"This is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque"

[The Rick Jericho]

Who groaned when they heard this live on Raw almost 7 years ago?

In the midst of the promo they decided to go "worked-shoot" mode.

Was this too much?

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

That was sooooooooooo bad.

I love both guys, but that line was amazingly bad.

[Deleted]

We still make fun of that line here, it was that lame.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Yeah, that is CRINGEY as f***.

[lildude8218]

This is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque.

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

They should do this in every feud.

"This is Leati Anoa'i talking to Franklin Lashley."

[Mister Pigwell]

I was fine with it personally because it's still within kayfabe that they use stage names sometimes.

One of Punk's best strengths I feel was these worked shoots that just barely fall in the lines of kayfabe and can be explained within the in-universe narrative still.

There's this sweetspot where he and Heyman (usually) knew where to fall into, as opposed to say late WCW that couldn't figure it out.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Yeah, Phil and Paul can talk to each other in the back and get the eff off my screen.

[Deleted]

I liked it. The feeling I got was that the feud became more personal, so he resorted to personal names.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Ya know I think it works cause CM Punk and Triple H are clearly nottheir names

[bob]

I have no recollection of this

[Deleted]

Yeah it was too far lol.

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

2011 was a bad year in the sense that the shooty bullshit we get now got a major start then.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

"This isn't Mr. Belding talking to Zack Morris, this is Dennis Haskins talking to Mark-Paul Gosselaar!"

[Deleted]

Shit was dumb.

[Deleted]

Jun 27, 2018 20:22:13 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

"This isn't Mr. Belding talking to Zack Morris, this is Dennis Haskins talking to Mark-Paul Gosselaar!"

"This is Mario Lopez talking to Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Last night at the movies you went too far."

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

This isn't Gus RAWchlen talking to (INSERT POSTER HERE), this is Gustav David Richlen talking to... uh....

F***.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

That useless program killed the biggest babyface run in years, a run that received mainstream attention. Punk has every right to resent being fed to Triple H for nothing. The worst part was that Punk never got his win back.

Well at least it produced this line that probably still haunts Triple H to this day when Punk quit, "No offense but you need this match I don't. You need to work with me, I don't need to work with you."

[Deleted]

I thought it was incredibly stupid.

Really in general I found Punk absurdly unlikable during that Triple H feud.

[Deleted]

It sounded like a what a nerd would say once he wikipedia'd WWE wrestlers.