AEW Dynamite Live Coverage (8/17): Danielson And Garcia Collide, Trios Tournament Begins, Ricky Steamboat Appears

CM Punk says he doesn’t have the prettiest smile, he has the prettiest belt. Punk says he wants to issue a challenge, and he calls out Hangman Page for a match, right here, right now. Page doesn’t appear, and he says that isn’t Cowboy Sh*t, it is coward sh*t, and says the apology needs to be as loud as the disrespect. 

He believes everyone wants to be the champion until it is time to do the champ sh*t, and he understands that Jon Moxley has a lot of fans. He can be number one in people’s heart, but he isn’t in the ring as he is ‘the’ AEW Champion. Punk says he has lost big over the years, but Moxley has always been number two as someone has had his number, and Puk says he is the third best guy in his own group, which is a reoccurring theme in his career.

Punk says the only person that has actually broken bones in the past six months is him, and he asks the fans to tell him when he’s telling lines, and he points out Moxley is the Interim champion, which means temporary. He’s willing to test himself against Moxley, and he also claims that Eddie Kingston is the third best Eddie he’s shared the ring with, and the second best Kingston he’s been in a locker room with.

He plans to test his best at All Out against Moxley, and he won’t be the first Jon that he has beaten in Chicago for a championship belt, and he’s not number one in that category either. Moxley then appears and tells people to look out as he’s dropping pipe bombs that his body can’t cash. Moxley claims that Punk isn’t even the best wrestler in catering, and the words he spits don’t mean sh*t, and neither does the belt on his shoulder, he says the same about his belt until he beats Punk and he throws it down.

Moxley claims to be the heart and soul of AEW, and Punk says he will be the dollars and the cents, and Moxley claims Punk only came to AEW as he ran out of money, and Punk ran out of spirit a long time ago. Punk says he will soundly defeat Jon at the PPV and he’s worried Moxley would just bleed all over him here, but then a brawl breaks out as they throw hands until security break them up.

Powerhouse Hobbs is backstage claiming he doesn’t need friends and he isn’t okay with losing like Ricky Starks. He got to parade around and hide behind his back, and he was hired to make sure he stayed champion and Starks couldn’t do it. He claims he breaks necks, and he has something for The Factory too.