25 Great Wrestlers That EVERYBODY Turned Against
3. CM Punk
To be CM Punk is to be under constant attack.
Not really of course, but that meek sentiment paraphrases what Tony Khan thought was going on back in December 2023 when he found critics getting a lot more negative towards his product a year and a half on from the infamous events of "Brawl Out". Punk's raging fury over what he felt was systemic mismanagement of various situations by the likes of The Young Bucks and Hangman Page - and how he articulated that - ripped at something core to All Elite Wrestling's early success, and just about permanently ripped up his relationship with the most ardent of AEW fanbase, or at very least those that preferred AEW's brand of mainstream professional wrestling.
Upon his return to WWE in November, the ones that still enjoyed his sardonic performances during his final few months with the group saw that as the the point of no return.
All very reasonable; Punk is a passionate and enormously convincing orator. It does and always has made him one of the most captivating wrestlers ever. He talks a lot, speaks with conviction, then changes his mind or his motives or even his actual words, and that process bruises and/or breaks relationships along the way. He gains many, he loses many, the cycle repeats.