Professional Wrestling Discussion

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>>cubsfan
>AAA is tomorrow in Juarez. AAA now has the stream start time as 6:45 CT; that’s nearly 2 hours after the poster time (which is listed in Mountain Time.) Maybe keep an eye on Twitch in case it rolls out earllier.

>This is a lineup that is going to change. La Parka was scheduled for the main event. AAA’s policy to never change their posters means he’s still listed for the main event despite suffering injuries which may have ended his career. (Would AAA have changed the poster if Parka passed away?) AAA has locally been advertised a surprise wrestler in Parka’s spot, with no hints at the identity. The rest of the main event has Blue Demon teaming with Averno & Chessman against Pagano & Dr. Wagner & whoever will be their partner in a lumberjack match.

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>Card:

> In the latest example of never say never, C.M. Punk showed up at the end of WWE Backstage on 11/12, and announced he would be starting on the show next week. The news was something of a surprise, even though it was known he had pushed for the spot and had taken a screen test, and at the time it was widely expected he’d be hired. Punk and everyone had gone mum on the subject in recent weeks, although there were people saying he was in.

> Punk will join the regular cast of Renee Young, Booker T, Christian, Paige and Ryan Satin on the show that airs at 11 p.m. Tuesday nights on FS 1. In theory, Punk is with FOX, and not WWE, but the show thus far has been a promotional arm and hardly independent coverage. Punk will appear regularly, but not necessarily on every show. The first episodes of the show were hardly the type of show those involved with the station had promised, with the idea they would surprise people with in-depth and real journalistic coverage.

> Punk himself, when asked if he was on the show in the past, said if he was, he’d call a spade a spade when it came to the product. Even though there were definitely people within WWE negative of the idea of Punk, because of how he left, what he said on the Colt Cabana podcast that led to a lawsuit, the nature of the WWE business is such that if he wanted back, he’d be back. Now was the right timing because he was the last free agent AEW could have signed that may have been a game changer. Still, some expected him to be the exception to the rule with the idea he would be adamant about never going back. But history has shown, whether it’s Bret Hart, Bruno Sammartino, Bill Goldberg, Superstar Billy Graham and just about everyone else who leaves on bad terms, the question is never if but when.

> WWE Backstage in its first week only did 49,000 viewers. Times are competitive and Punk did get offers from AEW, which opened talks with him in 2018, long before anyone knew there was an AEW. When Tony Khan first decided to explore the idea of starting a wrestling company, Punk was one of the first people he contacted. According to those with knowledge of the deal, he was given a money offer and obviously he didn’t accept the offer. He had one personal meeting with Khan and the two had dialogue over time. But it went cold at the time AEW as a promotion became very serious and started having legitimate success, although there was contact as late as June based on what Punk has said. When Punk knocked AEW’s negotiating in a late July interview with Marc Raimondi in Sports illustrated, Cody publicly and others in AEW privately stated said that they believed he was looking at going back to WWE, and he was knocked for having that viewpoint from people who believed that wasn’t possible. Those who spoke with him in August had also said he was looking at trying to get a big offer to go back.

> When Punk was involved in several years of litigation with Dr. Chris Amann, who sued him for slander after remarks he had made on Cabana’s podcast, which cost him more than $1 million, the feeling from some was that this was a level of bad blood that wouldn’t be rectified. During the period he cut off every friendship he had in WWE. He also fell out with Cabana on at least one occasion during litigation, although they behaved like two longtime friends when the trial itself took place. Then, after the trial, Cabana sued him, attempting to get him to pay Cabana’s legal bills as Cabana claimed he had promised to cover all his expenses for getting him into the mess. Punk sued back and eventually both sides withdrew their claims agains…

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