CM Punk, Jon Moxley To Unify AEW World Titles NEXT WEEK

Why wait until All Out? Champs brawl throughout Dynamite, prompting match change.

by Scott Carlson
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Fans won't have to wait until September or shell out money to watch CM Punk and Jon Moxley battle to unify the AEW World Championship and Interim AEW World Championship, respectively.

Barring some bait and switch, the two champs will clash on next week's AEW Dynamite to unify their titles rather than at the All Out PPV next month.

This comes on the heels of a Dynamite that saw Punk open the show by repeatedly chopping down Moxley, calling him the third-best member of his group (Blackpool Combat Club), which he said is a recurring theme in his career. He continued to take shots at the interim champ, saying he wouldn't even be the best Jo(h)n he ever beat in Chicago (site of All Out) for a world title.

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That drew Moxley out for some verbal back-and-forth that quickly gave way to a pull-apart brawl. But things didn't end there. Later, as Tony Nese was making his way out for a match, Mox jumped him, and called out Punk, begging for him to do the title unification match right then and there.

Punk last wrestled on the 1 June edition of Dynamite before a broken foot took him out of action. This prompted a tournament to crown the interim world champ at the Forbidden Door PPV, which Moxley won. Punk hasn't even had a title defense, while Mox has defended his title three times in the past six weeks.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.