The AEW: Fight Forever launch date has lastly been set for June 29, however after years of ready, the announcement has solely given wrestling followers extra gasoline for his or her wild hypothesis about why the sport’s taken so lengthy.
AEW administration had been teasing a sport since 2019, earlier than the scrappy wrestling promotion had even aired its first TV episode. Plans for Yuke’s, the previous WWE 2K developer, to make the sport had been made official in 2020, and the title of AEW: Struggle Ceaselessly was lastly introduced in 2022. All through this protracted advertising and marketing cycle, information in regards to the sport tended to extra typically come by wrestling rumor mills than correct bulletins, and regardless of optimistic responses to showings at occasions like Gamescom, followers have been a bit skeptical about whether or not this sport’s going to ship a correct various to 2K.
Insider reports prompt that AEW: Struggle Ceaselessly was anticipated to launch in September 2022 – however that month proved to be a controversial one for AEW. That is when the previously long-retired megastar CM Punk defeated Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship throughout All Out, and in a post-show media occasion, went extraordinarily off-script to air his private grievances in opposition to a number of fellow wrestlers. After among the founding members of AEW confronted Punk over these feedback, a backstage fight ensued that wrestling fans coined ‘Brawl Out’.
Whereas all that sounds prefer it needs to be a wrestling storyline, it is sadly fairly actual. Punk was unceremoniously stripped of the championship and shortly disappeared from AEW tv. A number of months after the brawl, a brand new trailer for Struggle Ceaselessly was launched, and at the moment the game’s cover art was altered to remove CM Punk. AEW insisted that Punk had not been removed from the game, however wrestling followers being wrestling followers, there started to be a sense that perhaps this complete unusual dispute could possibly be holding the sport again.
Now, we’re as soon as once more in the course of rumors that Punk is returning to AEW, probably to headline a new weekly wrestling show for the company. No one has any concept at this level whether or not Punk and AEW have mended their relationship, however the timing of those new rumors with the Struggle Ceaselessly launch date has gotten us to the purpose of further reckless speculation.
Possibly AEW was holding the sport again for Punk’s comeback? Or perhaps he is gone and so they’re lastly clear to launch the sport with out his likeness hooked up? The chances are really limitless. “This undoubtedly confirms that CM Punk is again,” as one Reddit user places it. “Or that he is gone for good. Or that it is nonetheless up within the air.”
The one issues extra exhausting than online game rumors are wrestling rumors, and now that they have been mixed, I simply need to fall asleep.
Bone up on the AEW roster whereas we await additional information.
