The author of 'This Book is All Elite' explains why he did not include the fight between CM Punk and Jack Perry

All Elite Wrestling recently celebrated its sixth anniversary as a wrestling company. Six very productive years in every sense have passed. During this time, the promotion has gathered a great roster with some of the best talents in the world, in addition to establishing partnerships with top-level companies like NJPW, STARDOM, and CMLL, not to mention one of its greatest achievements: the historic All In event at Wembley Stadium in London.

However, AEW has also experienced unfortunate episodes. One of the most well-known involved CM Punk and Jack Perry, who, after weeks of tensions, ended up fighting backstage during the celebration of All In London II.

An episode that will not appear in the book "This Book is All Elite", which reviews and analyzes in depth the first six years of the promotion's history. This was explained by its author, Keith Elliot Greenberg, during a recent interview with Features of Wrestling.

"Some people have mentioned this. Every time I write a book, I will always be criticized, and I take that for granted. Every time I do an interview, I am criticized, sometimes by the same people on Twitter. I know their usernames. By now, I have been criticized so much that I know their names. So one of the criticisms I anticipated in advance, and even discussed with AEW, was that people would not be happy that I didn't talk about any backstage shenanigans that led to CM Punk's departure. This is a tribute book," he said.

"If I were to write a book about the New York Mets, which is my favorite baseball team —I even have a Mr. Met tattoo—, I would talk about their two appearances in the World Series. I would talk about their star players, but I wouldn't talk about the fact that the owners at the time were supposedly investors with Bernie Madoff, a very corrupt financier who apparently ended up stealing millions of dollars from the U.S. Holocaust Foundation. The guy was stealing from everyone.

As a fan, there is a lot of suspicion that this could have compromised the team, because who knows, was Mets money used? They said no. But as a baseball fan, as a fan of the team, you suspect things. But if the New York Mets asked me to make a tribute book about the New York Mets, I could make a great tribute book without mentioning Bernie Madoff."

"So they asked me to make a book that paid tribute to AEW during its first five years, and that doesn't belong in a tribute book, because we are really talking about one or two incidents, but the book contains many backstage things, and many of them are positive. There is a lot about how the Stadium Stampede was created, how The Acclaimed got their name, and why Tony Khan wanted to put Max Caster and Anthony Bowens on the same team.

Let's move on to Mariah May, who is now in NXT, and Toni Storm, the movie that inspired the idea in Tony Khan's mind, that story. So it's not all superficial. There are deep things that you wouldn't know, and I don't think the book loses anything by not mentioning an unfortunate incident behind the scenes," he concluded.

That incident led to CM Punk's departure from All Elite Wrestling and Jack Perry's temporary suspension. "The Best in the World" ended up returning to WWE later that same year while Perry would return to AEW's television programming to continue his solo career as "The Scapegoat". Currently, both enjoy a great status in their respective companies.