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AEW employee here with some news:
Current plans for this summer are Punk/FTR vs the Young Bucks/Adam Page as the main feud.
Expect in the coming weeks, Page to reunite with the Bucks and for him to become more of an intbetweener type compared to the more villainous Bucks.
The Bucks despises Punk for beating Page, as far as believing that Tony would have stuck with Page as champion if Punk wasn't around. The decision to drop the belt was made early last week, over the explicit protestations of Omega and the Bucks. But two factors pushed Tony over the line for putting the belt on Punk:
1. The new corporate overlords from Discovery want Punk pushed as the face of the company and one of the reasons why they renegged on their promise of pushing AEW hard at the upfronts early this month was due to the fact that they consider Adam Page, Kenny Omega, and the Bucks to be "nobodies" due to them largely only knowing wrestling from WWE.
2. Tony demanded up to date medical reports from Kenny about when he was able to come back. The reports showed he is still nowhere ready to come back to the ring and beat Page for the belt.
Current plans for this summer are Punk/FTR vs the Young Bucks/Adam Page as the main feud.
Expect in the coming weeks, Page to reunite with the Bucks and for him to become more of an intbetweener type compared to the more villainous Bucks.
The Bucks despises Punk for beating Page, as far as believing that Tony would have stuck with Page as champion if Punk wasn't around. The decision to drop the belt was made early last week, over the explicit protestations of Omega and the Bucks. But two factors pushed Tony over the line for putting the belt on Punk:
1. The new corporate overlords from Discovery want Punk pushed as the face of the company and one of the reasons why they renegged on their promise of pushing AEW hard at the upfronts early this month was due to the fact that they consider Adam Page, Kenny Omega, and the Bucks to be "nobodies" due to them largely only knowing wrestling from WWE.
2. Tony demanded up to date medical reports from Kenny about when he was able to come back. The reports showed he is still nowhere ready to come back to the ring and beat Page for the belt.
