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>Up until about a week ago, Punk was indeed scheduled to win the Rumble. However, Punk was fighting for Cody to win it instead, saying that Cody deserved the rub he’d get from eliminating Punk.
>Once the change was made Cody was extremely grateful to Punk and basically broke down in tears. Everyone in the locker room then heard about this from Cody, who kept saying Punk was a generous guy who “got a shitty deal in AEW”
>Cody’s gang-like hand sign at the end of the Rumble was unscripted, however, and was not cleared by Punk’s camp. A lot of people backstage were very disappointed in it, arguing that it brought up a lot of bad blood that should be forgotten. Cody, either through ignorance or malice, kind of spit in the face of Punk with that and has a lot of heat backstage.
