>>14161194It does make them look stupid and since he basically put out the word that he wanted to try to make it work (even though we all know it's bullshit and he only said that because he knew 100% they wouldn't want to work with him) he already set the narrative for it. Basically he got ahead of everyone. And considering how this makes them look, people are only going to embrace it more that Punk wanted to work with them, they chose not to do it.
Meltzer was already coping about how public opinion dictated things. And how this wouldn't happen 20 years ago (Forgetting that Vince did this to Bret and eventually convinced people that Bret was being selfish, even though it was Shawn that instigated the entire thing)
>>14162315He admitted what I always believed, that he didn't want to be there after Brawl Out. I even said Collision was just him half-ass booking to show HHH and shit that he can do NXT if they need him to. I think he would've gotten himself fired at some point anyway.