CM Punk Says MJF Has Earned His TV Time, Wants To See More Talent Get That Time With AEW Collision

CM Punk says MJF has earned the TV time he receives on AEW television.

Punk has been on hiatus since AEW All Out 2022, where he would tear his triceps and be involved in the AEW All Out Brawl.

Punk is scheduled to return this Saturday as part of AEW Collision. He recently spoke with ESPN and noted that he is looking forward to younger talent getting more TV time.

“With more TV time, you’re only going to see guys like Hobbs and Starks, people who I think have the potential to do what an MJF [current AEW champion] has done with his television time but they haven’t been able to be positioned because a guy like MJF gets a big lion share of television time, because he earned it,” Punk said. “We just need to do a better job of spotlighting so many different guys, and this is, for a lot of guys, sink or swim. Now it’s just like, well, now’s the time. You’re going to have to really bust your ass and prove why we’re giving you this spotlight and this TV time.”

“If I’m the poster boy — top guy, whatever — this is what people dream about,” Punk said. “You get put in a position like this and, you know, can’t take the negative criticism. Personally, I look at it like a challenge. … But as far as ticket sales for a Saturday night compare and contrast, I think it’s a lot easier to move a Saturday night ticket to a live event than it is on a workday, on a Wednesday. So, there’s positives and negatives, you know what I mean? And I don’t look at the negatives as these huge detrimental things.”

CM Punk

Punk will team with FTR to take on Bullet Club Gold and Samoa Joe in trios action on Saturday Night while we will also see the returns of Miro and Andrade.

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