>>16272482>>16272218Let's study cagematch. Same month as Punk's debut match at All Out we get CM Punk & Colt Cabana on the same episode of Dynamite #104 (it was rare for Colt to appear on Dynamite by this point, but it was a 16 man Dark Order tag)
https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=257337So we know they were both in the arena for this show. I'm not even going to look at all the Darks Colt was on during this time but I'm absolutely sure some of them took place before/after episodes of Dynamite and Rampage that Punk appeared on because he was all over AEW TV during this time. Let's just stick to AEW TV shows they both appeared on. Next one is October, Dynamite #108. Colt in another Dark Order cluster, Phil has that weird ass match vs Bobby Fish. Both on the same show, both backstage during the same two hour window.
https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=306029Next is Thanksgiving Eve, Dynamite #112 in Chicago. Colt in a rare singles match vs D-Bry, Punk vs QT. (Holy fuck how did we never get Punk vs Bryan? Tony is deranged)
https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=323626So it's already been 3 months and they're still appearing on the same TV show together. From here Colt continues wrestling on Dark throughout December, then disappears from AEW January and February. March 3 2022 he's back regularly jobbing on Dark, makes his "tv return" on the April Fools Day ROH Supercard of Honor Zero Hour preshow.
[Hangman "worker's rights" promo is a couple weeks later]
Colt does another ROH Zero Hour show that summer along with 3 straight days on a Fight Forever tour of Germany, but other than that he's only appearing for other indie feds until November when he's back on Dynamite in a match vs Jericho for the ROH title. This was while Punk was still suspended from Brawl Out. I don't believe he's been on real AEW TV since.
So when was he supposedly banned from arenas? Early 2022? How do we know he wasn't still producing? Are you basing this claim entirely on a BTE storyline?
