AEW is looking for a potential alternative venue for their first AEW Collision event.
On Wrestling Observer Radio Friday, Meltzer reported that Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida has been contacted. The show originally was intended to take place in Chicago, Illinois. However, a dispute between CM Punk and AEW has put his return to the company in question, causing AEW to make a backup plan in case things sour even further.
“They do have the United Center booked. They are working on booking the Daily’s Place,” Meltzer said. “The people at the Daily’s Place has been told it’s a backup plan, it’s not the ‘A’ plan. So Chicago is still in place.”
If the situation between Punk and AEW is unresolved, it could make things tougher for Collision, which needs starpower in order to even have a chance against some of the competition they’ll be facing in the timeslot.
“Man, the competition they are going to face every single week," Meltzer said. "There’s no easy weeks. It’s not like on Wednesday when at least when the NBA is over they're going to get a little bit of a break…every big fight is Saturday night.”
The dispute between CM Punk and AEW, according to this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, arose when Tony Khan told CM Punk that while Ace Steel could return to AEW and work close with Punk, Steel could not return as a producer for the Collision television show.
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