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Do you really care? If you don't like me, don't watch. It's a perfect storm. It's a lot of everything. It's the money, it's the freedom. It's the creative, and it's the possibility of working with young, talented people that excite me. But in the spring, Punk had brought up the United Center.
Khan looked into it in May or June and saw that the building had Aug. The wrestling website Fightful. On Aug. He and Salls Cree had been talking on and off for two years. It would be the promotion's largest live audience to date, although Punk was never officially announced. Punk needed a new T-shirt for his huge return, so Barkan put him in touch with artist Dave Stenken.
They came up with a design and AEW quickly approved it. The shirts would be ready for Aug. Barkan had to have the shirts printed at a different warehouse, so his staff didn't know what was going on. He delivered the first batch, which were customized with an "I was there" message for all in attendance, himself.
Meanwhile, Salls Cree and her nine employees at Pretty Cool were carrying the Punk ice cream bars up by hand from their downstairs freezer before driving them over. Punk arrived early at the United Center and got a text from his lawyer while there. He told Punk that he should probably sign his AEW contract before appearing on television, so he did that about 30 minutes before the start of Rampage.
Before the show began, Barkan took his seat in the front row. Punk came out to one of the loudest reactions in the history of pro wrestling. On his phone, Barkan was watching the Pro Wrestling Tees website traffic -- and the site immediately crashed when the T-shirts went live. Lines for the shirt at the United Center climbed up escalators and throughout the concourse.
The website came back online 12 hours later, and that weekend the Punk return shirts surpassed the company's all-time selling shirt record. The new CM Punk shirts sold more than that in less than three days, even with the site crashing. Barkan said the new Punk shirts are on pace to reach more than , sold and orders have come from as far away as Malta, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. Back at United Center, Punk was nearly brought to tears as he walked out.
He slapped hands, hugged fans and did a stage dive into the crowd at one point. Inside the ring, he cut an emotional promo about his pro wrestling journey, the city he loves and why he wanted to return in front of his hometown fans. At the end of his speech, Punk told the 15, fans that on their way out there would be ice cream bars "on me. CMPunk pic. The next morning, a wide-eyed Salls Cree watched the segment on YouTube from home. Up until that point, she really had no idea what all those ice cream bars were for.
Her husband woke her up and she opened Instagram to 90 messages, mostly of people wanting the Punk ice cream bars, some from as far away as Italy and Colombia. That was so Chicago to me. When he got back behind the curtain, Punk saw Khan first, then walked down the stairs to hug D'Angeli. Just enjoy it," Punk said. CM Punk. Superstar Stats CM Punk. Weight lbs. Hometown Chicago. Signature Move G.
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