"Greatest wrestling return of all time" - Twitter erupts on CM Punk's one-year anniversary in AEW

AEW fans showed their excitement on social media as August 20, 2022 marks the one-year anniversary of CM Punk's debut in the company.

The Straight Edge Superstar made his first appearance in All Elite Wrestling at The First Dance event on Rampage. Punk's first match in AEW was against Darby Allin at All Out 2021, his in-ring return finally coming after seven years.

CM Punk's first major feud in the Jacksonville-based promotion was against MJF, which culminated with a Dog Collar match at Revolution 2022. He then proceeded to win the AEW World Championship at Double or Nothing after defeating Hangman Page via pinfall. However, an injury shortly after resulted in him taking off to recuperate.

Punk made his return at the Quake By The Lake edition of Dynamite and had a confrontation with interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley. On this week's Wednesday night show, he cut a controversial promo where he called out Hangman Page by going off-script.

The Twitterati exploded on his one-year anniversary in AEW despite the recent negativity surrounding the former WWE Superstar. Here are a few of the reactions to it:

You can check out the full results of AEW Rampage HERE.

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WWE legend Bully Ray slammed CM Punk for his recent segment on AEW Dynamite

While speaking on the latest edition of the Busted Open podcast, Ray spoke about Punk calling out Hangman Page in his promo, and the wrestling veteran wasn't a fan of it. Bully Ray said he didn't see the point in burying Page in front of his hometown crowd:

“Putting Hangman [Page] back into this picture doesn’t really do anything for me, but I do agree with why go out of your way to bury him in his hometown? Why go from cowboy sh*t to coward sh*t? Now if Hangman doesn’t answer that coward sh*t line, now people have to look at him like he’s a bit of a b**ch. If I’m a Hangman fan I’m wondering ‘hey, where were you last night?’ And if you never answer this, and I think he will, because AEW is good at planting a seed here and not coming back to it for a while,” said Ray.

While Punk is in the midst of controversy in AEW, he has a huge title unification match coming up against Jon Moxley on next week's Dynamite. It will be interesting to see who emerges victorious and becomes the undisputed champion in Tony Khan's promotion.

How do you rate CM Punk's first year in All Elite Wrestling? Let us know in the comments section below.