CM Punk responds to 'top name' leaking apparent backstage issues after Punk's return

Punk made his AEW return on the June 17 debut episode of Collision. During this episode, Punk cut a promo in which he took a dig at the Young Bucks and other “soft” wrestlers, before teaming with Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler to defeat Jay White, Juice Robinson and Samoa Joe in trios action.
Speaking with POST Wrestling ahead of Dynamite, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer indicated that there’s a lot of “divisiveness” backstage after what Punk said in his return, as well as the ESPN interview that released before Collision, and that things are at a “pretty bad point” again.
And then in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter today, Meltzer reported that a “top name” told him they were in a “bad mood” leaving Dynamite because of the whole situation. He wrote:
But one top name noted to us that they went home after the show on Wednesday in a bad mood and even with the key people kept apart and not on the same shows, described the fear of this being a ticking time bomb that will not have a happy ending.

In response to this story, CM Punk took to his Instagram stories and simply posted a photo of himself with Rancid’s “Time Bomb” song playing, as you can see below.
Punk isn’t the only major AEW name to respond to this “ticking time bomb” story with AEW World Tag Team Champion Dax Harwood responding in a tweet, which you can read here.
As previously noted, Punk was present at this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite while The Elite were not, but all the parties will be in the building for this Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door event. This is expected to be a rare occurrence as they legally aren’t allowed to interact with each other.

Punk went on record in last week’s interview with ESPN saying that he had attempted to contact members of The Elite after All Out, but the response was letters from attorneys telling him not to.
Since then, the two sides haven’t had any kind of interaction with each other.