AEW personality Mark Henry was asked on Busted Open Radio if the AEW locker room is better with CM Punk beinga part of it, and here is what Henry had to say in response to the question:
“I think that AEW is pro-AEW. CM Punk was an outsider, just like I am. I’m not an original. And when the shit hits the fan, you’re going to go with the people that you locked arms with in the beginning. That’s just the way it is.”
“I’m talking about the core as well as everybody that was at AEW at the beginning. All of the people that work their way, you look at the Dark Order and every facet of AEW in the office, they were a tight-knit group. It’s great to be brought in, but ultimately we still are the second cousin,” Henry continued. “I feel like CM Punk would have to come in and kind of acquiesce to that. Say, ‘you know what, I know who I am. I know what I am, and I’m going to play my lane. But I’m here to make the business better. I’m here to make AEW better and I think I can do that.’ My personal thoughts and complaints, I’m keeping to myself.”
Henry was also asked if CM Punk should be brought back to AEW. He responded, “If I was in charge, I would bring him back and I would bring him back with him saying to the wrestling world, not an apology, but just state the facts. ‘Grown men will disagree and things will be said that probably shouldn’t have been said and I regret airing my dirty laundry in front of the world. It won’t happen again. Do we agree on everything? No. Can we work together and exist and have a business relationship? Yes. I will not let my personal feelings, my personal gripes, and concerns interfere with business again, because ultimately, the important thing is business and I am the business and business is good. AEW is better with me around.’”
Henry talked about why Punk should be brought back, “When they were going through the NXT-AEW wars, those were the people that were foundationally that company. I can see them siding with the top guys in there. They look at it as those are our guys. Everybody else that came in is great acquisitions to help the business go forward, but like you said, Jade Cargill, Will Hobbs, and FTR and certain people were like, ‘Man, I don’t give a sh*t what Punk did. I think he’s good for business. He helped me. He mentored me It’s good for business, but as you said, there are people that weren’t raised in a regime in the way that we were raised. So they’re going to have a clicky, our guy mentality, rather than listen, ‘What does Tony want? What’s good for business? What’s going to make dollars? What’s going to put asses in seats?’ That’s the ultimate thing.”
You can check out a clip from the show below:
Mark Henry discusses people like him, and CM Punk being treated as “outsiders” by the AEW locker room.
by u/ThrowRAdadproblems8 in SquaredCircle
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
