Tony Khan: Jack Perry remains ‘suspended indefinitely’ from AEW

It’s not clear when Jack Perry could return to AEW. 

Tony Khan confirmed at the All Out media scrum that Perry remains suspended indefinitely from the promotion following an investigation into the backstage altercation he had with CM Punk at All In. 

“He’s been suspended indefinitely,” Khan responded when asked about Perry’s punishment stemming from the incident. 

“I think we’ve suspended everybody in that investigation and then took further action after that based on what happened and came out of the investigation. But as for Jack, we suspended Jack as a participant in an incident backstage and Jack hasn’t been around. That’s all I can say about it but, at the time, we did suspend him and he hasn’t been at AEW since AEW All In backstage in London.” 

The Perry/Punk altercation was addressed in the latest edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The issue contains an account of the incident from an eyewitness described as a neutral party. 

Our own Dave Meltzer wrote:

Another version, and this would be a neutral source who was not a wrestler but was there and witnessed it and his version was that right after Perry came to the back, Punk went nose-to-nose with him aggressively and asked him if he had a problem. That person said Perry said he was just looking to get heat as a heel. Punk shoved him hard, Perry got in his face and in that version Punk sucker punched him and went for a choke.

Perry is an AEW original, having signed with the promotion in January 2019 and debuted at the inaugural show, Double or Nothing on May 25, 2019. That year he was voted “Rookie of the Year” in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards.