All Elite Wrestling Thread (It's Wednesday...you know what that means.)

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And some random guy whose real name is Daniel Bryan and he's confused as to why he's on a professional wrestling show.

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And David Flair shows up and says Woooooo!

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Vicious & Delicious AEW reunion confirmed.

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Tony will need to bring back High Voltage as well.

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Thunder Rosa vs Penelope Ford was the highest rated segment on Dynamite. The women are over in AEW.



I wouldn't mind seeing Jay White vs CM Punk.

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Wonder if Roman was watching.

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Well that was awesome. What a pop.

Sting in the rafters with that crowd was great too.

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CM Punk and Tony Khan spoke with the media after First Dance was over:

-CM Punk doesn't want to disclose how long his deal is. "AEW, it feels like everyone shows up to have a good time. You don’t need to know the details of my deal. I’m not here part time."

-Tony Khan agrees & says it isn't short term or part-time

-CM Punk says he's Been talking to Tony Khan for probably a year and a half about this. "Some girls are easy to get into bed; I am not. I need to be wined and dined."

-Punk says the more people Tony employed that he knew, the more he would ask them things about AEW.

-He says he wasn't in a hurry to sign due to the pandemic, and he knew he couldn't debut with out people in the building. Says a lot of happy accidents along the way happened to make this possible.

-Punk is asked about how he's been getting ready for this (and All Out) ... he says he can see the headlines now, but he hasn't been doing dedicated training. He says he trains, but no new tricks. He wants people to see him as the same dude.

-Punk is asked to compare tonight to MITB 2011. He says tonight felt more organic. Everything before this felt like a fight that squeezed the life out of him, but this was a joyful moment. It didn't need too much input, it's pro wrestling and needed to be real.

-CM Punk on why he joined AEW over returning to WWE:

"I knew that if I died or got hurt(in the WWE), no one would care. With AEW, it reminded me of places I used to love, where it's about the spirit of the thing... AEW doesn't feel like a house, it feels like a home."

-CM Punk hasn't seen Dark or Elevation and doesn't really use Youtube. He says he still watches DVDs. He feels like Terry Funk(in ECW) & moving forward he will watch everything.

-Punk says the Darby Allin program came from Tony khan and it started from a tweet Punk put out awhile back. Punk says if he was a teenager again Darby would be his favorite wrestler. Then puts over Britt Baker as being great.

-Punk is asked about the "happy accidents". He says nothing was forced. He says that being here for the first time he observed that "nobody is standing on their own dick" and that when its right it's right. You don't need 16 cooks in the kitchen..

-Punk says that there is a time and place to be deadly serious about this business. Says that the people in charge back here, letting people make their own mistakes and not punish you. He feels nothing but joy backstage in AEW & everyone in the back here wants everyone to succeed.

-CM Punk says AEW didn't have to prove anything to him, it was more about him being open to it. He wanted to dip his toes in with WWE Backstage. He blames Renee Paquette for him returning to wrestling because she encouraged him to do Backstage.

-Tony Khan says that he and CM Punk have been in talks for nearly two years, exchanging ideas, talking about plans, and planning out the First Dance at the United Center in Chicago and Tony would have never brought Punk in without Fans to witness it.

-CM Punk and Tony Khan laughed and said this was the worst kept secret of all time. Punk told his wife, and just told other people he couldn't talk about it.

-CM Punk was not hidden backstage tonight at AEW Rampage. He was backstage socializing with the roster before the show.

-CM Punk said that the roster, and people around AEW not saying anything about Brodie Lee's illness before his passing made a big impression on him.

-CM Punk says he is sure he'll do a bit of everything, like commentary, wrestling, and wants to give back to wrestling. He wasn't in the place to wrestle for the last few years, and wasn't able to give back for years.

-Punk says he's excited to work with Pillman, Will Hobbs, Darby Allin, Jon Moxley, Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and (probably) others who are coming in... there's dream situations that people can be excited about.

-Punk jokes that "he doesn't know who else is coming in". But maybe Tony does, since he's the boss.

-Sting told CM Punk he was excited to work with him, and wished he could have in his prime.

-Louis Dangoor asks about AEW working with IMPACT and NJPW, and asks punk if he is looking to work with other promotions or focus on AEW.

-Punk says if Tony wants him to go do the G1, he will do it. He will do whatever Tony wants. If he wants him to do Impact, or whatever he will. Tony gets pole position. But says he just jumped into the pool. but he is an AEW guy.

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Our boy Bix is on it. Cops some shit.

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She looks like she's been tanning with The Hulkster.

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The YouTube videos are up to 5 million views since going up Saturday morning.

They also put up Punk's entrance video

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