All In rocked. Great atmosphere, good matches. Adam Cole and MJF showed real growth in the Champion, nice bit of love to it. All the old guys got treated like stars (Sting is fucking unreal at 62.) I missed the Punk match but it's great to watch a PPV live and still have some energy after it from it not finishing at 4am.
Poor Tony.. Weirdly , i used to interact with him on a wrestling message board in like the year 2000. Obviously not knowing he was a billionaire but its so strange to think that this superfan turned out to be a such a force in the world of wrestling . He made the right call btw.
how it started was a wrestler called Adam Page gave him a stiff chop (purely by accident by all accounts) .. Punk then went on the mic and shot on him for real and made him look bad. That led to a lot of bad feeling. Then Punk brawled backstage with the young Bucks and Kenny Omega after a PPV.
Then he sat out for a few months , came back and it was decided to keep him away from the wrestlers he had a problem with.
Then he had a run-in with a young wrestler called Jack Perry (son of late actor Luke Perry) over Perry wanting to use real glass in an angle.
Then last sunday Perry and Punk brawled minutes before the biggest show in company history was due to start . Apparently the owner Tony Khan was physically involved as were other non wrestling staff.
The common denominator in all of this is Punk. Ironically he is their biggest merchandise seller and they are running a PPV in Chicago this evening…