CM Punk took to Twitter to respond to a Wrestling Observer Board post by Dave Meltzer. Punk quickly removed the story after posting it. However, many fans took screenshots and one fan recorded a video to confirm that it was genuine.
Meltzer said, “Do you know why they didn’t advertise Punk vs. Moxley longer and why it had a short build? Because Punk agreed to it, then AEW got a legal letter saying he wasn’t down with it and wasn’t doing it and they didn’t know if he’d come until Tony put his foot down. There are a lot of nice things I can say about him, and you can absolutely argue his position on Moxley was correct, but you can’t argue he willingly did what he was asked in that scenario.”
Punk responded, “SIGH. I wasn’t cleared to come back to wrestle yet. Then plan was to wrestle at the ppv. I sat and listened to moxleys Rocky three idea. I explained how I’d never seen a Rocky movie.l and thought the idea sucked but if the boss wanted to do it whatever. He said he wouldn’t lose to me. I’d never experienced someone refusing to lose to me. I just laughed. I asked Tony if this was what he wanted. He said yes. He’s the boss so I said okay but I’d need to be cleared first. They kept saying it could just be a squash so I didn’t need to be cleared. I scoffed at that. My health is more important. Dave Meltzer is a liar. Jericho is a liar and a stooge. There were plans but plans always change but I’ll never put a company above my health ever again.”
You can check out a screenshot of Meltzer’s and video of Punk’s post below:
He deleted it pretty quickly. Took video just as backup lol pic.twitter.com/pKX06WNiYS
— Danny (@dajosc11) March 23, 2023
