Tony Khan On If CM Punk Asked For Colt Cabana To Be Out Of The AEW Locker Room: No, He Never Asked For That

The rumors have been debunked.

There’s been a lot of talk since CM Punk has left AEW following his suspension and Colt Cabana suddenly showed back up on TV, if Punk was the catalyst to keep Colt off AEW. During the Full Gear post show media scrum, Tony Khan was asked if it was true that CM Punk asked for Colt to be sent to ROH and out of the AEW locker room, to which Tony says it is not true and also just felt like Colt was a logical opponent for Jericho in Baltimore.

No, no, he never asked for that. I, you know, the first time it came up, I think you asked me that on a scrum call and I wasn’t looking at you face to face and I really, you know, it was before Death Before Dishonor, I think. He never asked me that, and it was, I could’ve probably addressed it then and i just didn’t comment on it because I wanted to keep talking about the wrestling that was on the show because Colt Cabana was wrestling on the show and so, you weren’t asking me specifically about the show, so I didn’t answer that there. But, I, you know, no, then, as far as the match with Chris in Baltimore, I thought it made a lot of sense because we had the Ring Of Honor championship series and we had talked about Chris Jericho wrestling so many of the great names in Ring Of Honor and so, you know, when you talk about like great people who’ve held championships in Ring Of Honor, we brought in Bandido, Dalton Castle, a lot of great people. Tomohiro Ishii’s a great former Ring Of Honor World TV Champion, who I think, is a match like I was saying, I’m really excited for with Jericho, I think that could be a match, a Tokyo Dome caliber match, and when we’ve been booking the shows, I’ve been using Colt Cabana both as a coach and a wrestler in Ring Of Honor, so, I looked at the Ring Of Honor roster and Colt Cabana’s a very logical challenger because not only has he held the world tag team championships, but he’s also somebody who’s been wrestling in kind of the new Ring Of Honor, the 2022 Ring Of Honor, he’s undefeated, and has won both of his matches, so I thought he’d be a very logical challenger for Chris and it’s also a good match. […] Yes, but he was wrestling in Ring Of Honor and then he wrestled for the Ring Of Honor Championship, so if you look at the booking of it, it’s like, he’s 2-0 in Ring Of Honor and he’s wrestling Chris Jericho who is the Ring Of Honor Champion and like, when Colt Cabana has won at both Supercard Of Honor and Death Before Dishonor, and that’s what I’ve been using him in, is Ring Of Honor, and he’s a former Ring Of Honor Champion, he’s a really logical person to challenge Chris. Plus, he’s a very compelling babyface and somebody the crowd gets behind, he’s a really great wrestler, and so I thought it’d be a really good match and I think it was a really good match. 

– Tony Khan

Well, there we have it folks. 

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