10 Wrestlers Who Hate CM Punk’s Guts
3. The Elite
If nothing else, CM Punk knows how to drop a pipe bomb. Whilst the famous 2011 moment is still talked about to the present day as one of the greatest promos in wrestling history, what he said in All Out 2022’s media scrum might be a more literal definition in that it was truly explosive.
Punk believed that The Elite been responsible for leaking misinformation to the dirt sheets. The former AEW Heavyweight Champion referred to them as “children” and, most inflammatory of all, their close friend ‘Hangman’ Adam Page as an “empty headed dumbf***”.
Whilst the specifics aren’t clear, corroborated reports on a backstage fracas and physical altercation that followed really spelled it out. If things had been bad before they had suddenly gotten a lot worse.
It’s one thing to blur the lines of reality and fiction to get your shots in and it’s another to decry someone in an out-of-character interview. It takes a certain level of anger to take things to a physical level though. Whatever happened backstage at All Out, the results speak for themselves with many members of the locker room going home with suspensions.
The Elite, who just that night had won the AEW Trios Championship together, found themselves without the gold that they had reportedly campaigned to be introduced for the longest time.