Far as a potential lawsuit goes, when Punk signed some NDA forms about Brawl Out a year ago, he also signed forms saying that he'd be terminated if he did...well...any of the things he's done lately that caused him to be terminated. So he doesn't have a case.
Seeing a lot of people dumping on the Young Bucks or saying "they must be thrilled" and all this other kind of stuff. Nope. The funniest thing about all of the Buck-blaming by the fanbase is that they never actually "had it out" for Punk. For a really long time Punk and Shawn Michaels were their two favorite wrestlers. They were the main ones who pursued Punk and tried to get him to give AEW a chance early on. They're probably more bummed than anybody at how things went.
AEW is no longer going to protect Punk, so look for a lot more negative stories about him to come out now that he's gone and people aren't afraid to speak up. Also AEW itself asked a number of reporters to keep things on the down-low so as not to embarrass Punk or the company itself. Which makes it even more comical how many Punk cultists vehemently believe that AEW leaked things to make him look bad and are now leaking things to hurt his chances with WWE. It was the other way around.
Around 7 out of 8 WWE main eventers don't want him there, his odds of doing anything else aren't very good either way. Fighting Samoa Joe one last time in front of 81,000 people was a pretty damn good way to end a career though. If Punk weren't so opposed to taking bipolar meds, he'd probably be feeling thankful right now that his legacy includes that as a final appearance. Instead I'm sure he's gonna pop off more in the near future and further scorch the earth and his reputation.
If the guy wanted to wrestle or had a love of wrestling, he would have been wrestling between WWE and AEW.
It's not like Moxley who is showing up on random indies because he just enjoys it.
Either he had his head turned by the promise of a big payout, or his ego was stoked with the promise of being the big star he always thought WWE screwed him out of.
He's done and this time I don't think anyone will be chanting his name.
Far as I know, no one substantially chanted his name at All Out.
Pre-Collision it was more or less a 50/50 crowd between pro and anti Punk, and that dwindled down to around 65/35 after Khan talked to the audience before the show started. The 35% got their Punk chants out of their system at that show, then the following night at the PPV none of that negative energy was really apparent. Crowd feeling for AO was more like "we've all had a stressful week, let's just have fun" and have fun they did.
The Miro/Hobbs match was incredibly fun and most of that was because of the crowd reactions to everything. AO turned into a "Raw after Wrestlemania" crowd in the best of ways really.
