CM Punk & Jack Perry have backstage altercation at AEW All In

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This story has been updated.

A backstage incident took place just minutes before the AEW All In main card kicked off. 

As first reported by Fightful and confirmed by our own Bryan Alvarez, Jack Perry and CM Punk were involved in a physical altercation at the event, approximately ten minutes before Punk went out for his match with Samoa Joe. Perry had just wrestled in the final match of the pre-show against Hook. 

During Perry’s match, he said to the camera, “It’s real glass, cry me a river” as he and Hook did some spots involving a car window. The comment was in reference to a confrontation he had with Punk at a Collision taping this summer.

Perry’s comment is said to be what led to the backstage altercation.

Fightful Select reported that one side of the story said Perry confronted Punk backstage leading to a shoving contest between the two followed by Punk putting Perry in a choke. 

PWTorch reported that Punk confronted Perry as he was heading to the entrance for his match against Joe. Punk asked if they had a problem and then pie-faced Perry after exchanging words, restraining him in a face lock and throwing punches before they were separated.

Miro commented on X, formerly Twitter, that the Fightful report was “fake and untrue” but didn’t go into further details:

Confirming an earlier report from PWInsider, Alvarez said that Perry was asked to leave the venue while Punk remained in his dressing room with security present. On Wrestling Observer Radio, Alvarez said that Punk was also eventually asked to leave.

The confrontation the two had this summer was addressed by our own Alvarez earlier this month. 

“Jungle Boy had a vacation planned. He wanted to do a pre-taped angle with a car to write him off TV for that week. Punk told him no. He felt it was too dangerous to do a broken glass spot and said they cared about safety. Jungle was upset about that. That is very different from the story that Jack wanted to do a dangerous spot as a way to avoid having to go to work,” Alvarez wrote.

Perry lost the FTW title to Hook in his match on Zero Hour while Punk retained the “Real World Championship” against Samoa Joe in the first match of the main card.