CM Punk Rants About Colt Cabana, Hangman Page and AEW “EVPs” at AEW Media Scrum

CM Punk was part of a colorful AEW press conference after All Out tonight, with the new World Champ taking shots at Colt Cabana, Hangman Page and AEW “EVPs,” apparently referring to Executive Vice Presidents The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega.

Punk’s comments start right off the bat at around 12:15 of the video below:

Punk began by ranting about his issues with Colt Cabana and the rumor that Cabana was taken off of AEW TV and moved to ROH because of lingering issues between him and Punk.

If you fancy yourself a journalist, even if it’s for the silly world of professional wrestling, and you have journalist integrity, people who report things, mostly that are bullshit and slanderous lies against myself… I haven’t had anything to do with Scott Colton (Colt Cabana) in almost a decade. Probably wanted nothing to do with him even longer than that. It’s fucking unfortunate that I have to come up here and on this when I’m on my time and this is a fucking business. Why I’m a grown ass adult man and I decide not to be friends with somebody is nobody else’s fucking business. But my friends, if I fall backwards, will catch me. Scott Colton, I felt, never would have. My problem was I wanted to bring a guy with me to the top that did not want to see me at the top, okay? You can call it jealousy, you can call it envy, whatever the fuck it is.

My relationship with Scott Colton ended long before I paid all of his bills. I have every receipt. I have every invoice. I have every email. I have the email where he says, and I quote, ‘I agree to go our separate ways. I will get my own lawyer and you do not have to pay anymore.’ That’s an email that I have. The only reason the public did not see is because when I finally had to countersue him, through discovery we discovered he shared a bank account with his mother. That’s a fact. And as soon as we discovered that fact and we subpoenaed old Marcia, he sent the email, ‘Oh, can we please drop all this?’

He then went off on “irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs and couldn’t fucking manage a Target” and Hangman Page, who he called an “empty-headed fucking dumb fuck.”

Now, it’s 2022. I haven’t been friends with this guy since at least 2014, late 2013. And the fact that I have to sit up here because we have irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs and couldn’t fucking manage a Target and they spread lies and bullshit and put into the media that I got somebody fired when I have fuck all to do with him, want nothing to do with him, do not care where he works, where he doesn’t work, where he eats, where he sleeps. And the fact that I have to get up here and do this in 2022 is fucking embarrassing. And if y’all are at fault, fuck you. If you’re not, I apologize.

But what did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed fucking dumb fuck like Hangman Adam Page to go out on national television and fucking go into business for himself? For what? What did I do? What did I ever do? Didn’t do a Goddamn thing.

There’s people who call themselves EVPs that should have fucking known better. This shit was none of their business. I understand sticking up for your fucking friends. I fucking get it. I stuck up for that guy more than anybody. Okay? I paid his bills until I didn’t and it was my decision not to.

I’m trying to run a fucking business. And when somebody who hasn’t done a damn thing in this business jeopardizes the first million dollar house that this company has ever drawn off of my back and goes on national television and does that, it’s a disgrace to this industry, it’s a disgrace to this company. Now, we’re far beyond apologies. I gave him a fucking chance, it did not get handled, and you saw what I had to do, which is very regrettable, lowering myself to his fucking level. But that’s where we’re at right now. And I will still walk up and down this hallway and say, ‘If you have a fucking problem with me, take it up with me.’ Let’s fucking go.

Sorry to keep bringing this fucking up, but I had never spoken a word in I don’t know how long, so I’m a little fucking pissed off about it. When it came down that [Cabana] was going to sue me, I asked to talk to him. He refused. I asked for mediation, it was denied. I offered him money, he said it was not enough. He went ahead with the lawsuit and sued. It’s his fucking funeral, I don’t care. He shares a bank account with his mother. That tells you all you need to know about what kind of character that is.

I’m sorry, I’m hurt and I’m old and I’m fucking tired, and I work with fucking children.

I’ll tell you why I’m upset about it. Because if you’re an EVP, you don’t try to middle your top babyface. Try to get your niche audience that’s on the internet to hate him for some made-up, bullshit rumor. Really pisses me off. Stepping on your own dick. Trying to fucking make money, sell tickets, fill arenas, and these stupid guys think they’re in Reseda.

We have a locker room full of pretty brilliant minds. But our locker room, for all the wisdom and brilliance it has, isn’t worth shit when you have an empty-headed idiot, who has never done anything in the business, do public interviews and say, ‘I don’t really take advice.’ Who the fuck do you think you are? That’s stupid. ‘I’m on a team with Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and I don’t need to work on my swing. I’m not gonna listen to these guys tell me how to swing a baseball [bat].’ Fucking go fuck yourself. That’s how I feel about it. I dare you to fucking say that to Terry Funk’s face. ‘I don’t need to listen to you, Mr. Funk, I know what I’m doing.’ Fucking grow up.

Punk was also asked about MJF:

I don’t know, I’m tired of wrestling these pricks. I’m tired of wrestling these kids that think they know everything. But I’m not the boss. I think Max is a supremely talented individual, but this goes for him and everybody else in the locker room that doesn’t wanna be here. The grass is not greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it. And Max likes to shit where he eats instead of watering the grass, so we’ll have to see how that goes.

Backstage Heat on CM Punk

According to Fightful Select, there was an “incredible amount of heat” on Punk after his comments at the media scrum.

Talent reportedly told Fightful that Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks were “extremely pissed off” and one person claimed that they were “threatening to walk over the comments.”

Omega and the Bucks were originally scheduled to appear at the media scrum, but they didn’t end up on it.

Fightful says that they have also heard of “several talents” who are “very upset” at his comments.

It’s possible that this is a work, but Fightful says that all talent contacted were under the impression that it was real. The issues between Punk and Cabana and between Punk and Hangman Page are reportedly real.