CM Punk Goes Off On Young Bucks, Colt Cabana In Ugly, Profanity Laced Shoot

CM Punk lashes out at AEW All Out 2022 Media Scrum.

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“I work with a bunch of f—king children,” lamented CM Punk toward the end of a fiery rant at the AEW All Out Media Scrum. Punk had spent several minutes lashing out against AEW Executive Vice Presidents The Young Bucks, Hangman Adam Page, Colt Cabana and everything in between. If CM Punk’s famed worked-shoot promo from 2011 was a pipe bomb, Punk’s media scrum tirade was a Tsar Bomba.

Needless to say, there is already massive heat against Punk for his comments.

CM Punk went off in a profanity laced tirade during the AEW All Out Media scrum just moments after regaining the AEW World Championship. After fielding a question from Nick Hausman of Wrestling Inc., Punk launched into a tirade against the wrestling media, and Colt Cabana himself, whom he referred to by his real name of Scott Colton. Punk has been at the center of backstage drama in AEW, as many perceived that he worked behind the scenes to get Colt Cabana fired from AEW. AEW President Tony Khan denied these rumors.

“I haven’t had anything to do with Scott Colton in almost a decade, probably wanted nothing to do with him longer than that,” began Punk.

“Why I’m a grown-ass adult man, and I decide not to be friends with somebody is nobody else’s f—king business. But, my friends—if I fall backwards—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—k it is.”

CM Punk Tears into Colt Cabana At AEW Media Scrum

“My relationship with Scott Colton ended long before I paid all of his bills,” said Punk about Cabana.

“I have every receipt. I have every invoice. I have every email. I have an 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 it is because when I finally had to counter-sue him through Discovery, he shared a bank account with his mother. That’s a fact. And as soon as we discovered that fact and we subpoenaed old Marcia [Colt Cabana’s mother], he sent the email ‘oh can we please drop all this.’”

“It’s 2022, I haven’t been friends with this guy since at least 2014, late 2013. And the fact that I have to sit up here—because we have irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs, and couldn’t f—king manage a Target TGT ; and they spread lies and bullshit, and put into a media that I got somebody fired when I have f—k all to do with him. Want nothing to do with him. Do not 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—king embarrassing. And if y’all are at fault, f—k you, if you’re not, I apologize.”

Punk shifted crosshairs to and from Colt Cabana throughout his appearance. Punk later claimed he went as far as to offer Colt Cabana money, but Cabana turned it down. As Punk tensely scarfed down pastries from Mindy’s Bakery in Chicago, Punk continued to twist the knife into his soured friendship with Cabana.

“He shares a bank account with his mother, that tells you all you need to know about what kind of character that is.”

“Name two people that have made the most money off the name CM Punk. [To Tony Khan] I don’t think you’re there, yet,” Punk began his parting shot to Colt Cabana.

“The first one’s Vince McMahon, the second one’s Scott Colton.”

CM Punk Shoots Hard On Hangman Adam Page

CM Punk’s issues with Hangman Adam Page are far from over as the new AEW world champion went nuclear on Page’s past comments about him and “not needing advice.”

“What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed, f—king dumb f—k like Hangman Adam Page to go out on national television, and f—king go into business for himself? For what? What did I do?”

AEW President Tony Khan—who recently had a backstage talent meeting designed to prevent this exact scenario—was powerless to stop CM Punk’s locker-room-destroying scud missiles. As Khan haplessly tried to apologize for not declining comment, Punk cut him off and continued to eviscerate his AEW opps.

“I’m trying to run a f—king business,” Punk continued.

“And when somebody who has never done a damn thing in this business jeopardizes the first million-dollar house that this company has ever drawn, off of my back, and goes on national television and does that, it’s a disgrace to this industry, it’s a disgrace to this company.”

Punk was referring to Hangman Adam Page’s off-script comments, in an in-ring promo with Punk during the May 26, 2022 broadcast of AEW Dynamite. Page hit close to home when he said he wanted to defend AEW from CM Punk. Punk responded, inkind, with a shoot promo of his own in his return on August 17.

“Now, we’re far beyond apologies,” said Punk.

“I gave him a f—king chance, it did not get handled and you saw what I had to do, which is very regrettable, lowering myself to his f–king level. But that’s where we’re at right now, and I’ll still walk up and down this hallway and say ‘if you have a f—king problem with me, take it up with me. Let’s f—king go.’”

“I’m hurt, and I’m old and I’m f—king tired, and I work with f—king children,” said Punk.

CM Punk’s NSFW AEW All Out Media Scrum Interview

As tensions continued to rise, CM Punk appeared visibly frustrated with the notion of MJF’s babyface reactions in Chicago. As Tony Khan tried to veer the ship back toward kayfabe—promoting an MJF vs. CM Punk feud—Punk steered the ship right back off course and back into a shoot.

“I’ll tell you why I’m upset about it. Is because if you’re an EVP, you don’t try to middle your top babyface,” said CM Punk.

“Try to get your niche audience that’s on the internet to hate him over some made up bullshit rumor. It really pisses me off. Stepping on your own dick. Trying to f—king make money, sell tickets and fill arenas. And these stupid guys think they’re into receipting.”

Punk appeared to suggest he was getting such split reactions in his hometown because of an apparent smear campaign against him from The Young Bucks. One done to defend their friend Colt Cabana.

Punk insisted he was defending himself, rather than going into business for himself, during his aforementioned shoot promo against Adam Page.

“Our locker room, for all the wisdom and brilliance it has, isn’t worth shit when you have an empty-headed idiot, whose never done anything in the business do public interviews and say ‘I don’t really take advice,’” Punk continued.

“Who the f—k do you think you are? That’s stupid. I’m on a team with Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and I’m not going to work on my swing…f—king go f—k yourself.”

“There’s just so much drama and turmoil going on,” said an exasperated—and possibly self-unaware—CM Punk said as he finally began to wind down. Punk admitted he was “tired of wrestling these pricks” who “think they know everything.” But he’ll begrudgingly continue to do as he’s told.

“I’m not the boss,” said a passive-aggressive Phil Brooks.

As Tony Khan sat silently, just a few feet away, it’s fair to question just who is the boss of this company. AEW is violently close to the inmates running the asylum, if that hasn’t happened already, as Tony Khan’s locker room continues its downward spiral into descent.