All Out was a very eventful pay-per-view with MJF returning as The Joker to set up a future match with CM Punk. However, the most newsworthy item came in the post-show media scrum when Punk would go off on Colt Cabana, The Young Bucks, and Adam Page. A complete transcription can be read below and seemingly blends between a shoot and work with Punk talking about his falling out with Cabana, saying the Young Bucks couldn’t manage a Target, and Adam Page is empty-headed.
I haven’t had anything to do with Scott Colton in almost a decade. Probably wanted nothing to do with him even longer than that. It’s f*cking unfortunate that I have to come up here and speak on this when I’m on my time, and this is a f*cking business. Why I’m a grown ass adult man and I decide not to be friends with somebody is nobody else’s f*cking business. But my friends, if I fall backward, will catch me. Scott Colton, I felt, never would have.
My problem was I wanted to bring a guy with me to the top that did not want to see me at the top, okay? You call it jealousy, you call it envy, whatever the f*ck it is. My relationship with Scott Colton ended long before I paid all of his bills. I have every receipt. I have every invoice. I have every email. I have the email where he says — and I quote, ‘I agree to go our separate ways, I will get my own lawyer, and you do not have to pay anymore.’ That’s an email that I have. And the only reason the public did not see is because when I finally had to countersue him, through discovery, we discovered he shared a bank account with his mother. That’s a fact. And as soon as we discovered that fact and we subpoenaed ol’ Marcia, he sent the email, “Oh, can we please drop all this?”
Now, it’s 2022. I haven’t been friends with this guy since at least 2014, late 2013. The fact that I have to sit up here because we have irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs and couldn’t f*cking manage a Target, and they spread lies and bullsh*t and put into the media that I got somebody fired when I have f*ck all to do with him, want nothing to do with him, do care where he works, where he doesn’t work, where he eats, where he sleeps. And the fact that I have to get up here and do this in 2022 is f*cking embarrassing. And if y’all are at fault, f*ck you. If you’re not, I apologize.
What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed f*cking dumb f*ck like Hangman Adam Page to go out on national television and f*cking go into business for himself? For what? What did I do? What did I ever do? Didn’t do a goddamn thing. It’s not [Tony Khan’s] position to make it very f*cking clear. There’s people who call themselves EVPs that should have f*cking known better. This sh*t was none of their business. I understand sticking up for your f*cking friends, I f*cking get it, I stuck up for that guy more than anybody. Okay? I paid his bills until I didn’t, and it was my decision not to.
CM PunkBased on the video, it came across as a worked shoot, which AEW has shown he is happy to engage in, as it seems doubtful Khan would just watch on as Punk buried the men he launched the company with in front of him. In fact, it felt like the seeds were being set for a Punk heel turn, although that may simply be his abrasive personality coming through. Ultimately though, things are incredibly interesting in AEW, and they are offering something for both fans of the in-ring product and backstage drama.
