Nosnorb
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Post by Nosnorb on Nov 5, 2023 20:02:21 GMT -5
Punk vs. Seth will main night one. Fulfilling boths guys wish to nain event a Wrestlemania. yes, I know 31, but I believe Rollins doesn't think it counts. kill 2 birds, one stone, and make money. Punk said that there is only one main event and its the match that goes on last. And judging by his ego, the final match of the last night is the only main event in his eyes. Dude is not going to be satisfied with taking on Rollins for a belt he sees as a consolation prize. It's him taking on Roman for the Undisputed that he wants.
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Post by firsttimelongtime on Nov 5, 2023 20:24:03 GMT -5
Can’t wait. Will be awesome
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Nov 5, 2023 20:39:33 GMT -5
Personally, I prefer a Rumble return pop, around 10 years to the date he left, instead of Chicago. They got enough Punk the last few years in AEW. I like to imagine the call with the Board of Directors is like: "Phil do you promise to be a good boy?"
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Nov 5, 2023 20:44:21 GMT -5
So Punk is no better than everyone else who came back after they said they were done with WWE forever. Once again, anyone who still believes Punk's bs at this point is just a Punk fanatic. He’s maybe going to a place to extract the most money he can out of the skill set he has. What exactly do you want out of him? What point are you even trying to make?
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Post by chazraps on Nov 5, 2023 20:47:26 GMT -5
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Post by Savage Gambino on Nov 5, 2023 20:52:29 GMT -5
In the least politically charged way humanly possible, being wrong about CM Punk returning to WWE is profoundly low on the list of things journalists are putting on the line right now.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Nov 5, 2023 21:08:11 GMT -5
I'm already planning to wait to watch night 2 of Mania until after I get confirmation Roman lost, but I might just skip Mania entirely if night one is Punk / Rollins. That sounds like an aggressively f***ing boring feud.
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Post by jm on Nov 5, 2023 21:13:08 GMT -5
So Punk is no better than everyone else who came back after they said they were done with WWE forever. Once again, anyone who still believes Punk's bs at this point is just a Punk fanatic. He’s maybe going to a place to extract the most money he can out of the skill set he has. What exactly do you want out of him? To be a man of his word for once.
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Post by jm on Nov 5, 2023 21:14:32 GMT -5
WWE would have massive egg on their face as well if they brought back Punk. All the talk of "He's their problem now" when he went to AEW. I guess WWE wants Punk to "be their problem" again.
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Post by "The Natural" Bustin Loads on Nov 5, 2023 21:20:01 GMT -5
Wrestle Features? What's their track record?
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Post by Malibu Albino on Nov 5, 2023 21:40:38 GMT -5
Yeah grain of salt on that report until someone credible actually says it. “Having a meeting with the board” is exactly the way someone looking to make a splash with a fake story would word it. Like when has a talent ever met with the board before signing? Do they want Punk to pinky promise that he won’t try to fight anyone backstage?
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Post by Chiral on Nov 5, 2023 21:43:23 GMT -5
Please let Hausman chime in on this ASAP, I need to know how things go when Punk is to make his Zoom chat with the WWE board, all of whom find Punk very charming and really like his funny jokes, and are pleased he was considerate enough to remind everyone about daylight savings time when he called in the evening when the sun was about to go down.
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Post by Fade on Nov 5, 2023 21:53:01 GMT -5
It kind of sucks for WWE that they'll get negativity from fans no matter how good Survivor Series is when Punk doesn't show up. They've done nothing to encourage it and have outright denied it but still, there's no telling the Punk Cult eh. they've teased it, strangely enough. That was one of vince's big no-no's - dont tease what you cant deliver. I do think it sucks that most of the talking about SS has to do with Phil. This is the Ho's m.o every. got-damn. time. Ideally to me, this f***'s never seen again in a ring. But i'm certain he's coming in. Whereas his aew run was a train crash in real time, i feel like this'll be in slow-mo. At least seth gets to main event a Mania.
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Post by The anti-ratings Luddite on Nov 5, 2023 22:01:14 GMT -5
Don't watch WWE and could not care less about the product. Not a knock on WWE fans, just stating where I'm coming from with this.
If they want him, they can have him. He might pop a rating, but he's gonna be a pain in the ass no matter what you do to appease him. Not only that, he only knows how to play 2 characters at this point: "I'm straight edge so I'm better than you part 5674" and the whole "Voice of the voiceless", "Agent of Change" masturbatory bullshit that means nothing coming out of the mouth of a man who's 45 years old and changed nothing.
Dude is like the Antonio Brown of professional wrestling.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Nov 5, 2023 22:27:40 GMT -5
I still can't get over how absolutely insane the mood shift is between the WWE Board Punk Thread and the AEW Board Punk Threads
I feel like I'm in an alternate universe reading some of these posts, and I'm not saying that to stir up any arguments or negativity, it's actually just shocking to me and I assume I'll feel the same way if he actually were to return to the company and a thread full of hype ensues lmfao
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Post by polarbearpete on Nov 5, 2023 22:37:31 GMT -5
A return from Punk would definitely be interesting, on-screen and backstage. Let’s see it happen!
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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on Nov 5, 2023 23:04:33 GMT -5
He’s maybe going to a place to extract the most money he can out of the skill set he has. What exactly do you want out of him? To be a man of his word for once. Oh Punk is just a mark like everyone else. Anybody buying him as some loose cannon antiestablishment rebel and not the dude crawling on his knees to play in somebody else’s sandbox with his tail between his legs has not seen or heard anything Phil Brooks has done in the past year.
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Nosnorb
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Post by Nosnorb on Nov 5, 2023 23:14:30 GMT -5
If they want him, they can have him. He might pop a rating, but he's gonna be a pain in the ass no matter what you do to appease him. Not only that, he only knows how to play 2 characters at this point: "I'm straight edge so I'm better than you part 5674" and the whole "Voice of the voiceless", "Agent of Change" masturbatory bullshit that means nothing coming out of the mouth of a man who's 45 years old and changed nothing. Thats a bit unfair. This summer proved he can play 3 with his insufferable "Real Worlds Champion" on AEW Collision.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Nov 5, 2023 23:30:33 GMT -5
If nothing else I do imagine Punk would probably be more entertaining back in WWE than he was in AEW if only because 1), they're not going to let him be as self-indulgent, and 2), it's at least set up in a way to give him things to rail against as opposed to in AEW where a significant chunk of the entire company was centered specifically around kissing his ass but because his character is being a malcontent railing against the system he was just continually pissed off anyway for no apparent reason.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Nov 6, 2023 0:54:13 GMT -5
Wrestle Features? What's their track record? They don't have one. They're the repostiest of repost sites, and here are citing a 'WWE insider' who floats around sometimes and whose scoops I've mostly seen be real crazy things like 'LA Knight is going to be officially set a face' over the summer and that the plans for the Smackdown after Bray Wyatt died was being scrapped to be a tribute show instead. So not exactly stuff it'd take just a few brain cells to rub together to be able to come up with.
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