BRV
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Post by BRV on Apr 11, 2024 14:52:12 GMT -5
If CM Punk's initial injury timeline is accurate, it would have him returning around late June or early July. If that remains the case, then they have to pull the trigger on a Punk-McIntyre match at SummerSlam. The feud will presumably still be red hot, and why wait around another nine months to delay the inevitable just to hold it at WrestleMania? one of the biggest issues of the earlier "Era" was that they only did big important things at Mania... hell it even had that issue in the New Generation and it's what sunk Lex Luger. The current administration is not immune to that, either. Jimmy Uso vs. Jey Uso became a full-blown rivalry at SummerSlam last year. They were separated by Jey moving to Raw, but it was restarted with them as nos. 1 and 2 in the Royal Rumble. For as heatless as that feud was, the only reason they held off on a blow-off match was because WrestleMania was around the corner. The same can be said for AJ Styles vs. LA Knight. Those two first got into it last December, and the crowds never really got behind it. Sometimes you've just got to rip off the band-aid instead of waiting for a "WrestleMania moment."
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Apr 11, 2024 14:54:02 GMT -5
Isn't this how it is with Punk though? He's on his best behavior then it all falls apart? AEW period definitely but other than that he left WWE because of his health after a 9 year spell and before than was with ROH and IWA MS consistently, never really bought it being some repeat pattern of hostility that's like working with volatile chemicals or something
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Apr 11, 2024 14:57:05 GMT -5
wait sorry he QUIT!!! IWA MS for a year or so because Ian brought in Nick Gage who at the time had recently treated Hero and a few others like shit so he missed a lot of 2003 hence the commentary that year not being as good
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Post by Woo on Apr 11, 2024 20:09:44 GMT -5
Isn't this how it is with Punk though? He's on his best behavior then it all falls apart? AEW period definitely but other than that he left WWE because of his health after a 9 year spell and before than was with ROH and IWA MS consistently, never really bought it being some repeat pattern of hostility that's like working with volatile chemicals or something Exactly. This whole talk that CM Punk is always unprofessional is stupid. Yes, he was unprofessional at AEW, but lots of wrestlers seems unprofessional there, and it's not the norm for CM Punk.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jun 15, 2024 16:54:09 GMT -5
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jun 15, 2024 17:09:37 GMT -5
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Renslayer
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Renslayer on Jun 15, 2024 17:27:54 GMT -5
Hater of the century!
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Post by dreidemy on Jul 23, 2024 13:49:46 GMT -5
He's a menace
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Post by ChitownKnight on Aug 3, 2024 19:28:53 GMT -5
And Punk just brought up the photo with Drew and Fienstein. I really hope Drew didn’t know who he was. But yeah this is a bad look
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Aug 3, 2024 20:07:40 GMT -5
And Punk just brought up the photo with Drew and Fienstein. I really hope Drew didn’t know who he was. But yeah this is a bad look Yeah what a shock Punk's making shit personal any chance he gets and potentially turning a once nothing situation (even if odd) into one that spirals...
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Post by Killah Ray on Aug 3, 2024 21:26:06 GMT -5
And Punk just brought up the photo with Drew and Fienstein. I really hope Drew didn’t know who he was. But yeah this is a bad look Yeah what a shock Punk's making shit personal any chance he gets and potentially turning a once nothing situation (even if odd) into one that spirals... ….Drew took a picture with Jack Perry and was lauded for it.
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Post by Schizo on Aug 3, 2024 22:05:06 GMT -5
Punk looked great out there tonight! MUCH better then his Rumble appearance
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 3, 2024 22:08:48 GMT -5
While I'm not a fan, I find it hard to be that outraged at Punk on a show that had Logan Paul and McAfee and McDonagh and Stratton on it and he did well tonight. The bracelet thing is goofy as hell but it works.
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Aug 3, 2024 22:10:35 GMT -5
He looked better than in a long time tonight and him losing was probably the right decision.
Triple threat Hell in a Cell at Bad Blood?
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Aug 3, 2024 23:08:59 GMT -5
They really stunk up the joint tonight.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Aug 3, 2024 23:13:42 GMT -5
Yeah what a shock Punk's making shit personal any chance he gets and potentially turning a once nothing situation (even if odd) into one that spirals... ….Drew took a picture with Jack Perry and was lauded for it. I didn't think that was a great idea either for the record because Punk gets super f***ing upset about anything he might do to others, but not when it's done back to him.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Aug 3, 2024 23:15:05 GMT -5
While I'm not a fan, I find it hard to be that outraged at Punk on a show that had Logan Paul and McAfee and McDonagh and Stratton on it and he did well tonight. The bracelet thing is goofy as hell but it works. The one thing Punk does have going for him is he's not a racist, creep, or transphobic He's a f***ing hotheaded moron, but sometimes it's nice when that's all you are, because yeah, it can get worse.
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Post by thechase on Aug 4, 2024 2:48:18 GMT -5
Drew should start treating the bracelet like those candy beads and use them as projectiles
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Aug 4, 2024 3:03:42 GMT -5
Can he not just buy a new bracelet? It didn't look like it was awfully expensive.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Aug 4, 2024 3:15:28 GMT -5
And Punk just brought up the photo with Drew and Fienstein. I really hope Drew didn’t know who he was. But yeah this is a bad look Yeah what a shock Punk's making shit personal any chance he gets and potentially turning a once nothing situation (even if odd) into one that spirals... A one trick pony's gonna go back to the only well it knows how to drink from. Just god forbid if you drink from that well too, how dare they!
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