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AEW President Tony Khan has addressed a rumor that Colt Cabana was moved to ROH because of heat with CM Punk.
Colt Cabana recently made an AEW in-ring return of sorts during the Gamescom expo in late August. Prior to his matches at the event, he hadn’t wrestled for AEW since the March 4 edition Dark taping.
Cabana notably wrestled at both of the Tony Khan era ROH pay-per-views, defeating Blake Christian at Supercard of Honor in April, and scoring a victory over Anthony Henry at Death Before Dishonor in July.
It had been speculated that Cabana’s move to ROH was due to his fractured relationship with CM Punk.
In an interview with Forbes, Tony Khan shot down this rumor, noting that CM Punk played no part in the decision to have Cabana join ROH.
Khan said:
“There is certainly a perception out there that I don’t think is accurate that when I purchased Ring of Honor and also (as) some of the contracts were coming up and I was starting to make moves—whether it was renewing them in most cases or not renewing them or in some cases reassigning people—there was a misconception that was perpetuated unfairly that CM Punk had anything to do with me wanting to move Colt Cabana to the Ring of Honor roster when his contract came up.
“I will clarify that, just to take it head on, that he (Punk) had nothing to do with any of the contracts I picked up, whether I did or didn’t. But in particular, I did pick up Colt Cabana’s contract and gave him a similar contract to do different work.
“I don’t know if it was fair that that got perpetuated… I also didn’t think that was fair to Punk.
“I’m still having very exciting conversations about the future of Ring of Honor and where it will live, but my goal is to do a weekly Ring of Honor show,” Khan said. “We are for sure 100 percent gonna continue the Ring of Honor franchise.”
CM Punk will challenge for Jon Moxley’s AEW World Championship at All Out on September 4. Check out the announced card for the pay-per-view right here.
Stay up to date with AEW win/loss records for 2022 using our tracker at this link.
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