Will Ospreay thought CM Punk’s altercation with Jack Perry at AEW All In 2023 was a promo
While speaking to Ariel Helwani, Will Ospreay was asked about how AEW has evolved since the 2022-2023 period. Here was the exchange…
Helwani: “You arrived at the very tail end of—well, actually, it was post-CM Punk, but it was right around the time that all the stuff kind of blew up with CM Punk. And it felt like the locker room was a little bit, you know, there was a rift, there was drama, there was all this stuff.
And what I continue to hear is it’s night and day. I heard this from Adam Copeland last week when he was on the show, that it’s just a completely different place. And so you can’t necessarily speak on maybe what it was like in ’23 or ’22, but I’m wondering if you can describe what’s so great about it right now and what you’ve heard about how it’s evolved. And I know this is something you’ve taken a lot of pride in being part of the change at AEW, and it seems like it’s all coming to fruition. How would you describe it these days?”
Ospreay: “I can’t comment that much because I wasn’t there. I was there at the Punk and Jack Perry thing. I was going over the match in my head, and I was sat there thinking to myself, like, ‘Oh, flipping hell. I need to get this right and this right.’ And I was making sure that everything was going on in my head.
And I heard a commotion, and I thought they were cutting a promo. So I got out of dodge, and then it was like I saw Punk walk past me and I was like, ‘Oh no, I know exactly what’s happened.’
So it was funny because it was one of those things where, like, you obviously read sh*t all the time on the internet, and then just to see it happen in front of you, it was just kind of like, ‘Oh, that’s lame.’
Every time I’ve come here, it’s been super enjoyable.”