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Post by Rave on Aug 27, 2018 7:46:40 GMT -5
What's the background on the fur coat and gold chains story? I've seen it referenced, but I've never heard the original story behind it. The dirtsheets used to love making up stories of CM Punk getting NUCLEAR HEAT because they were easy to make up, believable because Punk's Punk, and the dude would always drive clicks any time his name showed up. One particularly egregious one talked about how he showed up backstage wearing gold chains and a fur coat, and I want to say it involved people getting mad because he was "dressing like a champion" when he wasn't champ, but that might be another newz story I'm getting it confused with. IIRC, the "dressing like a champion" newz bit was later than that, I'm wanting to say ECW, and that it was the other way around. I remember another dev!Punk newz bit that had him in the doghouse for, of all things, making out with then-girlfriend Maria Kanellis backstage too much.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Aug 27, 2018 8:30:17 GMT -5
The winner of this situation was Atlas DaBone because he's now married to Layla. So its safe to assume that Layla is getting DaBone on the regular?
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Aug 27, 2018 9:06:13 GMT -5
The dirtsheets used to love making up stories of CM Punk getting NUCLEAR HEAT because they were easy to make up, believable because Punk's Punk, and the dude would always drive clicks any time his name showed up. One particularly egregious one talked about how he showed up backstage wearing gold chains and a fur coat, and I want to say it involved people getting mad because he was "dressing like a champion" when he wasn't champ, but that might be another newz story I'm getting it confused with. Lol that is the most random thing I've ever heard. Gold chains, I could believe, but a fur coat? It's friggin' CM Punk! If I remember correctly, the truth was that he was wearing Joey Mercury's entrance gear as a joke. Somehow that blew up into Punk sincerely wearing fur and chains, when it was really just a guy joking around wearing his buddy's gimmick.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Aug 27, 2018 9:58:39 GMT -5
The dirtsheets used to love making up stories of CM Punk getting NUCLEAR HEAT because they were easy to make up, believable because Punk's Punk, and the dude would always drive clicks any time his name showed up. One particularly egregious one talked about how he showed up backstage wearing gold chains and a fur coat, and I want to say it involved people getting mad because he was "dressing like a champion" when he wasn't champ, but that might be another newz story I'm getting it confused with. IIRC, the "dressing like a champion" newz bit was later than that, I'm wanting to say ECW, and that it was the other way around. I remember another dev!Punk newz bit that had him in the doghouse for, of all things, making out with then-girlfriend Maria Kanellis backstage too much. I want to say they were different stories at different times; I remember his issue with the dress code and that allegedly being what cost him the title or some shit, but he was also catching shit for dressing 'bigger than he deserved' with the chains and coat on a separate occasion. There was a lot of material to cover there, nuclear doghouse Punk newz was an entire industry for a while. I think the Maria stuff was actually even main roster too; I want to say they were "caught" making out in the hotel lobby or something during Mania weekend by Vince himself. Allegedly.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 27, 2018 10:00:41 GMT -5
I miss the days when we had a weekly story of Punk been in the dog house for something stupid.
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Post by thirteen3 on Aug 27, 2018 10:06:36 GMT -5
I miss the days when we had a weekly story of Punk been in the dog house for something stupid. And if it wasn't Punk it was Paul London and Brian Kendrick.
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Aug 27, 2018 10:12:16 GMT -5
IIRC, the "dressing like a champion" newz bit was later than that, I'm wanting to say ECW, and that it was the other way around. I remember another dev!Punk newz bit that had him in the doghouse for, of all things, making out with then-girlfriend Maria Kanellis backstage too much. I want to say they were different stories at different times; I remember his issue with the dress code and that allegedly being what cost him the title or some shit, but he was also catching shit for dressing 'bigger than he deserved' with the chains and coat on a separate occasion. There was a lot of material to cover there, nuclear doghouse Punk newz was an entire industry for a while. I think the Maria stuff was actually even main roster too; I want to say they were "caught" making out in the hotel lobby or something during Mania weekend by Vince himself. Allegedly. I want to say the Maria thing was while Punk was still in OVW. He was Maria's date for the Hall of Fame and Linda McMahon had to make a comment about them not being in highschool.
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Post by Slanted and Enchanted on Aug 27, 2018 13:02:39 GMT -5
I miss the days when we had a weekly story of Punk been in the dog house for something stupid. The best part is that half of those stories were true based on the BITW DVD
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 27, 2018 13:09:27 GMT -5
No 'seems' about it. Before Triple H took it over, the developmental system was pretty damn dire. Some of the stories about DSW in particular...SMH. OVW was fine for awhile, but they had had a strained relationship once Johnny Ace took over as Talent Relations. OVW was it's own company and not owned by WWE, but they would get wrestlers the WWE liked under JR, but Johnny Ace caused a lot of issues by just doing whatever he wanted without telling Cornette or Danny Davis. Of course, once they replaced Lance Storm with Al Snow as the trainer that is when it went down hill (Nova talks about how much Trips hated Al) Of course, Corny has spoken at great length about it. (Language warning... obviously.)
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