Dax Harwood: CM Punk ‘misses wrestling,’ wants to come back to AEW

  • Ian Carey
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According to Dax Harwood, CM Punk misses wrestling and wants to return.  

Harwood spoke about Punk during an episode of his podcast released on Wednesday. He also expanded on his previously released comments regarding Punk & FTR vs. The Elite as a potential main event for All In at Wembley Stadium.

Harwood said: 

The reason I’m fantasy booking [The Elite vs. CM Punk & FTR] is because outside of Roman Reigns, and please correct me if I’m wrong, outside of Roman Reigns and maybe – this is not including like Brock Lesnar or Logan Paul or whatever – but outside of Roman Reigns and maybe Cody Rhodes, the biggest name in professional wrestling right now is CM Punk, right? Definitely the biggest name in AEW. 

So, if we want to take AEW to the next level, if we’re here to work for AEW, if we’re here to make professional wrestling better because of AEW, the way you do that is you take the biggest star that you have and one of the biggest stars in the world and you put them on the card and you make money with them. 

On top of that, I will say that I talk to Punk almost every day and Punk misses wrestling, that’s your headline: Punk misses wrestling and Punk wants to come back and he wants to give back to the fans, he wants to give back to wrestling. So, I’ll leave it at that. 

Last month, our own Dave Meltzer reported that a reconciliation plan had been agreed upon to bring Punk back to AEW once he is medically cleared. However, the status of Punk’s potential return may have been impacted by comments he posted to Instagram that were critical of Chris Jericho, Tony Khan, Meltzer, and his program with Jon Moxley. 

Meltzer wrote that Punk’s return “was going to happen and then this happened and it still may end up happening.” He also noted that the decision to bring Punk back was made by Tony Khan. 

Meltzer wrote:

The situation with C.M. Punk became a bigger story this week when he put up an instagram post where he went off on Tony Khan, Jon Moxley, myself and Chris Jericho, which he immediately took down. This came while sides were working on a reconciliation that was at least in principle agreed to, per the decision of Khan who wanted him back. 

Meltzer continued:

Where things stand at this moment are unknown. There are tons of complicated issues involved and differences of opinions on the subject. But it was going to happen and then this happened and it still may end up happening.