CM Punk was recently announced as a guest at the upcoming Starrcast III, and on SiriusXM’s Busted Open radio, Mark Henry discussed what this could possibly mean for the former WWE superstar. According to Henry, not only could this be a perfect stepping stone for Punk to try and make a comeback to the world of wrestling, but he even thinks that All Elite Wrestling could be a perfect spot.
“The Punk side of this, you know sometimes you get bitter,” Henry said when discussing Punk’s longstanding issue with the world of wrestling. “Have you ever been screwed over? Have you been disrespected and taken for granted? Has anybody ever looked you at you in your face and said ‘Hey this is what’s going to happen,’ and then something completely different happens? That’s what he’s saying happened to him, and maybe we’re giving him too raw a deal. Maybe he needs to be bale to come to grips with it himself before we cast judgement on him for abandoning what we love.”
Henry went on to discuss how he knows that Punk loved wrestling, but that wrestling might not have loved him back. “It’s the lover that cheated on him, it’s the friend that lied and turned they back on him. I mean, this is a big step for him to come back to us. Maybe he’s starting to let it go, maybe he’s dealt with it, I hope so,” he said, before discussing why he thinks All Elite Wrestling could be a perfect fit for Punk.
“I think that [All Elite Wrestling] is tailor-made. It’s like, here you go, you wanted a platform, you wanted an equal footing with the marketing and the management, and the ownership, here’s equal footing. You get to have a conversation, and not only do you have the conversation, if you come up with ideas and stuff, you get credit for those ideas. You get more time, and if you deserve to be in the main event, then you deserve to be in the main event regardless of what else is going on. Sometimes you want to be put first, that’s the way it is in business: when you’re at the top of the game, you want to be put first.”
On the heels of the @CMPunk #StarrcastIII announcement, @davidlagreca1 & @TheMarkHenry discuss if Punk is finally coming around on a return to pro wrestling & why AEW could be a perfect fit ? pic.twitter.com/Oqb25roRev
— SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) July 19, 2019
