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>"The whole thing that started it was that scrum (The All Out 2022 post event press scrum), I felt very strongly watching that, my take on watching that was he did not respect AEW, and I said it that night"
>Dave says that in AEW, CM Punk felt like he was a bigger star than everyone. And he was the one that was drawing everything. Dave says Punk knows that there will be no tolerance for him screwing up in WWE. And Dave thinks he won't screw up because Punk respects the top WWE guys for "making it in WWE".
>Dave says there are a lot of EX-WWE guys that feel like AEW's top guy's aren't really stars and wouldn't cut it in WWE. Dave says that there have been more people like that, that have joined AEW and have been a very negative to the company. He says there are a few Ex-WWE guys in AEW right now just waiting to go back to WWE. Dave says Punk wasn't like that when he first went to AEW but became like that and that Punk's comments suggest to Dave that Punk didn't rate a lot of AEW's top guys, especially Hangman Page.
>Dave says why would WWE hire CM Punk? He says guys that draw always get chances and says that CM Punk in WWE will hurt AEW and AEW know it. He says that Cody Rhodes making the jump from AEW to WWE hurt AEW and helped WWE, a great deal. He thinks Punk will have a similar effect unless things happen.
>He says that there were signs this month of WWE's ticket sales starting to plateau and even go down slightly in places and having peaked from being on fire for the past 18 months or so and Punk could be a "jump-start" to keep that going. Dave thinks Punk will help business short-term. "Long-term is anyone's guess"
