KENTA responds to report of potential CM Punk match

NJPW Strong Openweight Champion KENTA has responded to a report of a potential match against CM Punk at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. 

On Twitter Thursday, KENTA quote tweeted the WrestlingCovers Twitter account referencing a Fightful report that KENTA vs. CM Punk has been discussed for Forbidden Door on Sunday, June 25. The accompanying tweet included a fake match graphic made by the ItsTomsCustoms account. 

KENTA tweeted: 

Oh hell no 

Tell Tony Khan 

GIVE ME THE BAG

KENTA’s acknowledgment of the report continues a long-running, typically one-sided social media feud between KENTA and Punk where KENTA teases the match and Punk does not acknowledge the possibility. 

On June 6, KENTA tweeted in response to a video of Punk acknowledging that he stole his GTS finisher from KENTA in a red carpet interview from more than a decade ago. KENTA said he was only willing to wrestle Punk if the money was right: 

I don’t really care who’s the original G2S. There is only one truth. If you want me to have match against Punk, Give Me correct amount of money. Other than that I don’t need to have this match. Seriously.

He also tweeted on June 6 in response to the fake match graphic: 

It depends on money 

On May 31, KENTA tweeted that he was free on June 17 in a quote tweet of the AEW Collision poster featuring Punk: 

I’m free on June 17th.

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Ethan Renner
Ethan Renner

An F4WOnline Editor since 2019, Ethan has been covering wrestling and MMA since 2011. He has hosted The Wrestling Life Podcast since 2014, and is a former Baltimore Sun TV/Tribune Media contributor. He is also a Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles fan.