Punk's Promo

[CM Dazz]

That was a thing of beauty. The best promo not only by CM Punk, but of anyone in the WWE in a long time. It put Punk, the PPV, & the feud over, and more importantly it not only put the title over, it put the length of his title run over too.

That right there is how you do it. It was intense without being overly dramatic. It was serious without being boring. Best of all, it really showed Punk's dedication to this business, and the championship he holds.

All wrestlers at any skill level should watch that promo. Someone should pass that video around the writers room too...

[Yami Daimao]

I wouldn't say it was the best. It was definitely solid and did what it was suppose to do; put everything over. But it wasn't spectacular. It was fine.

Punk has delivered much better and more intense promos before.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

It was a good promo, but he didn't say anything new in particular.

[ricardob]

The promo was awesome and intense.

[sunnytaker]

i do like how punk/rock promos are actually serious when talking about each other (rock saves all the rock-esque putdowns for vickie and heyman pretty much except for the cookiepuss comment- but hey rock's just trying to get the guy an endorsement deal- worked for the last guy).

much better than the kiddie-esque taunting we suffered through for much of the rock/cena feud. granted shorter time frame may play into this with both matches builds.

[molson5]

I like Punk much more when he's not making inside references to Tyson Kidd's hard work and such. He's a great traditional heel, especially with Heyman. He doesn't need the crutch of pandering to "smart" fans to get some cheers and increase his overall crowd reaction.

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Jan 22, 2013 14:35:49 GMT -5 Yami Daimao said:

I wouldn't say it was the best. It was definitely solid and did what it was suppose to do; put everything over. But it wasn't spectacular. It was fine.

Punk has delivered much better and more intense promos before.

I agree with this. Punk's raised the bar for himself though. CM Punk's "fine" is Kofi Kingston's dream promo.

[BigWill]

Jan 22, 2013 14:53:12 GMT -5 molson5 said:

I like Punk much more when he's not making inside references to Tyson Kidd's hard work and such. He's a great traditional heel, especially with Heyman. He doesn't need the crutch of pandering to "smart" fans to get some cheers and increase his overall crowd reaction.

You know very little about Punk if you think he tries to get cheered by "smarks".

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Jan 22, 2013 14:53:12 GMT -5 molson5 said:

I like Punk much more when he's not making inside references to Tyson Kidd's hard work and such. He's a great traditional heel, especially with Heyman. He doesn't need the crutch of pandering to "smart" fans to get some cheers and increase his overall crowd reaction.

If you recall, the same promo where he talked up Tyson Kidd was the one where he blew the cover off of the "voice of the voiceless", admitting he created a rebel persona that he knew would play the fans like a fiddle. It was part of him demonstrating just that "they're doin it again Paul!" At the same time though, it's played as though it's how he really feels, which gives it another layer.

I do love it when he's cutting a straight up wrestling promo though. The one he did responding to The Rock was so, so good.

[BigJerichool222]

He said the same thing over and over and over; He likes the title and The Rock likes the people. And he dragged it on much longer than it had to be. It seemed as if his promo was going somewhere but it never did. It was just the same point told in different ways for like 5 minutes.

[Bub (BLM)]

I'm a biased supporter of everything Punk does, but even I thought the promo was a bit boring. His delivery was very slow and his words were par for the course heel champion stuff. It reminded me of 2008-2010 Chris Jericho. I still think the promo he cut a couple weeks ago where he just ripped into WWE, the fans, and his own babyface persona was much better.

[The Ichi]

It was a bit too heel HHH for my liking.

[thirteen3]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBbdh1HHKc
Linking to WWE videos- okay. Embedding them from a non-WWE source- bad. Don't do this. ~PKS

loved it. Very reminiscent of this. So unlike Punk, Harley gets more to the point here.

I'm calling it, punk is gonna put out a hit on The Rock after the rumble.

[Professor Chaos]

Jan 22, 2013 15:55:07 GMT -5 BigJerichool222 said:

He said the same thing over and over and over; He likes the title and The Rock likes the people. And he dragged it on much longer than it had to be. It seemed as if his promo was going somewhere but it never did. It was just the same point told in different ways for like 5 minutes.

This is my thoughts exactly. Punk is my favorite and this still blew away any promo Cena ever did tho.

[Johawn]

Jan 22, 2013 16:08:34 GMT -5 thirteen3 said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBbdh1HHKc

loved it. Very reminiscent of this. So unlike Punk, Harley gets more to the point here.

Exactly what popped into my head watching it.

[molson5]

Jan 22, 2013 15:39:31 GMT -5 BigWill said:

Jan 22, 2013 14:53:12 GMT -5 molson5 said:

I like Punk much more when he's not making inside references to Tyson Kidd's hard work and such. He's a great traditional heel, especially with Heyman. He doesn't need the crutch of pandering to "smart" fans to get some cheers and increase his overall crowd reaction.

You know very little about Punk if you think he tries to get cheered by "smarks".

If he was trying to get booed by those fans he'd use a much different approach.