When the decision to sell ROH was made by the officials, they contacted both WWE and AEW for the purchase. Tony Khan beat Vince McMahon in this race and he became the new owner of the indie promotion. CM Punk, for one, is glad that Mr McMahon didn’t come out ahead in this competition.
Punk talked about the sale of the promotion in the post Revolution media scrum (quotes: WrestlingInc). He explained why he is glad that AEW bought the company, claiming that he didn’t want Vince to own any more of his footage than he already does:
‘Let’s talk facts here, either Tony or Vince were going to buy ROH, I didn’t want Vince to own any of my [ROH] footage. He owns enough of it already that I don’t get paid for.” said CM Punk, “People need to understand that when I left [WWE], I was asking questions about the WWE Network, which had not been launched yet. I was saying, ’˜how am I going to get paid from this?’”
Punk later explained that he didn’t get a clear response from the officials when he asked about the royalty for his footage on the WWE Network. He mentioned how nobody gets paid the royalties anymore and according to the former WWE star “That’s criminal.’
