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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 12:16:00 GMT -5
CM Punk's flameout in AEW weirdly reminds me of how Game of Thrones ended. You're not wrong, but what makes it even sadder is that I really don't see any indication whatsoever that Punk's got a House of the Dragon level of making amends inside of him.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 10:12:40 GMT -5
There's a part of me now that wants to see Colt Cabana have a proper career renaissance after all this and just be the better man in numerous senses of the term.
There's also a part of me that wants Colt or another Chicago-based wrestler to reclaim the Chicago flag motif from Punk just to see him melt down even harder and try to sue over something that was never his to copyright.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 8:38:58 GMT -5
Maybe they could have put it aside when it was just "we aren't friends anymore" but trying to freeze him out of a contract and publicly airing your dirty laundry at a press conference? Ouch. Aside from everything that's already been repeated all thread, that's another thing that's a little worrisome about Punk's behavior since this all went down. It's like he's leveled up past his response to falling out with someone being "I hate you now and I might talk shit about you here and there but whatever as long as we're not around each other" to "I will actively try to destroy you and your entire livelihood because I f***ing can".
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 22:11:45 GMT -5
600 pages of hell. I fear what happens on page 666. TK hires Alberto.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 20:44:16 GMT -5
So many of the people who Punk wants to fight with don't f***ing want to fight him. Seriously, is Bobby Fish the only wrestler who's gone on record as ACTUALLY wanting to pick a fight with Punk and not the other way around? Punk tried to go scorched earth and only succceed in burning down his own house. Also, something something PUNK SHOOTS HARD ON DAVID BYRNE
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 17:52:21 GMT -5
Honestly at this stage it’s just really pathetic that they’re trying all this s*** thinking that anyone with half a brain is gonna buy any of it I will say though, if we don’t get a two part DSOTR type show about this at some point in the far future I’m gonna kick some f****** doors in Don't know about a documentary, but I'm certain Wrestling Bios will cover it on his channel at some point down the line. At this point I kinda wanna see Punk pull whatever strings he's got left in the comic industry to cough up a Warrior-style rendition of his take on what happened.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 17:11:43 GMT -5
If it weren't for the fact that it will never ever happen between legal NDAs and not wanting to provoke Punk's propensity for pettiness, I'd love to see BTE take this piss out of this like Loki's play from Thor Ragnarok.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 16:47:09 GMT -5
The lead story's going to be leaked security camera footage from Punk's locker room irrefutably showing how Larry ACTUALLY lost his teeth:
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 13:12:25 GMT -5
Cool. I know some don’t like Flynn’s heavy action focus but he keeps the emotions high. Plus he doesn’t go to Snyder degrees when he makes Sonic darker. Belated, but now that I've finally gotten caught up with the current IDW comics, I'd say Flynn's pretty much nailed the proper tone for the comics right now, IMO. I've also got to give the man credit for balancing 'dark enough' with a nominally all-ages comic with the level of Sega meddling that Sonic spin-offs typically get. So many 'name' comic writers nowadays I've soured on with time because of a propensity to get too eye-rollingly edgy the less editorial supervision they have, though admittedly there's a part of me that'd like to see Mark Millar write for Sonic again just to see how ridiculous it would be. While I wouldn't put him to the level of James Roberts' MTMTE/Lost Light run on Transformers in terms of doing an astounding job of balancing humor with lore deep cuts, heavy action, and a dash of grimdark, I'd still put Flynn up there at least in terms of writers working with licensed properties.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 10:25:08 GMT -5
I'm now picturing a wave of wrestling journalists descending on every vet practice like f***ing zombies in Chicago demanding to know if they've pull the front teeth out of an ugly dog belonging to a man called Phil. Now I'm curious if there's any sort of a veterinary-specific analog to HIPAA that would keep them from doing so, because I totally wouldn't put it past them.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 9:43:17 GMT -5
Quoting this from a wReddit thread on the matter because it might be one of the most succinct and apropos descriptions of Punk I've ever read, which also reads like a hell of a promo:
Also this:
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 8:47:26 GMT -5
Exactly. You want to acknowledge it without plunging too hard into inside baseball. Give us a wink wink yeah I know you know kind of gesture and be done with it.
Literally the only reason I would be okay with this turning into a full-on angle would be if Punk was genuinely contrite about what happened, but after the Definitely Deliberate Dog-Door Denunciation from yesterday, I'm not particularly convinced that's ever going to happen.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 7:15:31 GMT -5
I dunno, the Thanos bit makes me feel like they may just bring the Elite back thinking they're still Trios champs with a few winks of the camera and that's that.
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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2022 6:29:28 GMT -5
This is when I get cranky at people somehow not knowing the difference between a revival and a reboot, right? Though that being said, I can't quite tell if that's Bryan Cranston being like "we're going to pick things up with the exact same cast from before so everyone can see in HD how much of a goofball I was before Walter White" or "we're going to pick things up with a new cast with the old cast involved in writing and backstage".
I'd much prefer the former, just because again, the sheer whiplash from Bryan Cranston as Hal vs Bryan Cranston in most of the roles he's played in the last decade and change would be glorious.
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Post by Burst on Oct 26, 2022 22:21:26 GMT -5
Like "well, he was unprofessional, but what he said was truth" type stuff. I legitimately wonder if the folks using this logic to try to argue that Punk shouldn't suffer any professional consequences, have ever actually held any sort of a job.
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Post by Burst on Oct 26, 2022 20:59:15 GMT -5
Ethan Page might be the only wrestler I'd actually trust to do the release Razor's Edge nowadays.
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Post by Burst on Oct 26, 2022 20:56:24 GMT -5
🎵 Staarrrrrrr Trekkin', across the universe 🎵
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Post by Burst on Oct 26, 2022 20:55:14 GMT -5
Okay, got the pin and five minutes left in the show, who's coming out?
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Post by Burst on Oct 26, 2022 20:45:26 GMT -5
Oh c'mon, if you're gonna do the double bird, at least pretend that you're gonna follow up with the kick into stunner combo.
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Post by Burst on Oct 26, 2022 20:42:27 GMT -5
If AEW ever manages to run Gund Arena in Cleveland instead of the Wolstein Center, it totally needs to be for a street fight or something just so they can start his entrance in Progressive Field. Preferably with a custom Guardians jersey.
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