10 Times Wrestling Ruined What You Loved
2. CM Punk & Colt Cabana Friendship
When CM Punk landed in All Elite Wrestling (and indeed returned to wrestling full stop) in July 2021, there were eyebrows raised and whispered questions about exactly how things would go between 'The Voice Of The Voiceless' and colleague/peer/former lifelong friend Colt Cabana.
Eyebrows and questions remain respectively raised and whispered to this day.
At last report, Cabana was quietly moved to Tony Khan's new Ring Of Honor project, presumably lifting him from many of the locker rooms he would have otherwise shared with the 'Voice Of The Voiceless'. How they'd interacted in the prior months remained mostly unreported, but the mere fact this all still feels slightly shadowy is saddening enough.
Once thick as thieves, the two were bound together in a court of law when WWE came for Punk's ultra-controversial Art Of Wrestling podcast exit interview. A series of devastating misunderstandings over finances after the case followed, and the friendship that once seemed bulletproof was left in a (potentially permanent) ruinous state.