Claim made that there’s still “a lot of divisiveness” in AEW that hasn’t gotten better

On Wednesday afternoon, Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline.com tweeted that CM Punk “is in the building” for the June 21st 2023 edition of Dynamite in Chicago, IL. During an appearance on PostWrestling.com’s podcast, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline commented on the backstage morale in AEW now that Punk has returned to the company…

“One thing on the show tonight [Dynamite]. You know, one of the one people… one of the top guys was told that we would not have to deal with Punk except for on pay-per-view. And it’s like, but here he is, week one. It’s not like it’s a surprise or anything. It’s just, you know, these ideas change or what people are told change. People are kind of like, this is the company, it’s a new company. That’s all there is. You know, that’s how people view it. It’s a new company. As far as business-wise, what that means, we’ll find out. And as far as morale-wise, it depends on how Punk is. Punk needs to be magnanimous with everyone, and I think you will probably try at least with most, but, there’s a lot of divisiveness that, it’s so frustrating to me because I see it so closely and I feel it shouldn’t be there. And, you know, it’s worse now than it’s been. It hasn’t gotten better now. Right now, it’s at a pretty bad point again.”

Meltzer also talked about how Punk’s ESPN interview and promo did not help matters…

“Nobody was really, it’s like, ‘Okay, it’s whatever.’ And then the ESPN story was the talk of the locker room on Wednesday, which led to a lot of issues. I am of the impression that people were expecting worse than it turned out to be. But you still have people who are, the people who really like Adam Page, were not happy, you know? And I think there’s this feeling of everyone there is pretty much told, like, ‘Keep the stuff on the inside, on the inside that if it gets out, it’s not good for the company.’ And then the feeling is that one side is agreeing to do that, and the other side is not. But the thing is, on both sides, they think it’s the other side. So it becomes like a really weird thing.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)