10 Wrestling Photos Taken Moments Before Disaster
9. CM Punk Fumes At AEW All Out 2022
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People are natural storytellers and are invested, often more than they should be, in gossip and drama and secrets.
It is thus very easy to attach a certain significance to this picture of CM Punk, taken in the moments before his All Out main event against Jon Moxley. It isn't, in any way, a happy or even fired-up expression. He looks, at a minimum, very pensive - but then, the storyline dictated such an expression. He had doubted his ability to come back better from injury on the go-home Dynamite, and was only forcibly shaken from this state of self-doubt by friend and AEW producer Ace Steel. Perhaps he was simply selling the idea that he wasn't so sure of himself after all.
Then again, he was in a foul mood for weeks prior to this. The resulting Brawl Out debacle made sense of his behaviour in retrospect.
Calling out Hangman Page; going incredibly far in the role of tweener in venomous exchanges with Jon Moxley; fat-shaming a Chicagoan heckler: Punk wasn't happy, and, in what very much scanned as a premeditated grandstanding rant, he let the world know in the press conference that changed the wrestling world.