Former AEW star Ryan Nemeth has filed a lawsuit against AEW, its president Tony Khan, and Phil Brooks, better known as CM Punk.
The lawsuit was filed on February 14, alleging breach of contract and assault, with Nemeth seeking a trial by jury as well as punitive damages and compensation.
It was revealed in December of last year that Nemeth filed a complaint with AEW claiming abuse and harassment from CM Punk while he was still working for the company.
According to the document obtained by Fightful, Nemeth backed up his complaints with copies of e-mails, phone call logs, text messages, and other electronic records but AEW failed to address the situation and instead, he was “ordered to verbally antagonize” Punk on television in return.
Nemeth’s complaint started in April 2023 and went on for a few months. He said that Punk threatened him in the locker room after Nemeth tweeted that Punk was the “softest wrestler alive.” His complaint went straight to Megha Parekh, who at the time was the AEW Chief Legal Officer.
The lawsuit alleges that on June 21, 2023, Punk assaulted Nemeth in the locker room, yelling at him and asking, “Do we have a f*cking problem? Do we need to step outside and handle this like men?”
Nemeth said in the lawsuit that nothing was done to Punk but he was benched for over two months and after Punk was fired from AEW, Tony Khan was “heartbroken” that “his idol that he adored in every way” was gone from the company, with Nemeth alleging that Khan was furious with him and blamed him for Punk leaving.
Nemeth, the brother of former TNA champion Nic Nemeth, currently works for TNA Wrestling.
