{"id":160116,"date":"2023-06-08T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=160116"},"modified":"2023-06-08T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:46:00","slug":"tony-khan-comments-on-official-return-of-cm-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/08\/tony-khan-comments-on-official-return-of-cm-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Khan comments on official return of CM Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1120595187\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Tony Khan says the returning CM Punk is important to wrestling and important to AEW.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.amp\/wrestling\/2023\/06\/07\/aew-tony-khan-collision-forbidden-door\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>, Khan talked about Punk&#8217;s return and the origins of AEW Collision, which will premiere on TNT on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen CM Punk in a long time,\u00a0since\u00a0<em>All Out<\/em>\u00a0last September,\u201d says Khan. \u201cHe looked great in his last match. To the fans, he\u2019s very important. He\u2019s very important to the company, too. He\u2019s been a big draw for us and historically throughout his career, and the launch of the new show happens to line up with the schedule on his rehab of his triceps injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an amazing opportunity with AEW on Saturday nights on TNT, starting June 17, and it was truly the brainchild of [Warner Bros. Discovery CEO and president] David Zaslav. He asked about more AEW, specifically Saturday nights, on TNT. When it was pitched to us by TNT, I was so excited. It\u2019s so exciting the timing [of Punk\u2019s return from injury] coincides with the launch of\u00a0<em>Collision<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/07\/aew-dynamite-tv-results-5-31-kellers-report-on-starks-vs-white-mjf-speaks-tk-announces-first-collision-main-event-statlander-vs-anna-jay\/\">On this week&#8217;s episode of AEW Dynamite<\/a>, Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/07\/aew-collision-premiere-main-event-announced\/\">announced that the main event<\/a> of the first AEW Collision would feature CM Punk teaming with FTR to take on the team of Samoa Joe &amp; Jay White &amp; Juice Robinson in a Trios Match.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/08\/major-matches-announced-for-next-weeks-aew-dynamite-2\/\">Major matches announced for next week\u2019s AEW Dynamite<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1612098043\"><div id=\"pwtor-3374032226\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tony Khan says the returning CM Punk is important to wrestling and important to AEW. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Khan talked about Punk&#8217;s return and the origins of AEW Collision, which will premiere <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/08\/tony-khan-comments-on-official-return-of-cm-punk\/\" title=\"Tony Khan comments on official return of CM Punk\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":159097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[6121,6120,283,6118],"class_list":["post-160116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","tag-aew","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-cm-punk","tag-tony-khan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-19-at-4.21.24-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160117,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160116\/revisions\/160117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}