According to Punk, Perry was amenable in their initial discussion, merely feeling it could have been a cool idea. However, Punk reasoned that smashing a rental car would have come at the detriment of the business, casting a bad light on the profession from the side of the rental companies. In any case, he wasn’t pleased with issues arising so quickly after a solution had been devised. 

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“To come to this new show when everyone is supposed to be separated, to get rid of all the drama. Swearing at the doctor. The doctor is like, ‘It’s real glass. S*** is going to go in your eye.’ I get it. I used to be that kid who was young and wanted to do this. There is a safe way to do this. I politely explained that to him. I didn’t raise my voice. I didn’t cuss at him. I was just like, ‘We don’t do that here. This is Saturday. You want to do stuff like this, do it on Wednesday.’ That was it. I didn’t think it was going to be a problem … He obviously took something very business-minded, very personally. That’s fine. I’ve done that before too. It’s very much who he is friends with and s*** never got squashed. Nobody is in charge. It turned into what it turned into.”

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Punk explained that he called on Khan to “be the boss” and sort out the escalating issues between himself and Perry: I went to Tony Khan and was like, ‘Please handle that. Please.’ He’s like, ‘What do you want me to do?’ ‘I’m not telling you what to do. Just be the boss, please. I’m tired of this s***. I told you it was a mistake. I told you separate shows wasn’t going to work and now we’re all here. Please, handle it. If you don’t, you’re not going to like the way I handle it.'”