A new book chronicling the first five years of AEW has noticeably omitted the controversial exit of its biggest star, CM Punk.
This Book Is Elite does not reference the backstage altercation at All In: London or the specific circumstances that led to Punk’s firing. Speaking to Futures of Wrestling, author Keith Elliot Greenberg explained that because the project is a “tribute book,” he felt the negative incidents didn’t belong.
“If I wrote a book about the New York Mets… I would talk about the two World Series runs… but I wouldn’t talk about the fact that the owners at the time were supposedly investors with Bernie Madoff,” Greenberg reasoned. “I was asked to do a book that is a tribute to AEW during the first five years, and that doesn’t belong in a tribute book.”
Greenberg admitted he anticipated backlash for the exclusion but insisted the book offers plenty of deep, positive backstage insights that fans will appreciate.
