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CM Punk, Jack Perry All In Backstage Fight Video Aired by Young Bucks on AEW Dynamite

Timothy Rapp

The Young Bucks aired footage of the backstage altercation between CM Punk and Jack Perry during September's All In pay-per-view on Wednesday's AEW Dynamite.

The footage, which showed Punk shoving Perry, led to the former being fired from the company with cause.

"Following the investigation, the AEW Discipline Committee met and later convened with outside legal counsel before making a unanimous recommendation to [AEW owner Tony] Khan that CM Punk be terminated with cause," an AEW statement said at the time.

In early April, Punk—who has since returned to WWE and was set to be one of the headliners at WrestleMania 40 before suffering a triceps injury at the Royal Rumble—appeared on Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour podcast and wasn't shy about expressing his feelings on AEW or Tony Khan's plan to keep him and The Young Bucks on different shows.

"Tony's big idea was to do a separate show," he said. "'We are going to separate everybody,' and I said, 'That's never going to work. Just let me go. Just get me out of here. Just pay me my money. I've already been off TV. I hurt this arm. Just get me out of here.'"

"It's best," he continued. "These guys don't want me here. This isn't a real business. This isn't a real business predicated on making money, drawing money, selling tickets, you know doing business. It's not what it was sold to me as."

According to Punk, the issue with Perry stemmed from him wanting to smash out a rental car window with a bat at a Collision match, but the on-site doctor and others in the promotion told him no. When Punk told him to back off the idea at the time, Perry obliged.

Before Hook slammed him into a car windshield at All In, Perry tapped the vehicle's window and looked into the camera and said "Real glass, cry me a river," which Punk took as a dig.

Punk said he approached Khan to handle the situation, Khan didn't address it and The Second City Saint confronted Perry himself, asking, "Why do you insist on doing this dumb internet s--t on TV?"

Perry reportedly responded, "Well if you got a problem about it, do something about it," and the rest is history.

"I thought I did the responsible thing," Punk told Helwani. "I didn't punch anybody. I just choked him a little bit. I turned to Tony (Khan) and said, 'This place is a f--king joke man. You're a clown. I quit.'"

Punk's issues with AEW and The Young Bucks were no secret, but All In was ultimately the point of no return.

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