AEW's Kenny Omega Comments On CM Punk/Brawl Out, Calls Himself A "Terrible EVP"

With CM Punk now back in the AEW conversation after this past week's Dynamite aired footage of Punk's backstage All In altercation with Jack Perry, AEW EVP Kenny Omega has given his own thoughts on the Chicagoan and shed a little light on the infamous incident between the Elite and the Punker at All Out back in 2022.

Speaking on Twitch (via POST Wrestling), Omega noted how he doesn't think that physicality is necessarily a bad thing between athletes in any sport, and also reiterated how his main focus during that All Out incident was making sure that Larry - CM Punk's dog - was out of harm's way, in addition to calling himself a "terrible EVP".

As the Best Bout Machine noted:

"I don't have power. I haven't had power for more than four years now in that company, and I know that's gonna sound odd because, like, 'Well Kenny, you're on EVP'. I'm nothing. I am nothing, and I'll tell you why, it's because I'm a terrible EVP. I don't deserve to be an EVP. If people wanna ask for my advice, I'll do my best to help them. If there's a fire to put out backstage, I'm gonna do my best to be that person. But if we go back, and I don't want to comment on it, but I'll do it, just because it adds context. I thought my duty as an EVP during Brawl Out would be to enter the situation while there was chaos, deescalate it, and create a peaceful environment for everyone. I was able to create a peaceful environment for the most important person in that altercation, and that was Larry. And I swear to God, honestly, that was my biggest... and that sounds funny, but I look at animals and our pets as people, and Dobby [Omega's cat] of course, one of the most important people in my life. So, to get little Larry out of there was the most important thing to me, and that was a success."

Omega added:

"Unfortunately, try as I may, things were too chaotic for me to be able to do anything on my own power. I believe it was in that instance when I realised that the way I wanted to go about things wasn't necessarily the way that other people wanted to, was also the way that other people necessarily didn't want to, and then it was also maybe not the way that the boss wanted to care of it, and I also thought of myself as a liability, because I am, I don't wanna say old school. I'm not old school, I just played a lot of contact sports and I've gotten into jiu-jitsu and boxing and mixed martial arts. I just know that, sometimes, when you perform or when you fight, when everything's on the line, when you give your heart, when you give your soul towards something and you're in that moment of high stress or high anxiety when you've maybe emptied the tank and you're just physically exhausted. But when you're in an environment like that, sometimes emotions get the best of you and people will wanna throw hands, and I am unfortunately, or fortunately, a believer of it. I think if it's decided, 'Hey, this is the best way to solve things' and you can shake hands after and move on after, I'm actually a believer of fighting. I am, and that sounds terrible to say, which is why, like, don't make me an EVP in 2024. We can't do that stuff anymore. I just feel that, sometimes, that's how you have to settle things. Sometimes, and I don't mean you have to settle it and it has to be shown on-screen to everyone or people have to brag online about who won, who lost. No, it's not for that purpose. It's for the purpose of just getting that stuff out that you need to get out, and I'll admit, there were a number of times, even now with me, where I thought that that might have been the most appropriate answer. It never came to that. We were able to talk things out and we became better friends, and there was a level of respect at that point on between myself and these other parties, and I'll maybe I'll share these stories later. It's crazy. As much as I'll believe in cooler heads prevailing, sitting down and talking, sometimes there's just like, 'Hey, I can't even think straight until I start throwing some hay', you know? Or maybe that I need to be smacked on a little bit."

On his relationship with CM Punk, Kenny said there are no issues between the pair and that they reached out to each other in the aftermath of All Out 2022.

"Status with Punk right now? Um, I don't know. It's just mutual respect. We reached out to each other. I can't really think of anyone that I dislike or have an issue with, especially an issue with wrestling. It's not like, 'Hey, we're good now'. It's, 'We were never bad'. Honestly, if it werent' for a complete other factor, we would have been able to have that talk on the night of Brawl Out. There's no issue between him and I, as far as I know."

Kenny Omega is currently out of action due to diverticulitis, and he revealed on this stream that he's been using the LifeMid clinic in Baltimore for help with this matter. It's not known how long the former AEW World Champion will be on the sidelines, but he's currently on the shelf indefinitely.