CM Punk dropped a different type of “pipe bomb” following his huge victory at All Out.

The now two-time All Elite Wrestling champion unloaded on Colt Cabana, whose real name is Scott Colton, “Hangman” Adam Page and the AEW executive vice presidents in a fiery rant to open the media scrum after the pay-per-view at the NOW Arena in Chicago on Sunday.

Punk, whose real name is Phil Brooks, appeared genuinely angry about reports he pushed for the company to part ways with Cabana. Punk and his former friend had a falling out when they were both sued for defamation by ex-WWE doctor Chris Ammen for comments Punk made on Cabana’s “The Art of Wrestling Podcast” in 2014. Punk, who won the case against Ammen in 2018, and Cabana eventually sued each other over legal fees stemming from that case and the dispute was eventually settled in 2019.

AEW President Tony Khan told Forbes last week that Cabana was brought back as part of the roster for Ring of Honor, which Khan bought in March and where Cabana has a long history. He also said Punk had “nothing to do with any of the contracts.”

Punk still felt it necessary to address his relationship — or lack thereof — with Cabana on Sunday.

“I haven’t had anything to do with Scott Colton for almost a decade. Probably wanted nothing to do with him even longer than that,” Punk said. “It’s f–king unfortunate that I have to come up here and speak on this when I’m on my time and this is a f–king business. Why I’m a grown-ass adult man and I decide not to be friends with somebody is nobody else’s f–king business. But my friends, if I fall backwards, will catch me. Scott Colton, I felt, never would have.

“My problem was I wanted to bring a guy with me to the top that did not want to see me at the top, OK? You can call it jealousy, you can call it envy, whatever the f–k it is. My relationship with Scott Colton ended long before I paid all of his bills. I have every receipt. I have every invoice. I have every email. I have [an] email where he says ‘I agree to go our separate ways, I will get my own lawyer and you do not have to pay anymore.’

“That’s an email that I have and the only reason the public did not see is because when I finally had to countersue him, through discovery we discovered he shared a bank account with his mother. That’s a fact. As soon as we discovered that fact and we subpoenaed old Marsha, he sent the email ‘oh, can we please drop all this?’ Now, it’s 2022. I haven’t been friends with this guy since at least 2014, late-2013.

Punk then turned his ire to the company’s EVP, the Young Bucks’ Matt and Nick Jackson, and Kenny Omega. It’s unclear if Punk was upset about them leaking the story or failing to say it was untrue.

“The fact that I have to sit up here because we have irresponsible people who call themselves EVPs and couldn’t f–king manage a Target and they spread lies and bulls–t and put into the media that I got somebody fired when I have f–k all to do with him, want nothing to do with him, do not care where he works, where he doesn’t work, where he eats, where he sleeps… the fact that I have to get up and do this in 2022 is f–king embarrassing.”

Fightful Select reported early Monday morning that the Bucks and Omega – who were originally scheduled to appear at the press conference after being crowned the first AEW trio champions — were “extremely pissed off” by Punk’s comments. Reports from the Wrestling Observer and DAZN followed, saying Punk and the Bucks got into a physical altercation backstage over his comments, with the latter stating Punk threw punches at one member of the tag team before it was broken up.

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“It’s not [Khan’s] position to make it very f–king clear,” Punk said. “There’s people who call themselves EVPs that should have f–king known better. This s–t was none of their business. I understand sticking up for your f–king friends, I f–king get it, I stuck up for that guy [Cabana] more than anybody. OK? I paid his bills until I didn’t and it was my decision not to.”

Punk eventually turned to Hangman, the former AEW world champion who the former WWE star beat for the world title at Double or Nothing. Upon Punk’s returned from surgery three weeks ago, he appeared to go off script on Page by challenging him to a match he wasn’t able or prepared to accept and calling it “coward s–t.“ There were reports Punk was upset with some of the comments Page made during their promo leading up to their Double or Nothing match. Punk seemed to confirm that to be true and show him calling out Page as a way to prove a point to the young star about how to do proper business in his eyes.

“What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed f–king dumbf–k like ‘Hangman’ Adam Page to go out on national television and f–king go into business for himself? For what? What did I ever do? … Didn’t do a goddamn thing.”

He wasn’t done.  

“I’m trying to run a f–king business,” Punk continued. “And when somebody who hasn’t done a damn thing in this business jeopardizes the first million dollar house that this company has ever drawn off of my back and goes on national television and does that, it’s a disgrace to this industry, it’s a disgrace to this company”

At least at the moment, it doesn’t feel like the relationship between Punk and Hangman can be mended and won’t need to be. Punk is getting set to reignite his story with the returning MJF and Page is entangled in a storyline around Omega, the Bucks, the Dark Order and the trio’s championships.

“We’re far beyond apologies,” Punk said. “I gave him a f–king chance, it did not get handled, and you saw what I had to do, which is very regrettable, lowering myself to his f–king level. But that’s where we’re at right now. And I will still walk up and down this hallway and say ‘if you have a f–king problem with me, take it up with me.”

While everything in pro wrestling comes with the question of is this real or part of the storyline, this was a very unfiltered and emotional Punk.