All Elite Wrestling finally broadcast the backstage footage of the altercation between CM Punk and Jack Perry at All In last summer, showing the current WWE star initiated physical connect in the scrap.
The one-minute video was aired Wednesday on Dynamite as part of the storyline around an upcoming tag team championship match between the Young Bucks — Matthew and Nicholas Jackson — and Punk’s close friends FTR — Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler at the Dynasty pay-per-view next Sunday.
The footage — which has no audio — showed Perry standing in the backstage area after his pre-show match at Wembley Stadium on Aug. 27 in which he made a reference to Punk previously nixing him using “real glass” during a recent “Collision” show and — saying “cry me a river.”
Punk, whose match with Samoa Joe was set to kick off the main card next, comes into the shot from the bottom right corner and approaches Perry.
The two talk for about 30 seconds, with Punk glancing back to his right at one point before the verbal exchange gets more heated.
As Perry, the son of “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Luke Perry, is still talking, Punk shoves him first and then charges at him again and appears to grab hold of him before Joe intervenes and breaks the two up.
An angry Punk then moves toward the area where Tony Khan is sitting and can be seen yelling at the AEW president — who has said he felt physically threatened — while being held back by Jerry Lynn and Malakai Black.
Punk, who also had a backstage altercation with The Buck and The Elite after All Out in 2021, was fired by AEW with cause on Sept 2.
He returned to WWE after nearly a decade away at Survivor Series in November.
Punk posted a photo of former President George W. Bush proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 in response to the tape being released.
He gave his side of what happened at All In during an interview with Ariel Helwani last week.
“I walk up to him and I’m like, ‘Jack, why do you insist on doing this dumb internet s–t on TV?’” Punk told Helwani. “He’s like, if you have a problem, do something about it.’ I was like, ‘Come on man. I can f–king kill you. What are we doing?
“I thought I was doing the responsible thing. I didn’t punch anybody. I just choked somebody a little bit. Samoa Joe was there, told me to stop. I quit. I turned to Tony and said, ‘This place is a f–king joke. You’re a clown. I quit.’ I went to my room, Joe and Jerry Lynn came and got me and we’re like, ‘Let’s go out there and kill it.’”
Punk went out and had his match with Joe and won in his final bout with AEW.
AEW also likely released the footage to create a storyline angle to bring Perry — who was suspended after the All In incident — back to their television show for the first time since.
