Tony Khan Denies CM Punk Had Any Involvement in Colt Cabana Going to ROH

Tony Khan has spoken out to shoot down rumors that CM Punk had anything to do with Colt Cabana moving over to ROH. There has been speculation that the personal issues between Punk and Cabana were what led to Cabana being taken off of AEW TV, something Khan denied in an interview with Forbes.

“There is certainly a perception out there that I don’t think is accurate that when I purchased Ring of Honor and also [as] some of the contracts were coming up and I was starting to make moves—whether it was renewing them in most cases or not renewing them or in some cases reassigning people—there was a misconception that was perpetuated unfairly that CM Punk had anything to do with me wanting to move Colt Cabana to the Ring of Honor roster when his contract came up,” Khan said.

He continued, “I will clarify that, just to take it head on, that he [Punk] had nothing to do with any of the contracts I picked up, whether I did or didn’t. But in particular, I did pick up Colt Cabana’s contract and gave him a similar contract to do different work. I don’t know if it was fair that that got perpetuated…I also didn’t think that was fair to Punk.”

While Cabana has not been on AEW TV, he has been involved in promotional work for the company and appeared at Gamescom where he promoted AEW FIght Forever and worked several matches, going 3 – 0.