CM Punk says he ‘will never understand the criticism of appealing to your fanbase’

While speaking to the media after the 2021 AEW Full Gear PPV, CM Punk commented on the AEW audience…

“I definitely think there’s overlap. I don’t know if everybody who is a WWE fan came over here specifically just to watch me. But what I recognize in front of an AEW audience is an audience that I used to wrestle in front of prior to the [WWE], it’s the wrestling fans.”

“I will never understand the criticism of appealing to your fanbase. If this is our fanbase, we give them what they want, everybody’s happy. Now I understand building a business and, people talk about trying to get casual viewers – I don’t think there’s casual wrestling fans anymore, my opinion. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe somebody in TNT’s gonna get mad I’m saying this – our fans are wrestling fans, and we give them wrestling.” (quotes courtesy of Sportskeeda.com)