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Author Explains Why His New AEW Book Skips CM Punk’s Controversial Exit

Author Explains Why His New AEW Book Skips CM Punk’s Controversial Exit
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AEW recently released a new book titled “This Book Is All Elite: The Inside Story of All Elite Wrestling,” which saw author Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicling AEW’s first five years. Yet while the book has received rave reviews, the omission of CM Punk’s AEW exit has led many fans to express disappointment and frustration. And now, in an interview with Features Of Wrestling, Greenberg has explained that he deliberately omitted CM Punk’s firing, deeming it unfit for a “tribute” to the promotion’s triumphs, and likened it to skipping the Bernie Madoff scandals in a Mets homage.

“So one of the criticisms I telegraphed in advance, and I even discussed this with AEW, was the people were going to be unhappy that I don’t talk about whatever chicanery occurred backstage that led to the departure of CM Punk … This is a tribute book. If I wrote a book about the New York Mets, which is my favorite baseball team, I even have a Mr. Met tattoo. I would talk about the two World Series runs. I would talk about their marquee players, but I wouldn’t talk about the fact that the owners at the time were supposedly investors with Bernie Madoff.”Keith Elliot Greenberg

When CM Punk first joined AEW, many thought it was a match made in heaven. However, his run imploded amid explosive backstage drama, with the final straw for Tony Khan being the now-infamous backstage altercation between Punk and Jack Perry at All In. This, therefore, led Khan to make the difficult decision to fire someone, believed to be one of his wrestling heroes, and opened the door for a shock return to WWE just three months later.

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