CM Punk Claims He Wasn't Fully Cleared To Wrestle When He Did The First Match

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In a now-deleted Instagram post, CM Punk criticized Tony Khan, Chris Jericho, and other AEW stars. Earlier today, Dave Meltzer took to the Wrestling Observer message boards, sharing information regarding the booking of CM Punk and Jon Moxley’s match heading into last year’s All Out pay-per-view.

Meltzer noted the following:

Do you know why they didn’t advertise Punk vs. Moxley longer and why it had a short build? Because Punk agreed to it, then AEW got a legal letter saying he wasn’t down with it and wasn’t doing it and they didn’t know if he’d come until Tony put his foot down. There are a lot of nice things I can say about him, and you can absolutely argue his position on Moxley was correct, but you can’t argue he willingly did what he was asked in that scenario.

After Dave Meltzer made a claim on the Wrestling Observer message boards, CM Punk responded by posting on his Instagram stories, in which he criticized the company, Tony Khan, Chris Jericho, and others. However, the post was swiftly deleted.

SIGH. I wasn’t cleared to come back to wrestle yet. Then plan was to wrestle at the ppv. I sat and listened to moxleys Rocky three idea. I explained how I’d never seen a Rocky movie.I and thought the idea sucked but if the boss wanted to do it whatever. He said he wouldn’t lose to me. I’d never experienced someone refusing to lose to me. I just laughed. I asked Tony if this was what he wanted. He said yes. He’s the boss so I said okay but I’d need to be cleared first. They kept saying it could just be a squash se l didn’t need to be cleared. I scoffed at that. My health i more important. Dave Meltzer is a liar. Jericho is a liar and a stooge. There were plans but plans always change but I’ll never put a company above my health ever again.

Later, Chrish Jericho also took to Instagram and shared the following story:

Chris Jericho just posted this after CM Punk’s Instagram post. pic.twitter.com/GC0gBINykP

— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) March 23, 2023

At Double or Nothing last year, CM Punk won the AEW World Championship by defeating Hangman Adam Page. However, he got injured on the following week's episode of Dynamite. Before the All Out pay-per-view, Jon Moxley and CM Punk were slated to have a championship match. Moxley surprisingly defeated Punk in a quick match to become the new champion.

Their final match took place at All Out, where Punk regained the title, but he suffered a triceps injury during the match.

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