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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 18, 2013 14:31:49 GMT -5
To be fair to Punk, he's stated on the Art of Wrestling about his shitty elbow drop. yeah, he said he started doing it worse and worse cuz people would constantly bitch at him about it. So is that the excuse Chavo Guerrero uses for his shitty frog splash?
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Post by A damn road sign on Dec 18, 2013 16:39:54 GMT -5
To be fair to Punk, he's stated on the Art of Wrestling about his shitty elbow drop. yeah, he said he started doing it worse and worse cuz people would constantly bitch at him about it. He sure showed them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 16:47:23 GMT -5
He's full of it too. It looked shitty in the beginning and it looks shitty now. It also looks shitty in exactly the same way. =P
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Dec 18, 2013 16:49:19 GMT -5
Only time it looked good was against Lesnar.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Dec 18, 2013 18:37:47 GMT -5
I usually don't really notice this kind of stuff, but yeah, it was especially bad on Raw.
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Post by Bear Skin Rug on Dec 18, 2013 18:45:09 GMT -5
Punk can put on some great, great matces, but he's never been a good technical wrestler.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 20:10:52 GMT -5
Didn't Savage develop hip problems because of doing the elbow splash the way he did? He did, and Punk has hip problems already, so probably not a good move for him to do. But, he did it the one time he was wearing the Macho Man gear, and that was right before he turned face, so he probably sees it as part of his identity as a babyface. It is, but I'd rather see him ditch it and bring back the bulldog after the knee in the corner, instead of that crappy clothesline.
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Post by Bootista on Dec 18, 2013 20:12:20 GMT -5
yeah, he said he started doing it worse and worse cuz people would constantly bitch at him about it. He sure showed them. They saw.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 18, 2013 20:16:54 GMT -5
It's weird, how for a guy who wasn't that great at most stuff, Test's elbow drop was pretty damn good.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 20:20:47 GMT -5
It's weird, how for a guy who wasn't that great at most stuff, Test's elbow drop was pretty damn good. CM Punk: The Anti-Test
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Post by BRV on Dec 18, 2013 20:25:04 GMT -5
I wrote the following on Oct. 7:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 20:39:18 GMT -5
Magnus over in TNA really drops the Macho Man Elbow perfectly.
Yeah -as far as Punk goes, its one of those moves that is awesome, right up until he jumps off the top turnbuckle.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Dec 18, 2013 20:50:51 GMT -5
Honestly, I've always thought it looks much better than the GTS.
But that's not saying much, since the GTS looks awful.
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on Dec 18, 2013 22:11:22 GMT -5
Punk can put on some great, great matces, but he's never been a good technical wrestler. It isn't his technique as much as its his inability to hit moves cleanly. He was always known for showing light with strikes, which is why I always wondered why he adopted a muai-thai moveset when coming to the big leagues.
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Post by 543Y2J on Dec 18, 2013 22:19:34 GMT -5
Only time it looked good was against Lesnar. His also did a good one to Mark Henry with a chair during their NODQ WWE Championship match, it looked brutal and he got plenty of height as well. It may have been the finish if I remember correctly...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 22:20:37 GMT -5
Punk can put on some great, great matces, but he's never been a good technical wrestler. It isn't his technique as much as its his inability to hit moves cleanly. He was always known for showing light with strikes, which is why I always wondered why he adopted a muai-thai moveset when coming to the big leagues. I think it was so he could have an identity in which he could fight/beat bigger guys, but not be the usual high-flyer, which he's not great at. To his credit, he's gotten much much better at making his strikes look good. He used to hit that high kick and the fans wouldn't even react because it looked bad. I distinctly remember a point in 2010 where I thought he had finally honed in his style, everything he did started looking more crisp.
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Post by Chip on Dec 18, 2013 22:29:31 GMT -5
Yeah, it looks terrible but I don't really care whilst it's a Savage tribute. If a move has good intentions behind it, such as a tribute to a late legend I don't really mind how bad it looks as long as I can tell what it is.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Dec 18, 2013 23:06:51 GMT -5
But what sort of tribute is it really if Punks makes it look like garbage? It's like paying tribute to Gandhi by kicking an orphan in the groin.
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Post by EyeofTyr on Dec 18, 2013 23:12:08 GMT -5
Punk can put on some great, great matces, but he's never been a good technical wrestler. It isn't his technique as much as its his inability to hit moves cleanly. He was always known for showing light with strikes, which is why I always wondered why he adopted a muai-thai moveset when coming to the big leagues. Besides the reasons already given, Punk has always been notoriously a thief of puro wrestlers' movesets, something he's admitted to and something Samoa Joe & he always had in common. For a long time Punk was riffing off of Mutoh's moveset in the indies, one of the reasons why he always tried his awful moonsault and did the shining wizard for a while. Near the end of his stay in the indies all the way through OVW and ECW, Punk lifted alot of his moveset from KENTA, not just the GTS. Alot of the striking combinations and maneuvers he used were signatures of KENTA's, some he still even busts out occasionally. So, that's likely the other reason for it. He's a big fan of puro and safe to say, given the way he's gushed about KENTA in the past, a big fan of KENTA.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 23:56:53 GMT -5
Be A Man(the Revenge of Macho's Ghost)
Huh CM Punk, Best in the World whatever they call you, I'm callin you out, you move thief
Hot diggity damn Punk you've got to knock it off My elbow used to be beast but you've made it soft Dropping bad elbows I seen ya making my elbow look worse than an STF from Cena I knew all along you were a move thief cause you've been stealing from everyone like Brodus seeing cookies Dude please your elbow drop is a joke Mine is like Pepsi and yours is worse than new Coke Come on that elbow drop couldn't beat Otunga, the lawyer But mine took out the Ultimate Warrior I had to drop it 5 times, but that's what it took the one that you dropped on Ambrose was so bad that I couldn't look CM Punk, get off of the top rope because when it comes to elbow drops, you're Jim Jones and I'm the Pope Cuz like Rodney Dangerfield you gets' no respect So come on Punk stop dropping the elbow and try something that might connect
Be a man Punk Come on don't be scared Your stealin' from Macho that's what I heard
Be a man Punk Come on don't be a chump I never thought CM would go out like a punk
Be a man Punk Come on don't be scared You're stealing from Macho that's what I heard
They call you the Best in the World don't make me laugh Cuz your moves are stolen and your elbow is trash Your moves are so weak and that I can't stand While my elbow will guarantee victory when I land Ya stealing man but there can be only one And when I see your weak elbow drop now there should be none I smell a thief is that you Punk Macho's going to retire you more times than Terry Funk You try to steal from me thinking that I'm dead But I'm going to unleash the madness all up in your head And once Macho is in your head you've lost The joke's on you so Punk you may as well steal the Berzerker toss and rack up the countout wins but you're probably too weak Steph said that you can barely even lift AJ Lee If you're stealing moves from me your a real chump but at least do it right and don't be a Punk.
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