The sun appears to be setting on the CM Punk era in AEW, as after an amazing debut and an AEW World Championship reign cut short by injury, the chaos after All Out seems to have put any hopes of a continued run in AEW down for the count. Since the brawl occurred between Punk, the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and Ace Steel, more details have started to surface, and recently a report stated that Chris Jericho called Punk a cancer to the locker room. In a reply to a tweet regarding how Omega, Matt and Nick Jackson, and Omega changed the world when they helped start AEW, someone brought up Cody Rhodes and why he left, and Rhodes put any notion of him leaving because of his fellow EVPs or Punk to rest.
I didn’t leave because of the Bucks/Kenny. I’m forever bonded to those men over what we created and I remain very proud of it, and I didn’t leave because of/or have issues with Punk. We got along. Not money, not booking, just a personal issue and my wanting to go for the big one.
