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CM Punk’s promo on Raw

by Spoony on June 28, 2011 · 80 comments

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Federico/650771468 Jeremy Federico

    punk has since been suspended ending his tenure in WWE

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Gwinnup/524674866 Jeff Gwinnup

    And the IWC collectively orgasmed…Although it seems, to me, that it’s a very well crafted work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Gwinnup/524674866 Jeff Gwinnup

    And the IWC collectively orgasmed…Although it seems, to me, that it’s a very well crafted work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Gwinnup/524674866 Jeff Gwinnup

    And the IWC collectively orgasmed…Although it seems, to me, that it’s a very well crafted work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Gwinnup/524674866 Jeff Gwinnup

    And the IWC collectively orgasmed…Although it seems, to me, that it’s a very well crafted work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1218170422 Conner Johnson

    It’s a work. A very convincing, very entertaining work.

    If Punk was really shooting, they would’ve cut him off long before they actually did.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1218170422 Conner Johnson

    It’s a work. A very convincing, very entertaining work.

    If Punk was really shooting, they would’ve cut him off long before they actually did.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rossthebassist Ross Hindhaugh

    work or not, it prooves 1 thing, he is the best on the stick barrrrrr non
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/Panzergoob Jon Fite

    Nice worked shoot.

  • Anonymous

    If there is one thing that the WWE knows how to do well. It is the worked shoot.

    Paul Heyman’s shoot was awesome.
    Joey Styles’ was awesome.
    This one too was all kinds of awesome.

    • kidcoyote_anarchy

      They make for great moments. They get people buzzing. Too bad WWE never goes anywhere with them.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lieven-Vandersickel/1118874872 Lieven Vandersickel

        That’s exactly it.
         
        They start with some (imho) great ideas and storylines that could go into awesome territory. But then they just seem to lose interest or start playing it safe and go for the most boring route they could have taken.
        Like the Cena gets fired storyline. There was great potential in there. Not just for the many Cena-haters on the internet. No there was the potential to ‘break’ Cena, have him force to quit (actually quit) and then at a special event make him come back twice as hard in a way that Cena could have been more popular then ever. But instead they chose the safe route and let everything stay pretty much the same.
        The same with the Nexus ‘invasion’. They could have made a difference, but in the end nothing was accomplished and everything stay pretty much the same as before.

        Yeah they play it too safe.
        But at least they start out well. And the video packages and general ‘show elements’ (lightshow, music,…) is done well (most of the time). That’s something to give then credit for. :)

        • kidcoyote_anarchy

          That’s the big problem I have with WWE is they’re great at starting angles, but once a angle gets steam behind and gets over on the crowd (both casual & diehard) they kill it, yet when an angle goes nowhere they shove it down the audience’s throat. It seems like WWE has this bone to pick with it’s own audience (IWC in particular) in proving they’re always right and audience has no idea what it’s talking about in whats good.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Moore/817077660 Ron Moore

       Vince Russo should’ve been taking notes.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Moore/817077660 Ron Moore

       Vince Russo should’ve been taking notes.

  • http://twitter.com/Larslarsen39 Lars larsen

    SPOILERS: WWE Monday Night Raw for July 4

    *John Cena comes out and says CM Punk has lost his privilege to face him at Money In The Bank for the WWE Championship. They will have a triple threat match to determine the new number one contender. Cena says things will continue on as if CM Punk never existed. Cena says he doesn’t like the decision. Even though he doesn’t agree with him, he supports CM Punk’s right to speak his mind. Cena says he wants Vince McMahon to talk about this tonight.

    *Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres def. The Bella Twins

    *R-Truth is interviewed, saying he shouldn’t have to win a triple threat match to face John Cena since he beat him last week. R-Truth says it’s a conspiracy. Alberto Del Rio walks up and says it’s his destiny to win the match.

    *David Otunga & Michael McGillicutty def. Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov to retain the WWE Tag Team Championships. Zack Ryder came out after the match, said his catchphrase, and left.

    *The Miz complains about not being in the triple threat match and blames Alex Riley for that.

    *Jack Swagger def. Sgt. Slaughter. Evan Bourne saves Slaughters after Swagger holds the ankle lock on too long. Slaughter then leads the crowd to saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

    *Alberto Del Rio def. Rey Mysterio & R-Truth to become the new number one contender for the WWE Championship at Money in the Bank

    *Dolph Ziggler & Vickie Guerrero hold a Fourth of July party. Kofi Kingston interrupts and says Ziggler can’t beat him without Vickie in his corner. They brawl and Vickie falls into the cake.

    *Alex Riley def. The Miz. Miz attacked Riley after the match. Miz put him through the barricade and dropped the steel steps on him.

    *Vince McMahon comes out. McMahon says Punk was out of line with his comments and he wanted too much money for a new contract. That’s why he’s suspended. John Cena comes out and says he wants to face CM Punk at the PPV. Cena says if McMahon doesn’t want to fight then he should “hang it up”.

    McMahon says he really suspended Punk because he doesn’t want him leaving with the championship. Cena makes fun of McMahon for not letting Punk wrestle. McMahon tells him not to piss him off and be like Hulk Hogan. McMahon eventually reinstates CM Punk and rebooks the PPV match. McMahon warns Cena that if Punk leaves the PPV with the title that Cena will be fired.

    • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

      “ if Punk leaves the PPV with the title that Cena will be fired.”

      Another Cena gets fired stipulation?  The ONLY way this can work is if they try a Bret/Austin and have Cena turn heel by doing anything he can to keep his job and have Punk just wrestle to prove he is the best.

  • kidcoyote_anarchy

    As awesome as Punk’s promo was and one of the few on the current WWE roster who could pull off. But I take is as a big fuck you to the  audience. You can’t tell me for one second that Vince would let that air without knowing ahead of time exactly what Punk was going to say. (content wise, not word for word) 

    To me, It was WWE’s way of acknowledging their problems, saying they’re well aware of any criticisms thrown their way, and if WWE’s history has proven anything they just go about business as usual. WWE letting Punk cut a promo like that was basically saying to the IWC “we know you hate our product but too bad we’re not changing so deal with it.”  

    This great promo will be nothing more then a clip for a compilation DVD down the road. 

    What’s even worse is everything Punk said probably went right over the casual audience’s head, (they did boo him). Which makes me believe even more that that promo was directed at the internet wrestling community.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AL6ADN5J3UXVHHOSRGNDM7XBCI realslimshadowen

    Occasionally, WWE does something really right.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ULUK3HNFCHM6ZAJOVACZ3YQDZA Hathor Liderc

    That was an actual promo!?

    It came off as Punk just ranting.

    • Anonymous

      That was the whole idea, to make it sound like a rant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=762977523 Anonymous

    Spoony come back and recap Impact.  Destination X looks to be pretty good.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jamesrberry James Berry

    Really fucking good.
    Wrestlewrestle made me a fan of the Spoony one, I hope you can do more wrestlewrestle reviews soon!

  • http://twitter.com/FinnishPhenom Mikko Laurinen

    They’re really working it with all they have, even takig Punk of WWE.com and taking down his facebook page. They’re really trying to sucker smarks to buy it. Personally, I don’t, but I AM fairly cynical. lol

  • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

    This is the type of thing that should change the landscape of the wrestling. Austin’s 3:16 promo, the Shane Douglas “They can all kiss my ass” promo, sprang to my mind when I heard Punk speak. Fine It was probably all cleared but I think it would be silly to assume there wasn’t some genuine emotion behind a lot of what he said. In 6 minutes Punk has done more to sell a match more then Cena could with 4 shows worth of 15 minute scripted in ring “poopy” jokes and sucking up to the WWE “Universe”.

    Having said that I remember thinking that the Nexus debuting and destroying everything would change the WWE but that just lead up to Cena squashing everyone who ever wore a yellow and black shirt. 

    WWE need to take off the reigns on this and let it play out as organically as it possible, If it means turning Cena heel and have Punk as a lone rebel tearing down the WWE so be it. The worst thing for this to lead to is Cena getting another win he doesn’t need to extend his stagnating Face dominance. If Cena is going to win have him cheat with Vince’s help or better yet put Triple H in Vince’s old role of non wrestling badguy and have him cheat giving Punk a reason to come back, Austin wasn’t a black and white good guy until months after he won the title (even hit JR with a Stunner) so Punk could become a sort of counter culture anti hero. With this story you could have Zack Ryder start to fight the H’s new dominance because he keeps getting screwed over despite building himself up despite no TV time to speak of.  

    Superstars, ECW, NXT are all off TV in the US for the most part, Smackdown’s ratings are dropping to the point Impact is close to overtaking (like chasing somebody up a hill only to have them trip over and roll back down) a show that once used to get more viewers then Raw, PPV buy rates are dropping massively (Over the Limit had just 65,000). If Vince wants this company to carry on beyond his death he NEEDS to take a chance. Just use this as a platform to build something on rather then just to build up a throwaway feud for a throwaway PPV before Cena dominates and goes back to saluting and hollering soulless corporate praising promo’s and embarrassingly juvenile bad jokes. 

  • Anonymous

    The information I’ve gathered stated that WWE allowed CM Punk to go out and do his heel thing, and explain why he’s leaving. They let him write everything, they let him say what he wanted to say, and they made sure they’d cut his mic if he went off the deep end, which they did. This was a controlled shoot.

  • Anonymous

    This was a great little piece, so much like the Joey Styles ‘rant’ leading to ECW. Even the WWE posting he was let go and then reinstated added to the drama with very little time needed. CM Punk could easily now be WWE’s best villain and well on his way to being their best hero (The same way Edge, Stone Cold, Bret Hart and Triple H did).

    However, the VERY stupid “If Cena loses, he’s fired” angle pretty much guarantees that CM Punk will lose and just disappear, thus killing the suspense and drama right at the start. After easily THE BEST promo on a WWE show in months…maybe years…they ruined it with a stupid stipulation that completely gives away the end.

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t seen a promo that good since Bret Hart’s WCW rant in ’99 when he called out Goldberg, then ‘quit’. I honestly didn’t think any of the newer school guys could be any good on the mic. This surprised me greatly.

    • Anonymous

      Frankly I felt the MSNBC interview when his brother died was probably the best as far as Brett Hart’s concerned because he blamed the world on us the fans and Vince Mcmahn and Stone Cold Steve Austin while his mother was dead silent letting Brett Hart rant his head off. Brett Hart did his alot of things close to home which I at times do partially agree with but not completely. I don’t see the wrestlers as being ‘circus monkies’ as he put it in the interview and I don’t usually expect them to get hurt for ‘my amusement’ as he put it. I just expect a good show and nothing more. What still gets me is he becomes hypocritical by saying ‘I’m not going back’ only to go back to WCW then return to WWE years later when he said ‘i’m done, i’m not comeing back and the fans areas much fault as Vince is’.

  • Anonymous

    As I said on FACEBOOK on a person posting a similar thing to this I feel CM PUNK needed to do more research. Brock Lesnar was given a contract renewal but he told Vince to go stick it and go over to UFC while Paul Haymen went to do the ECW thing only to go over to do his radio show gig. If CM Punk was trully a ‘Paul Hayman guy’ as CM quoted why didn’t he drop out when Paul Hayman drop out like what people like RVD, Sabu, and Sandman did until RVD Sabu and Sandman went over to TNA instead of sticking with the WWE and be unhappy about it and come on out this past Monday and whine bitch moan and complain over what Vince is doing and how people like Rock and Cena are kissing Vinces ass to be #1. CM Punk frankly needs to look in the mirror and say ‘hyprocrit’ since he chose to stay with the WWE when he’s a ‘Paul Hayman guy’ and Paul Hayman left for similar reasons to why CM Punk is leaving.

    • Anonymous

      The reason for the ‘Paul Heyman’ guy line was because Paul is the ONLY reason Punk got into the WWE. Vince and Stephanie HATED Punk. He was too small, too opinionated and honestly reminded people a BIT too much about WWE’s steroid past. If you remember, after Heyman left, McMahon tried to put BOBBY FRICKIN’ LASHEY up as the ‘superhero’ of ECW, even going as far as to feud with Lashey himself to build his hero status.

      …oh course, that bombed horribly and lead to the complete collapse of ECW soon afterward…

      RVD did stick around after Heyman left, but constantly getting busted on drug charges (ala Jeff Hardy) eventually lead to him leaving (being asked to get out). Sandman’s time was pretty much over to begin with and Sabu…Sabu has never been the most reliable wrestler. CM Punk had just got in and starting to build his career. It was his chance to show the McMahons he was that damned good.

      And he did. He is almost EXACTLY what he said he was, the best wrestler in the WWE. However, because he is not an Adonis nor kiss anyone’s ass, ever…he was never truly a front-runner in the company. Even his title reigns were either short or quickly marred with bits to weaken him.

      This promo is Punk at his best, able to cut loose on a mic and not only tell the truth but put himself over as both both right, real and a heel. In ONE FRICKIN’ PROMO he developed himself as a true and very dangerous threat to Cena while selling to the whole world he was honest and no longer ‘on the script’. With this, the WWE could have made the match in Chicago seem to have real drama, something WWE has not been able to do AT ALL of late.

      • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

        How could you not push a guy who comes up with such great promos as this?
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loIYBd1k3kU

        Clearly the equal to Punks Monday night effort Im sure you will agree :)

        • Anonymous

          Bathturd?

      • Anonymous

        (The reason for the ‘Paul Heyman’ guy line was because Paul is the ONLY reason Punk got into the WWE. Vince and Stephanie HATED Punk. He was too small, too opinionated and honestly reminded people a BIT too much about WWE’s steroid past. If you remember, after Heyman left, McMahon tried to put BOBBY FRICKIN’ LASHEY up as the ‘superhero’ of ECW, even going as far as to feud with Lashey himself to build his hero status….oh course, that bombed horribly and lead to the complete collapse of ECW soon afterward…RVD did stick around after Heyman left, but constantly getting busted on drug charges (ala Jeff Hardy) eventually lead to him leaving (being asked to get out). Sandman’s time was pretty much over to begin with and Sabu…Sabu has never been the most reliable wrestler. CM Punk had just got in and starting to build his career. It was his chance to show the McMahons he was that damned good.)

        I see. I know about the Bobby Lashley thing but Bobby was suppose to make a return but however from what i’ve heard Bobby was fired for some radnom reason. My guess is drugs perhaps because I remember Bobby Lashley was smokeing a cigar while they were doing the NEW ECW VS WWE plot line.

        I can believe the RVD issue because I heard RVD was arrested for a DUI which Hayman and Sabu were part of at one point. However I do question THE WRONG SIDE OF TOWN (or whatever the hell the name of it is starring RVD and Batista) cuz it seemed like it came out shortly after the collapse and before Batista leaving. Now about Sabu: I remember reading on the WWE website concerning I believe a ECW PPV or something and it seemed like Paul Hayman was more backing Sabu than anything else. The reason why is apparently in a main event it was suppose to be Sabu VS RVD and Paul was acting like he didn’t want to have that match card as the article says since the both of them were to valuble to him and hayman was afraid of haveing something bad happen to the both of them. However RVD was telling Hayman to give the go ahead but yet Hayman refused. It wound up (if I remember reading the article  right) RVD walking out so the match got cancelled. But however despite their differances it seemed like Sabu, Sandman, RVD were all friends with Paul Hayman and enjoyed getting arrested for being drunk.

        I can tottally see where your comming from with CM PUNK and I tottally agree with what was said. I’d be one to admit it but I’m sorry to see Punk go regardless if what he said was scripted yay or nay.

        • Anonymous

          Bobby Lashey reportedly left due to comments made by Micheal Hayes, ex-Fabulous Freebird and a WWE creative writer for Smackdown at the time. While there is very little known proof or evidence, what WAS reported that the comments were racial in nature. Why in Cthulhu’s name would you mouth off to an ex-military policeman Lashley’s size is beyond me, but this is one of the main reasons Lashley went to ECW and eventually left the company. Other reasons given (mostly in theory) are injuries (which he had quite a few) and steriod use…but since he was never caught and Vince has always been a bit soft on that, somehow I doubt that was it.

          As for Sabu…’sigh’….ok, Sabu has a history of missing shows and making plans elsewhere when he’s contracted to do a match. This happened a few times back in ECW, the most famous one where Heyman FIRED Sabu live on the air. No, not a work…he really did fire him. I think a year later he re-hired him, but he was PISSED. Now I don’t know the article of which you speak (no wrestling magazines come to where I live now.), but that sounds about right. Despite whatever problems and issues people have with Heyman, that man generates loyalty like no other.

          If CM Punk was older, he would have been one of the highest-tier players in ECW.

          • kidcoyote_anarchy

            I thought Lashley left because of the mistreatment & firing of his fiance (at the time), WWE diva, Kristal Marshall (? Name). And the racial thing was between Michael Hayes & Mark Henry. Then again it’s been awhile since this all went down so I could be wrong.

          • Anonymous

            Christ! Yeah, I think you’re right. It’s so hard to nail down news like this because it doesn’t stay around long.

  • Anonymous

    I really don’t understand the “debate” over whether this was a work or a shoot.  It was, obviously, a complete work.  Two things make this obvious: First, Punk badmouthed his fans to maintain his Heel status.  That is the ULTIMATE giveaway.  But if you want more proof… this was the only time I can remember, EVER, where the Copyright Information that appears at the end of the show went on right at 11pm, as opposed to as Raw was going off the air.  They knew they were going to be ending abruptly by cutting the mic, and then the camera (after, of course, giving USA time to prep the next show, which is why there was about 15 seconds between the two).  So yes, this was all cleared, and it was all prepared, most likely even down to when, exactly, they cut the mic.  Having worked in production, I’m willing to bet the exact line “Let me tell you a personal story about Vince McMahon” was the cue from Punk to cut his mic.

    That being said, I’m willing to bet (or at the very least, pray) that the work goes deeper.  Punk is in position to be the biggest heel (and IWC hero) the WWE has seen in years, and I don’t see WWE putting this much work and TV time into a wrestler who is leaving.  Just to get a bump in buy rates for what will most likely be a successful PPV just based on the MITB gimmick alone?  I doubt it.  I am hoping beyond hope that Punk is not, in fact, leaving, and has a handshake agreement to resign after the PPV.  Punk is the kind of old-school kayfabe worker who would spend weeks, even months building up the idea he was leaving, even to the smart marks and IWC through his Twitter and whatnot, just to give the storyline some validity and to get the cheap pop out of us that he did with this promo.  Remember, this is the guy whose entire gimmick was to piss on ROH’s entire gimmick, just to piss off the fans who thought they were smarter than the business.  If we are lucky, this entire thing is a work, and Punk will be back on Raw the night after Money In The Bank.  If not… well, he might be the only thing worth checking out in ROH or TNA very shortly.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Moore/817077660 Ron Moore

       I don’t think there’s any debate at all, and if there was, it didn’t last longer than a day or two.  I guess the question from most people was how much of it was an actually work.  Anyway, if there so happened to be any more doubt, Smackdown easily confirmed it last night just by recapping the event.

  • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO
  • http://twitter.com/MailOrderClone MailOrderClone

    One thing in retrospect, looking back at this promo now after about a week.  This really is the promo that Impact Wrestling wishes they could pull off.  Hell, it’s the sort of thing they’ve tried, unsuccessfully, to do on several occasions.  A promo that feels real as you’re watching it, using elements of backstage politicking to add some extra kick, delivered in a sharp and effective manner, while still managing to get the match over and sell the PPV.  People want to see CM Punk now.  They want to see him wrestle for the title, and they want to see if he can win it, and they want to see if he’ll actually make good on his word and leave with the belt.

    Every one of them knows deep down that pro wrestling is scripted and predetermined.  This was a moment where, for a moment, they could actually buy that the events shown and the opinions presented were genuine.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Moore/817077660 Ron Moore

       I was just saying this the other day.  Vince Russo has tried the worked shoot so many times and failed every attempt.  It took WWE 6 minutes to blow all of his attempts out of the water (again).

    • Anonymous

      I totally agree MailOrderClone. Despite hateing what he said it just sounded so damn real that it’s not even funny. Funny you mentioned Total Nonstop Action or impact wrestling (if they are the same thing) because I do find their promos equally lame and retarded. The guys do try to sell themselves but I swear from what ive been hearing at times they totally epic fail and Im like WTF.

      Odd thing now is on Monday it seems CMP is tottally out of the picture now and is to be replaced with either Rey Mysterio, Alberto, or R-Truth.

  • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO
  • http://www.facebook.com/Panzergoob Jon Fite

    You know, this angle has gotten me legitimately excited for RAW this week. I’ve actually been anxious for RAW to come around. If the IWC wants to see good angles like this more often, they need to eat this shit up and show McMahon that there’s money in promoting wrestlers like Punk. WWE is throwing you a bone, do yourselves a favor and eat it.

  • http://twitter.com/DoodTheMan Dante Alberti

    I think it really helps that WWE, for decades, just neglected all other wrestling companies, as if they were the only wrestling show on the planet, and now Punk just comes out and offers to go to ROH and IWGP.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Dear.wHATEver Borislav Elinov

    i want spoonys thoughts on this!

  • Anonymous

    “Oops, I’m breaking the 4th wall *waves*” amazing.. lol

  • http://twitter.com/Squall409 Jon Defiler

    This CM Punk thing has you guessing what’s going to happen until Vince threatens to fire Cena.  I really do hope Punk wins, even if he’s going to have to job out directly after to whoever wins the ladder match.  If PUNK LEAVES as champ, not if Cena loses.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruno-Miguel-Barreto-Freitas/568513794 Bruno Miguel Barreto Freitas

    Punk is awesome theres nothing else I can say xD

  • Anonymous

    Well the next Raw is in, Cena gets CM Punk back on the ticket and we’re on…with that stupid stipulation that if Cena loses, he’s also fired. So unfortunately the best promo Raw has seen in YEARS becomes another push for Cena to FINALLY silence all the people booing him (good luck there, pal).

    Cena, you want people to stop booing you? Go back to the bad-ass rapper-wannabe version of yourself. At least then you were entertaining….

    However I want this on record now: If Cena DOES lose the match, my respect for him will go up one point. If anything, this seems like a sure-fire win for Cena no matter what…but to drop a match that costs the WWE a title belt AND take the heat for in publicly AFTER you ASKED for that match? Yeah, I’d respect the balls it takes to swallow that. Plus, you would actually make CM Punk a MAJOR threat now. He just destroyed not only a title belt, but the most powerful one in the company.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Moore/817077660 Ron Moore

      My bet is (as well as a few others) is that Punk wins the belt, because at this point he almost has to for them to save face.  But, I’m betting that right after he wins, one of the MITB winners cashes in, keeping Punk from leaving with the belt.  The only question from that point will be if they go through with “firing” Cena again, and sticking with it for more than a week.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Panzergoob Jon Fite

    I’m starting to suspect a Wrestlemania 17 style finish here. As in, McMahon interfering to screw over one of them and either way would work for me.

  • Anonymous

    So CM Punk is actually going to compete in the match after all. I am honestly not surprised. Honestly I agree with Cena that CM Punk did earn the #1 contender spot. Besides it seemed like Cena was right that people do want to see the match and to maybe see CM Punk Stufu Cena and the WWE since it seems like some people are already backing CM Punk. However what I question is is Alberto Del Rio going to be involved to make it a triple threat match since (and as Cena put it:) “he earned it” since he competed against Rey Mysterio and R-TRuth? If they snub Alberto Del Rio I am going to be mad because Cena played the “he earned it” angle to get CM Punk to fight Cena in Punk’s final WWE match so why don’t they play that same angle for Alberto Del Rio. It’s a win win for Vince anyway. If Del Rio wins: Alberto is new champion and title stays with WWE. If Cena wins: Cena retains title and title stays in WWE.

    • http://twitter.com/Saronard Leo Schrey

      Of course was it all planned out. And now they build up Cena even more by making him just more like Jesus with having him say he respects Punk for what he said and bla bla bla.Punk may win the title and loses it afterwards to the Ladder Match winner (btw. there are two Money in the Bank ladder matches nowadays? Oh, come on, fuck that shit.) before he can leave the city, it’s just so obvious by the exact wording used.But that could turn out interesting if Punk stays in the WWE AND if Cena fucking finally turns heel, that would be eventually something great. I expect to get highly disappointed anyways.And the WWE missed out a good plot element by not having Truth win the No. 1 contender Match and then having him screwed out because Punk got reinstated. But no, no, no, just like the “I want my son back”-plotpoint (which I thought was a nice idea that was never mentioned again) it won’t go anywhere.

  • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

    Not strictly Punk related but is anyone else getting annoyed at the anti Rock band wagon thats cropping up? Cena, Punk and Beth are tweeting about how Rock has no passion because he’s not around all the time. Its annoying me a lot because as much as I miss Rocky Im glad he’s not like Hogan and his ilk who just hang around and take all the main event spots from young up and comers. 
    If The Rock was still wrestling would Cena be at the level he is now or would he just be a frustrated upper-mid carder waiting for his break?

    • Anonymous

      Thank You! Someone said what I’ve been thinking this whole time. I’m glad Rock backed away and let the younger generation step their game up. If he had stayed half these guys wouldn’t even be in the spotlight right now. He stayed for a decent amount of time and when the time came he put over the newcomer (Goldberg) and bowed out gracefully as a wrestler should. I fully understand why he isn’t showing up full-time; he’d overshadow everyone then he’d have deal with all the new wrestlers resenting him taking their spotlight.

      Poor guy can’t win. He stays people call him gloryhog…..he leaves they call him a sell-out and a traitor.

      • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

        He also gave Lesnar a huge win at Summer Slam

    • http://twitter.com/weeble3131 james olver

      well the big problem that the rock has right now is he did stand in the ring. and make the statement that he is here to stay. like he looked into the camera and made it personal to every fan that he wasnt going anywhere. i personally dont really care who does what as long as its compelling on the promo end. and solid on the wrestling end. now that being said cena did kinda school the rock on the promo side last time when cena and the rock were having what seemed like a personal promo and cena was calling the rock out saying his heart wasnt with wrestling and such and such and all the rock could respond with was a stuttered ohh yeah well im still gonna kick your ass. c mon mr best promo guy ever dont tell me thats all you could respond with. any who ive said enough. yes its good he left when he did. but dont come on tv and tell all the fans you love em and miss em and your here to stay then dont even have a match since

      • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

        He is having a match, even if it is against an opponent I have no interest in, His video was hardly a stuttered “Im going to kick your ass” he basically pointed out that Cena was at every show because he was paid so its not like John is doing it entirely for nothing, and he also accused Cena of being a phony and full of bullshit and Rock has already done what Cena has and done it better. People shortchange Rocky but not only is he one of the three biggest names in modern Wrestling he also had to compete with Stone Cold arguably the biggest drawing Wrestler of all time.

        I wish all my old favourites could wrestle forever but the fact is you can only do so much before your body starts to fall apart and I don’t see why people should get mad at The Rock because he left at the top in good health and doesn’t want to go full time in a period of creative stagnation. 

        Cena started his comments to the Rock years before this feud started I just find it funny that Rock is about to give John his first truly memorable Wrestlemania main event.   

    • kidcoyote_anarchy

      It’s WWE’s way of keeping the Rock/Cena WM match going without devoting air time to it. It gives those internet wrestling news sites a story to post. 

      I couldn’t care less what Cena says to Rock or vice versa unless it happens on TV. All of WWE talents’ Twitter accounts are monitored by WWE and is nothing but pushing the TV storyline. I ignore all of it. I’ll just have to wait to see what WWE does for WM with Cena/Rock. Until then I don’t care.

      As far as WWE’s product goes if it doesn’t happen on TV/PPV it doesn’t matter in the end.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Schrader/788849987 Adam Schrader

    Truly a historic promo – even the background events are historic. Name another time Cena actually sold a beating for 4 minutes. Hell, 4 seconds is usually pushing it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Leuchtmann/580156441 Mike Leuchtmann

    I’m watching this PPV, specifically because of CM Punk.  

    On a side note, anyone else notice how little energy they’re putting into the Christian-Orton match? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/Panzergoob Jon Fite

    Well, tonight’s the night. I hope the PPV buy rates go up significantly to prove to Vince that wrestling fans are still a good market.

  • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

    This a make or break one tbh. The WWE have been handed gold on a silver plate (What? thats a thing?) If they screw this up and just carry on doing the same old stuff doesn’t it just mean its time to just give up? Cena/Miz I quit match nearly ended it for me but come on its due time for WWE to get good 

  • http://twitter.com/Saronard Leo Schrey

    That just was.. the best PPV…no, no.. thing.. I have ever.. ever… seen on TV..

    But.. is Cena fired now? Once again.. Can’t wait for Raw tomorrow.. finally: Wrestling is great again!

  • Anonymous

    Holy shit CM Punk won. This is crazy. This whole pay-per-view was surprisingly good. Can’t wait to see what happens on Raw.

  • http://twitter.com/RavenFeare Raven Feare

    I like how they took the three most common predictions and say “lolnope” to them.
    Cena’s just gonna flat win? Nope
    Montreal-Screwjob esque ending? Almost.
    MitB? Nope again.
    Easily the best PPV of the year and honestly it’s all because of Punk.
    It was also nice to see someone else being made look invincible for a change. I had my doubts that Punk was really going to leave (even for a short period of time) but I honestly don’t think they would’ve put him over that much (not even counting the win) if he wasn’t re-signed.

  • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

    They didn’t have the balls to turn Cena Heel but I cannot remember the last time I felt like this after watching a PPV.
    Punk beat Cena, Daniel Bryan won a title shot, Christian wins the WHC. 
    People can call Wrestling “Fake” and slag me off as a nerd but its for times like this that I continue to watch.  

    • http://twitter.com/RavenFeare Raven Feare

      Can’t really turn Cena heel right now, I think he needs to have surgery done so having him “fired” presents the perfect opportunity to take him out of action for a while.

      Who knows maybe when he comes back (if he does take a break) he’ll come back as a heel due to the events of tonight. They have a few angles they could use to heel-turn him though, or at least start/prepare for it. The crowd was mostly behind Punk tonight so that gives Cena’s character to become less about the plans. Using Vince’s actions with the Montreal Screwjob-esque scene could be used as motivation to turn Cena anti-corp again.

      • http://twitter.com/SolidGoldCEO SolidGoldCEO

        Don’t get me wrong Im surprised they didn’t have Punk tap out and then shake Cena’s hand before leaving

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Schrader/788849987 Adam Schrader

        Unless it’s like the last time he was “fired”, where he’s still on the show every week destroying 5 guys at once.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Schrader/788849987 Adam Schrader

          Never mind, they’re not even doing that much.. oh well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alchron Douglas Higgins

    You know what?  That was quite refreshing to see a shoot like that.

  • Anonymous

    I’m only posting this because I feel dirty minded seeing “69 comments” below the heading. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1112764270 Lydia Keller Beam

    I fuckin love CM Punk. <3

  • Anonymous

    Are we sure that this isn’t a fake shoot?

    He seems to be trying awfully hard to play the heel.

  • Anonymous

    Hehe. There are a couple of options to go for here: 1) the entire speech was a fake shoot (oxymoron) TNA-style (although done much better than TNA has ever done it, thankyou, Hulk Hogan), 2) the entire speech was real and they kept the mike on because him venting his frustrations was perfect to play up the angle, 3) the first part of the speech was fake, and then he got into it and went off script, at which point they cut his mike. 

    Personally, I think I’ll take option 3. Was still hilarious though. At least this was actually entertaining (hello, TNA, this is how you do this sort of angle and make it interesting!). What I find totally ironic is the fact that badmouthing the company and playing the rebellious heel is absolutely fine but talking about Vince is just crossing the line. If he really was off-script I wonder what story he was going to tell…     

  • http://www.facebook.com/BlueWaffle1929 Joshua Reese

    I would like to think that this shoot was totally real, but at the same time I know it’s most likely a worked shoot. I say this because WWE has been pretty good at doing worked shoot promos and this is no exception. Punk probably did have legitimate gripes and they let him just vent them but they could only let it go to a point.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAejzGu0iA

    The first minute and 5 seconds.