Jim Cornette Says Hype Behind CM Punk Signing Is Dying Down Due To How AEW Is Using Him

CM Punk made his return to the wrestling world back in August during AEW’s “The First Dance” Rampage Special that was held in Punks hometown of Chicago. Since his debut with the company he has been present for every show and has had some great matches against the likes of Darby Allen, Will Hobbs, and Daniel Garcia.

Jim cornett has previously been very critical of how AEW has used punk since his debut and now he thinks the hype behind the signing is dying down.

While speaking on his podcast, The Jim Cornette Experience, Jim Cornette talked about CM Punk wrestling against lesser-known and not high profile stars. Cornette stated that AEW has devalued the idea of CM punk wrestling because of that.

“It was 20th of August when this program brought CM Punk back to pro wrestling after seven years and scored somewhere around 1.1-1.2 million viewers so it can happen. It is a valuable piece of television real estate, you can use it for good. We aren’t aware what the ratings were last night yet, but the ratings of Rampage have been dropping. So, the ratings have been going down on Rampage since Punk’s debut. Now we expected that there would naturally be some drop because you have this once in a lifetime event, it’s not possible every week.

But now we have gone essentially half, last week was half. So basically, in two months they fell back to half of what Punk return show did and that has been with Punk wrestling. They were in a situation where one of the biggest stars in wrestling had not entered a ring in seven years and people were confused if they will ever see him again and suddenly they get a big number.

And after that, they want to see CM Punk wrestle Darby Allin; but since then, we have gone to Daniel Garcia, fine young man. Then Matt Sydal, fine young man, who is next week? The lead singer of the Fine Young Cannibals? They hve devalued the idea of watching CM Punk wrestling on television by making it too commonplace again people that, let’s face it, everyone knows CM Punk is gonna beat Daniel Garcia, everyone knows CM Punk is going to beat Matt Sydal,” 

Punk has stated that he would love to be one of the next wrestlers to cross through the forbidden door and wrestle for New Japan. We will have to see what is next for Punk.

Below is the full episode of the Jim Cornett Experience.

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