6 Candidates To Improve AEW's Commentary

Not the headline you expect if you read CM Punk joins AEW. But after Punk has vehemently denied ever coming back to a wrestling ring, fans may have to just accept this as the best case scenario. Remember that Stone Cold retired at 38 and he has an untarnished legacy as a true bad ass. The parallels run deep here with Punk hanging up his boots at 35. After all, Punk did drop the pipe bomb in a Stone Cold t-shirt.

Austin had many roles after his retirement, appearing sporadically over the years but never anything consistent. If AEW could deliver Punk on a weekly television program to their audience that’d be a significant upgrade. That name alone, just like Austin’s, can put a lot of asses in seats. And Punk has already started doing MMA commentary to a positive reception so far. Why not come back to his roots?

The story is a Hollywood blockbuster in the making. The man who helped to build (and simultaneously was built by) the independent wrestling scene was scorned by trying to join the massive, villainous conglomerate that is WWE. Now he returns to a shining beacon of hope rising from the indies, one which is trying to tear them to the ground. But now his fight is no longer in the ring because he has nothing left to prove. CM Punk is in AEW to be the Voice for the Voiceless.