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Post by Gerard Gerard on Nov 27, 2023 10:58:38 GMT -5
How will Punk fans justify him being at a Saudi show? By pointing to his previous activism in bad faith and insist there's a master-plan behind his participation that never really has to materialise?
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Post by Hunch back of Notredomus on Nov 27, 2023 11:11:47 GMT -5
I feel like they can only be worst enemies or best friends. Right. The promos we would get tho 🔥🔥🔥
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Post by BRV on Nov 27, 2023 11:15:00 GMT -5
So the Zimbabwe $100 trillion dollar question: Does Judgment Day show up tonight on RAW and interrupt CM Punk? And then, just as they have the ring surrounded, out comes Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso to make the save and set up a six-man tag team match in the main event, because this is the song that never ends.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 27, 2023 11:17:05 GMT -5
How will Punk fans justify him being at a Saudi show? By starting another CM Punk appreciation thread right here on FAN!
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Nov 27, 2023 11:29:27 GMT -5
How will Punk fans justify him being at a Saudi show? He'll GTS the entire Saudi government
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Post by tirtefaa on Nov 27, 2023 11:37:37 GMT -5
Hey, I was driving back from Cincinnati the last couple days due to the holidays, what did I miss? Oh. I don't think Punk's backstage issues from AEW will be as big of a factor for this WWE run as people think they will. 1. I don't think he'll be on the show week to week. Less opportunity for him to piss off people/have people piss him off. 2. Punk respects WWE. He didn't respect AEW. He did at first, but that went sometime during his first injury hiatus in summer 2022. 3. The backstage stuff just doesn't come out as easily in WWE as it does in AEW. Now, all that said, there's still gonna be backstage drama, it's Punk. But anyone thinking all the shit that happened in AEW will just immediately transfer over to WWE is sorely mistaken. I actually kind of agree with this. Punk doesn't respect WWE, but he respects what it is, and that is the biggest platform out there. If he can do anything he can to "stick it" to those out there that he doesn't like, he will do so, even if that means he's going to go back on his word. Again, anything can happen...but I think we're going to probably see him going after people outside the company, but for now at least hold back on any sour grapes he might have for anyone within the company.
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Post by Sephiroth on Nov 27, 2023 11:38:21 GMT -5
Now if one of his contract tens was signing Danhausen
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Nov 27, 2023 11:40:11 GMT -5
Now if one of his contract tens was signing Danhausen He's got all the great deals on WWE shirts. Genuine Nafatics and everything.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 27, 2023 11:42:26 GMT -5
All I know is that I want whatever magic dust HHH uses to get people who I never, ever imagined would come back to the fold to bury the hatchet.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Nov 27, 2023 11:44:24 GMT -5
All I know is that I want whatever magic dust HHH uses to get people who I never, ever imagined would come back to the fold to bury the hatchet. This is a marriage of necessity He burned his bridge with the only other place they had enough money or reach that he'd be satisfied with.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 27, 2023 11:46:50 GMT -5
All I know is that I want whatever magic dust HHH uses to get people who I never, ever imagined would come back to the fold to bury the hatchet. This is a marriage of necessity He burned his bridge with the only other place they had enough money or reach that he'd be satisfied with. Oh, there's definitely an aspect of that factor involved. I guess I'm moreso shocked because I was always under the impression Punk *hated* Hunter. Like, say what you want about Hunter's ego during his ring days, but he seems to have the ability of a really great used car salesman when it comes to sweet talking people
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Post by Sephiroth on Nov 27, 2023 11:51:36 GMT -5
All I know is that I want whatever magic dust HHH uses to get people who I never, ever imagined would come back to the fold to bury the hatchet. This is a marriage of necessity He burned his bridge with the only other place they had enough money or reach that he'd be satisfied with. I know. It’s just a gleefully funny image to entertain. Especially since I can’t see Danhausen’s shtick flying well with a wwe audience.,
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Post by Fade on Nov 27, 2023 11:56:03 GMT -5
WrestleMania is likely being main evented by two AEW cast offs. Starting to look like what happened when WCW steered the Titanic straight into the iceberg. Which company is the titanic in your scenario? Which company is the titanic in your scenario? The one not hitching their wagons to indy darlings and guys who have actually drawn money in wrestling. Analogy doesn’t work. It’s kind of like an inverse version of pre attitude era explosion wwe and mega successful WCW to me. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that WWE was reduced to signing an aging AEW reject like Punk because they couldn't get any of the big stars like Jay White nor Hangman nor Omega nor The Bucks nor especially Ospreay. Nah, see, signing Edge meant that AEW is now a "retirement home", while bringing back Orton and Punk means WWE is "the place to be"! ...What do you mean, "we're just uncritically parroting something a source within WWE was trying to spread around as a narrative", that's not very brother-like of you, dude! And yeah, the whole "THIS is what matters in wrestling!" stuff as if wrestling is anything like actual pro sports in determining quality is something straight out of 1986. it’s optics. Randy and Phil came back to that crowd and reaction. Adam’s been doing poorly attended houses 🤷 I mean, it's true because no one in AEW is over like Hogan, Goldberg, Nash or DDP ever was. Cody split from WWE and said, "I'm gonna prove I can get over without WWE." He did. Now he's back and about to win their world title. I don't even like Cody, I think he's a mid-card act at his very best, but he's gonna main event WrestleMania regardless of my opinion. Punk said, "I came to AEW because of the respect they showed Brodie Lee and that impressed me" Now, both those guys split AEW and are likely to main event WrestleMania, which is still the upper echelon of wrestling, no matter what you say. From like 1950 to 1991, the Soviet Union used to say, "Yeah, so and so won the Stanley Cup, but we won the World Championship of Hockey, so that's what matters" But everyone knows the Stanley Cup is what matters in hockey. WrestleMania is what lets you know what's up in wrestling. The worse thing that could happen to WWE is for AEW to go under. WWE needs to have someone else in the game at a decently high level to keep its edge. It’s a good thing to have because of that impending Monopoloy lawsuit endeavor/TKO will face too.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Nov 27, 2023 11:57:13 GMT -5
This is a marriage of necessity He burned his bridge with the only other place they had enough money or reach that he'd be satisfied with. I know. It’s just a gleefully funny image to entertain. Especially since I can’t see Danhausen’s shtick flying well with a wwe audience., If Hunter thought 2.0 was too "pro wrestling" he wouldn't get Danhausen. That said I think put him on NXT and the crowd would embrace him. For main roster have him debut in NY or Philly or any smark heavy city in WWE and they'll likely pop for him. If he's allowed to do his schtick he'll likely get over. If they insist that the writers heavily script it he probably won't.
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Post by Killah Ray on Nov 27, 2023 12:15:23 GMT -5
I know. It’s just a gleefully funny image to entertain. Especially since I can’t see Danhausen’s shtick flying well with a wwe audience., If Hunter thought 2.0 was too "pro wrestling" he wouldn't get Danhausen. That said I think put him on NXT and the crowd would embrace him. For main roster have him debut in NY or Philly or any smark heavy city in WWE and they'll likely pop for him. If he's allowed to do his schtick he'll likely get over. If they insist that the writers heavily script it he probably won't. You put Danhausen in nXt long enough for his schtick to get over and then give him a big Rumble moment to do it on a stadium, it’d be the biggest pop he’d get in his life.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Nov 27, 2023 12:22:52 GMT -5
I just hope Punk lasts until 2K24 comes out. I’ve never been a fan of his in real life but he was always one of my favorites to use in the games he was in.
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Post by gnr123 on Nov 27, 2023 12:49:06 GMT -5
I guarantee you, even if the AEW controversy didn't happen, there still would be the disdain towards him for going back to WWE. I mean, people were bitching when he was on the WWE Backstage show in 2021, calling him the same buzzwords, "hypocrite, no morals, how can you go back to the company that almost killed you."
People seem to think that CM Punk is this manifestation of everything they hate about WWE. PG, John Cena, Sport's Entertainment, everything they hate about it, they put into him because he's supposed to be this rebel that hate's all of that. When, in reality, from the "Pipe bomb" up until he left, he was just a WWE Superstar. He acted as a face and a heel according to what WWE wanted him to do. He had that goofy love triangle storyline with Daniel Bryan and AJ Lee while he was a face, and acted like a smug asshole when he was a heel, running away from the good guys like Ryback and John Cena. He lost his 400 plus day title reign to The Rock, lost to Undertaker at WrestleMania, lost to Brock Lesnar, and was putting over The Shield when he left. CM Punk was a star, on talk shows and celebrity shows. I never say the "he HATES the WWE system," during that time.
So where id it come from, the Colt Cobana podcast when it was shortly after he left, and emotions were sky high? When he was in AEW? Because him bashing WWE in AEW wasn't shocking at all, he whole character was "disgruntle WWE star." He has to, just like all the other former WWE stars have to, just like Edge said, "to get a cheap pop." Judging by the discourse and tribalism that's even on this topic alone, it's what the AEW fans wanted to hear.
And, if his ego is a massive and people say it is, do you really think he would just fade away after his untimely exit from AEW? I mean, once he was fired from AEW, it was only a matter of when, not if, he'll be back in WWE. Then Survivor Series was in Chicago, then the teases started, and it all clicked. Now, people are actively angry at him, acting like he betrayed them, when in reality Phil Brooks is not your friend, you don't know him personally.
Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to watch his return for the 25th time.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Nov 27, 2023 12:52:42 GMT -5
The RAW thread's gonna be packed tonight. it’s gonna be really funny seeing a bunch of new people get used to all the profile picture posting lmao
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Nov 27, 2023 12:54:06 GMT -5
If Hunter thought 2.0 was too "pro wrestling" he wouldn't get Danhausen. That said I think put him on NXT and the crowd would embrace him. For main roster have him debut in NY or Philly or any smark heavy city in WWE and they'll likely pop for him. If he's allowed to do his schtick he'll likely get over. If they insist that the writers heavily script it he probably won't. You put Danhausen in nXt long enough for his schtick to get over and then give him a big Rumble moment to do it on a stadium, it’d be the biggest pop he’d get in his life. Honestly, AEW has pretty perfectly used Danhausen. Don’t send that cat out to be a credible wrestler, people are happy to just see him for 5 minutes and maybe say something wacky. Kinda like how people look at RTruth these days, although Truth is a way better wrestler then Danhausen could ever hope to be haha
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Post by Fade on Nov 27, 2023 12:59:41 GMT -5
You put Danhausen in nXt long enough for his schtick to get over and then give him a big Rumble moment to do it on a stadium, it’d be the biggest pop he’d get in his life. Honestly, AEW has pretty perfectly used Danhausen. Don’t send that cat out to be a credible wrestler, people are happy to just see him for 5 minutes and maybe say something wacky. Kinda like how people look at RTruth these days, although Truth is a way better wrestler then Danhausen could ever hope to be haha I’m amazed he hasn’t gotten his own “Talk Show” to get wrestlers and angles over. Wasn’t the basis and inspiration of his character partly Conan O’Brien?
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