After returning to AEW at Full Gear this previous Saturday, Kenny Omega is opening up concerning the backstage brawl with CM Punk that resulted in his two-month suspension.
Omega and The Young Bunks are slated to seem on tonight’s AEW: Dynamite, airing at 8/7c on TBS and going down in Chicago — Punk’s house city.
“There are things no one can talk about, so I’d encourage people to let it go,” Omega informed Sports Illustrated. “It doesn’t change that we want a team effort in AEW. I don’t even mean implicitly myself and my opponent. It also means the referee, the fans, the people who set up the ring, everyone — even a technical error can ruin the memory of a match… So I encourage people to move away from it because there is no information to be released. Though I cannot talk about it, I do want the fans to know I still want the best for pro wrestling.”
As you’ll recall, a melee broke out in September after Punk’s pointed feedback throughout a post-event media scrum for All Out. Punk reportedly exchanged phrases with the Young Bucks and Omega, after which a brawl ensued. Omega, Matt and Nick Jackson of the Young Bucks, Pat Buck, Christopher Daniels, Michael Nakazawa and Brandon Cutler have been subsequently suspended.
Omega went on to say that current tragedies similar to Jason David Frank’s dying and the mass taking pictures at Club Q have put issues into perspective for him. “This isn’t Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks against CM Punk,” the wrestler defined. “It is people trying to show off their craft. You can boo Kenny Omega, or the Young Bucks, or CM Punk, but I hope people don’t forget we’re human beings struggling to show our art.”
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