CM Punk’s first match in virtually eight years was towards Darby Allin at AEW All Out 2021. Nearly two years faraway from that bout, the Straight-Edge Celebrity sees Darby as one of many firm’s MVPs.
Throughout a current dialog with Sports activities Illustrated, Punk was requested to establish the AEW locker room’s ‘Connor Bedard’ (in reference to the 18-year-old phenom who was drafted by Punk’s beloved Chicago Blackhawks hockey group), and named Allin as somebody who may very well be a cornerstone of the model for the following decade.
“It is Darby Allin. He is nonetheless pretty younger, and he all the time makes rooster salad out of rooster sh*t,” Punk mentioned.
Persevering with, the ‘Actual AEW World Champion’ mentioned:
“He is bought that ‘It Issue’, and he is actually getting snug. We had a complete massive promo section a couple of weeks in the past [on Collision], and I believed he shined. That made me tremendous proud. He has a tonne to supply, so long as he would not kill himself leaping over his home in a f***ing monster truck or one thing like that”.
Darby will group with Sting to tackle Swerve Strickland and AR Fox in a Coffin Match at All On this Sunday.