”

Bischoff continued on, calling Punk ‘old and fragile’, and questioned what WWE would do with him.

He said:

“He’s old, he’s fragile, he was never in great shape to begin with, he didn’t start out as an athlete, and now at [44] years old, he’s fragile as hell.

“So what would you do [with him]? Especially in WWE, where the intensity, and the physicality, and the schedule is so much more than it is in AEW, just the sheer workload.”

Finally, Bischoff said that he believes the All Out situation has led to the audiences turning on Punk.

He explained:

“I think the audience has kind of turned on him.

I’m sure he still has some die-hard fans out there and all that, everybody does, but the general audience, I think he left a really bad taste in their mouth, and they realize that that mystique is no longer there, and he’s just another guy. So I don’t see the value. I can’t imagine it.”

Punk made his first appearance since the All Out pay-per-view earlier this week, providing commentary for an MMA show.

quote via Wrestling Inc.

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1 year ago by Connel Rumsey

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