Yep both are smart men to the business there not stupid. They know the story's of bs others like Vince have done and know what there value and worth are to prowrestling period.. and the love what they do also there not 100%all about money ok maybe like 80%so or about that or weed in robs case but still they aren't broke guys they love prowrestling
He indeed went to ufc and humiliate himself, the guy has zero athletic ability, imagine being so bad that your boss had to fire your opponent for not ending you quickly, lmao, cm punk is a joke.
Aside from his own personal frustrations, Punk was trying to warn them about the icebergs they were heading towards. This has aged like fine wine, WWE has aged like milk.
Wwe will live on long after cm punk is gone, wwe is bigger than cm punk, he was never on the level of the rock, he was luckly to have some sensitive generation as fans, he was bitch, whinning and complaining all the time in a tough guy business, he went to ufc and humiliate himself again, he suck so bad that his opponent got fired for not ending the fight quickly lmao now i have never heard anything like this in the ufc before hahaha
@@mendozas.action.figures.That Comment litteraly makes it sound, like the beef was more between Punk and Vince which it absolutely wasn't at the time. Punk and Vince had their beef too, but he mainly disliked Hunter not Vince. You even hear it here how speaks about Hunter! They hated each other.
@@watersandblue6001but the problem was mostly vince i think Triple H was if anything more of a suck up. But the complete creative control was Vince and look what vince did to dean ambrose or jon moxley. Triple H learned the fundamentals of the business from vince but Triple H knows what sells and how to book. He is truly bringing it back. If vince was still in charge of creative he wouldnt be back.
This still rings true to this day. Punk spoke 100% truth. If it wasn't for him, Bryan would've never been in the title picture, in the main event at WrestleMania If it wasn't for Punk.
He was a huge part of what happened. Even though Batista was rejected by the fans at the Rumble, Vince is infamously stubborn. As long as he had his plans, he was going to stick to them. It was going to be Batista-Orton as the main event, and Punk-Triple H as the No.2 match, with Daniel Bryan-Sheamus as No.6 or whatever. Punk leaving changed everything. With the fans already pissed, they would have torn the main event apart without Daniel Bryan there. Punk facilitated Bryan’s moment in a major way.
Let me tell you this, Cm Punk is too sensitive simple as that, wwe is "tough guy" persona business from hulk hogan to stone cold to the rock, it's about big bulky dudes coming in and wrestling and showing their strength and entertaining, kinda like strongman competition, so for someone like cm punk who gave out a loser vibe with piercings and tattoos and whinning and complaining and dont look tough, of course it will not go well with wwe, vince like muscle more than brains which is what the company was made for, big strong guys showing their strength, not some skinny fat dude complaining, poor cm punk ahould have just shut up and obey, instead he went the other way, and humiliate himself on ufc, wwe is the only place where cm punk can look tough, after his ufc debut i lose all respect for him.
@@apostolostvable dude my point is cm punk dont get the culture of wwe and the type of show it is, it has always been about muscle rather than brains, its about being a badass not about knowing what to say, but the world has changed we have arrived in the internet era where everyone has become a snowflake and where nerds and geeks losers who are smart are considered badass got it?
@@Kingofthekop1 Not really, that’s a rude thing to say to your coworker. I seriously hope Punk kisses Triple H’s ass because that’s a very unprofessional remark and downright disrespectful. Punk needs WWE, WWE doesn’t need him.
Love or hate him but you can't help but to respect Punk for having the balls to stand up for himself in a company known to scare people into thinking they can lose their job or spot at the drop of a hat. CM Punk lit the fuse to a revolution in the pro wrestling industry and I'll always love him for it. Now when I look at wwe it's like seeing an old friend that you don't even recognize anymore. Sure wwe was what made me a pro wrestling fan in the first place but they also took that love I had for them and chucked it out the window. Now even when they do have their occasional interesting angles, I can't trust them to do the right thing. And more often than not I'm right about not trusting them to do the right thing. Glad Punk is back somewhere that clearly does appreciate him because the very first thing we all wanted to see was a promo between Punk and MJF and they gave us that with a proper build. Anyone that hates what Punk is doing now is obviously still suffering from the brainwash effects wwe drilled into many fans. The "flavor of the month" booking I call it. Every story always seems to HAVE to blow off at the PPV and then we're supposed to pretend everything got reset and that the past doesn't matter. That's why I find it entertaining when wrestlers bring up their past in wwe because we have NOT forgotten.
@@TheNepalesevideo I still find it funny how wrestling fans somehow found a bigoted word to refer to other wrestling fans lol guess that makes you a smark 🙄
@@mathefar3845 he was champ but he wasnt treated like a champ. he rarely ever main evented ppvs and was seen as less than important than guys such as cena and rock. (I’m not saying hes more important than either because I know how much of a draw they are but if we are putting this into perspective, he was seen as a shitty champ) for example, his match at over the limit with daniel bryan for the wwe championship was not the main event, but you wanna know what the main event was? john cena vs john laurinatis. thats how low wwe viewed him
@@Igo2hard ya man vince and triple h never liked him coz of that shoot pipebomb promo and always try to overshadowed him at his wwe title reign with cena rock and triple didn't even put him over at night of champions 2011
What saddens me the most is that whenever Punk and Hunter wrestled their chemistry was fantastic. Their interactions during the Summer of Punk were always top draw. Obviously there’s a lot of resentment here, and from what we’ve witnessed from WWE it’s more than likely that Punk was the first in a long line of performers who fought back after being let down time and time again by poor booking, backstage politics and the embarrassing paranoia that Vince feeds into his locker rooms. If Hunters tenure for NXT says anything he knew all along how wrestling should be booked, and it’s a real shame that he didn’t have that drive when it came to Punk. I hope that if ever they interact again down the road it’s not to the detriment of either man, the way “wrestling” should be.
Lol the moment HHH creatively puts him lower on the card, he’s gonna cry again. He’s in a good mood right now cuz they are pampering him by treating him like a god right now.
@@TunaVoidI don’t think he would’ve come back then if this was the case. Plus, people are going to hate HHH if that does end up eventually happening. If he doesn’t start feuding with others backstage or on X.
5:44 That problem has come back to bite WWE hard now. Because they haven’t built other stars, the ratings for the brand has suffered. If you don’t build stars today, you won’t have them when you need them tomorrow.
Just think about how many guys were over with the crowd in the 2010s Nexus, Alex Riley, Ryback, Damien Sandow, Cesaro and Bray Wyatt. All of them could have been Main Eventers. The fucked buried Nexus at Summerslam 2010. Alex Riley had the looks like John Cena and mabye thats why Cena never liked him i don't know. Ryback was buried the moment he lost to Mark Henry at WM 29. Cesaro was over asf with the Crowd but then they screwed him up with Heyman.
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother the problem was that he was over asf and then the moment he became a heyman guy he automatically went from the babyface to a tweener/heel because Heyman was hated because Lesnar beat The Streak. They really screwed up by doing Cesaro vs Brock in 2014/15 that would have been an amazing Match for Cesaro's Legacy.
For me, it's not just a problem with them building stars from the ground up, it's also the fact that they've taken indie darlings that have proven in other promotions that they have what it takes to be a big star in any company and they either waste their talent for the extent of their contract or they release them before they can give them a proper chance to show them how important they can be for the company
I was a huge punk fan a decade ago when I watched wwe... He always killed on the mic and he worked his ass off in the ring... it always boggled my mind why he was never the top guy and now we know.
You can sorta predict, and it was confirmed by him or his peers later on. Punk and to an extent, his wife Aj is kinda like those emo couple heading to a separate table from the jock football kids like HHH with the homecoming queen in Stephanie with the other cheerleaders like Bella twins. WWE or vince specifically believe getting over means someone used his cheesy original idea, put a spin or edit it to make it their own and then getting a wild cheer e.g New Day and Becky Lynch, unlike Punk a ready made product who play by their own rules.
Because wwe is a tough guy business not a place for emotional sensitive whinning bitches, Punk is too sensitive for wwe, he will not last 1 min in the attitude era, and he dare to complain when wwe has gone really soft? Cm punk is a joke
Punk isn't the draw he thinks he is ..AEW are tanking viewers at the moment theybare barely getting 800 thousand viewers for dynamite ..that is the shits ..hogan use to do a 12.7 rating for Saturday nights main event raw and aew barely do a 1.3..Austin would do a 5.5 while nitro did a 4.5 thats a 10.0 rating for both shows ..punk isn't a draw ..nobody is a draw today because the whole business has been neutered since the benoit incident...they need to let the wrestlers get back on what hogan called his python powder ...WWF was like watching 2 Titans do battle the company was even called Titan Sports and they had a show each week called Tuesday Night Titans ..imagine punk at 5ft 9 and a 160 lbs soaking wet stood next to a 6ft 6 300lb Hulkster brother..or a 6ft 2 280 lb Ultimate Warrior..he would look like a child ..nobody is going to pay to see a meth head looking wrestler when they can go in their home town and see them for free in the street..we paid to see the spectacle and attractions of wrestlers who looked like superheroes come to life.. larger than life characters u couldn't see anywhere else
This speaks to everyone who is struggling whether physically or mentally or both in their workplace, that you deserve time off for all of that hard work you do for your job and that taking time off for your mental health isn't a bad thing at all. When you overwork your employees you end up with a bad product and CM Punk showing up in AEW proved that. WWE killed his passion because he was putting in all of his time and effort and not getting anything in return. It's not selfish at all.
He was getting millions of dollars in return for all of his time and effort, wasn’t he? Which is all that WWE technically owed him, not to mention is a whole lot more than most people get from their employers in exchange for dealing with BS… I have to pee in a cup fairly often for my job, if I have a problem with it I’m terminated, period. But what innocent reason could I, or anyone else have for having a problem with that? People tend to side against the “big evil corporation” automatically, especially when it involves a beloved icon like Punk, but I honestly didn’t hear anything from him that warranted sympathy. WWE is a unique type of company when it comes to sports entertainment as they have total control over deciding who to put over and how to best do that. Not like other professional sports where athletes must find success and popularity more organically. So, in exchange for all of his time and effort, the WWE also made him everything he is today. Plenty of talented guys work just as hard and for whatever reason don’t get that push. He got it all and has still never stopped complaining about whatever negativity he had to deal with in exchange.
@@leslieoliverii9035 nobody is comparing trauma. CM Punk’s only gripe is that he didn’t get what HE wanted from the company, not that he didn’t get what he was DESERVED. His parents must’ve been too drunk to teach him he can get further in life using manners. You can’t walk in ANY workplace with an entitled attitude to the point you’re telling the boss how to do his job and expect to get far.
Even though I respect Booker T a ton, it always hurt more when Sting and CM Punk got fucked over because of HHH, mostly because CM Punk started off in WWECW within a year of me starting watching wrestling, so I felt like I grew up with him, and the fact that I used to love mid 2000's TNA and Sting was a massive part of that love for me
@isthatyoubetha Insinuate all you want, I wrote down my reasons for hating HHH more for fucking over Sting and Punk than Booker on that very comment and there's nothing else to it
This makes sense now i remember leaving for overseas visit, with cm punk super popular(2012) Came back middle of 2013 and wanted to see where punk was wow what a disappointment. He was midcard again not doing much other then looking like a someone there to lose big name wrestlers. Also he looked sick and that side burn beard thing made him look even more weirdly low tier like before he was popular. Its like they ruined his momentum and stopped his popularity relegating him to just being there to fill a slot.
When Punk had that 434 day title run I remember the for the whole reign Cena would always go on last and main event even though Punk was the longest reigning and most popular champ for years. WWE gave CM Punk the ball but didn't want him getting more over than their precious WWE lifer Cena. Sounds very toxic.
Tbh Cena or Lesnar had big matches that had to be in the Main Event of the PPV! For example Cena vs Rock WM 28, Cena vs Lesnar ER 2012, HHH vs Brock SS 2012!
@@watersandblue6001 Yes, there were certain situations where Cena's match was absolutely the main event of a ppv. Cena vs Rock or vs Lesnar absolutely deserved to main event. However, you can't tell me Cena vs john laurinaitis deserved to main event more then Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE title
@@watersandblue6001 I still think they could've done rock punk at wm 28 and it would've still been a big event. It was the rocks first wm in 8 years. And rock punk would've been a little different from the formula. Don't get me wrong cena rock was ok. I'm just saying it would've been cool as well.
@@hellohell77 Punk vs Rock at WM 28? No they did everything right with Once in a Lifetime but wm 29 should have been the 3 way punk/rock/cena nobody wanted to see that rematch were cena just won and that silly handshake at the end.
This has happened quite multiple times in wwe Vince is a great thinker he revolutionalised pro wrestling business and created one of the best characters in short larger than life characters But he always had that guy who was a great worker and was pushed decently and could have main evented wrestlemania but didn't do that be it health issues or booking issues or any other And there were and are those guys who doesn't matter what storyline they are in but end up main eventing mania be it hogan back in the day the austin and rock then golden boy cena frequently hunter and now reigns is just carrying on the tradition by already main eventing mania for like 5 times🤣🤣 that's actually pathetic though but they now have two days of mania so they can bragg about two main events But wwe always trusts on that one guy and for that guy other guy has to sacrifice We don't even need to go that far Dean Ambrose was hottest thing in pro wrestling back in 2015 and 16 he gave wwe the most match in 2015 and was giving some best matches against rollins and hhh And people wanted reigns vs ambrose at mania but what we got reigns vs hhh That is when i finally started to know that wwe had that bias-ness
I have no memory of the HHH and Reigns match. Must have been a stinker but I agree, Ambrose deserved the mania main event. I get Vince doesn't want to push everyone becuase then they could all leave to another company or hollywood but to depend on one guy seems like bad business. It took Punk leaving for them to realize Daniel Bryan was a good idea to main event 30. Nobody wants to see Batista and Orton wrestle for 30 mins! We've seen that a million times Vince!
@Zenix Saxzon ohh c'mon bruhh Vince has been running wwe or wwf since multiple decades So it is obvious that he isn't only warming up his boss's couch and giving order He involved himself in the storylines His creations Just imagine what would wwe look like without hogan bret shawn hhh stone cold rock lesnar cena orten Batista undertaker just to name a few These are what Vince gave us. Even though i despise current wwe and royal rumble made me feel soooo disappointed even though i had so much less expectations. But i will never pretend like vince has no contribution in this industry. What vince is doing today wcw used to do it back in the days. Wcw had undertaker, they gave him mean mark calaway Wcw had stone cold, it was stunning steve austin Wcw had hhh They had completely different characters in wcw and wwf and completely different careers as well Later on the likes of big show jericho eddie Guerrero chris Benoit left wcw and they had better career in wwf Vince used to be great back in the days Then there are pure wwe characters like rock orten cena lesnar batista There are not just 10 bruhh but numerous great characters which were either created under vince McMahon or groomed well under his company
Punk has been given almost complete control over his programs since his return in AEW, and so far they have been some of the best work in years. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must have been to know exactly what he was capable of and be constantly shackled and roadblocked in his prime. It’s honestly tragic.
He was burned out after WWE handed him termination papers on his wedding day, that would have been a painful expense for him and made him so bitter towards WWE after everything he did for the company s image.
He was relieved. He had thoughts on leaving and they sped the process up. He was able to recuperate and save his own life going to a good clinic to heal himself while the crap doctors WWe had could not do anything. And CM Punk could afford to quit, or be fired.
The crazy thing about CM Punk and Triple H is they are actually a lot alike, more so than either one of them wants to admit. They see themselves in each other, and they don’t always like what they see.
if there's ever a wrestler from the WWE that can relate with Punk and had a similar experience, it's got to be Kairi Sane, think about it, she wasn't used right in the main roster, had a short NXT Women's title reign, and at the end of her run in WWE, kept getting hurt by Nia Jax (who is her Ryback) and ended up possibly dealing with a loss of passion at the end and wanted out, but differences in Kairi compared to Punk is she ended things on friendlier terms by moving back to Japan and having WWE's blessings and became a ambassador for them (but her contract expires soon and she is 100% on her way back to Stardom and i could see her getting a deal to allow her to return to wrestling in the US for another promotion like AEW). I think if Kairi ever worked in AEW, I'm sure she and Punk would be talking about how WWE never appreciated their talents.
@@son_1118. pretty much one of the reasons, she also had injuries from years of wear and tear in the ring, homesickness and covid made her want to be home with family.
@@son_1118 she wasn't sick from Covid19 unless she got it within the past 2 years and kept it quiet about it, especially when WWE had a policy to not mention it.
I wonder if Punk asked Bryan to recommend to Tony that Punk be fired. I mean it was quite clear that he was done with the place like he was with WWE back in 2014.
I can’t believe that they didn’t think he was a draw, People buy more tickets based on a rumour of cm punk showing up then current guys sell tickets by being there currently. Blows my mind and I hope all these stories about wwe treating their guys like shit aren’t true.
To be fair you'd think they would know exactly who draws. They would have all of the stats and numbers. So if they felt he wasnt a huge draw there could have been something to that. We all know that Vince will always do business with people he knows will sell and doesnt hold grudges if it means making money. That makes me thing that maybe punk didnt draw as much as he thought he did.
Punk NEVER should have lost the title to Rock. Cena didn’t need to get that win back from Rock, it should have stayed once in a lifetime. Mania 29 always should have been Punk Vs Cena.
Cena should beat The Rock and get revenge on The Rock. They are the ones who will pass on the torch if Cena doesn't win. How can Cena be the proud Face of WWE? When he lost to The Rock, since The Rock was the Face of WWE before Cena, and The Rock was also a part-timer, defeating Cena, who at that time was a full-time wrestler, wrestled almost every week. Anyway, Cena has to beat The Rock back.
Punk should have main evented wrestlemania 2011 vs cena instead of miz and wrestlemania 2014 vs Bryan and orton instead of batista. This way Vince would have his dream matches of cena vs rock. Punk was already top guy in 2010-11 with nexus he should have main wvented in 2011.
i stopped watching in 2001 but then i got the network in 2016 and ive been watching every single raw . timeline wise im currently on summer 2015. im a big cm punk fan. product went to shit in 2010 but in 2011 cm punk reinvigorated my love for wrestling . they gave him the strap but never put him in that main event spotlight.
I mean he should have been put into that main event of wm 2013 cause god that match and build up with cena winning the rumble in13 was so damn predictable about the time I just stopped watching.
Wouldn't suprise me if Triple H knew Punk was correct in everything he said about the booking, hence why he never said anything back to Punk. Look at the difference in the product between Vince's WWE and Triple H's WWE lately for example.
@@MrSircharles05 Stephanie McMahon was the only reason why hunter Hearst Helmsley was/is even relevant Steve Austin & Dwayne Johnson were better wrestlers than him back then
To be honest around these years when punk was on the verge of leaving WWE wasn’t how it used to be. 2013-2015 was very questionable. It felt boring and bland.
Xenofave I mean he should have been put into that main event of wm 2013 cause god that match and build up with cena winning the rumble in13 was so damn predictable about the time I just stopped watching.
If no one can relate to what he’s saying, that’s very sad to see. We’ve all had jobs where upper management at one point or another has taken advantage of hard work and passion and used it up to the point where we felt like there’s nothing left. That’s all Punk is speaking about, before you go on to judge the guy about who he is and how big his ego is, perhaps you should listen to the full “The art of wrestling Ep 226” Punk isn’t trying to bitch and moan but just express his frustrations about a company that at the end of the day didn’t give a shit about him. To the ones who are calling him a cry baby and chump, just think about how you would feel if put into his shoes. Life’s not easy when your jobs literally killing you and your dream.
They say there's two sides to every story. I would like to hear the other side of this. It's easy to tell a "big man" story where "I walked in there, told my boss what's WHAT, and as I left he was crying blah blah". Maybe Punk was hard to work with, thought he was a pre-madona and only deserved to wrestle the very best. Like how he said he didn't need to wrestle HHH, that HHH needed to wrestle him. Maybe Punk was really a punk. Idk, I'd just like to hear the other side of the story.
WWE collectively has never responded to this particular part of the story. So for all intents and purposes I would have to believe Punk until they say otherwise.
It's funny how the two big matches leading up to the main event at that years WrestleMania we're gonna be the same as the previous but just switched opponents. With Punk, HHH, Brock, and Taker.
WWE has yet to surpass 2011- 14 years. Ive told myself unless the company is sold, the product is only going to get worse. In my opinion the last great Mania was 28 which was in 2012. 10 years ago bruh! Im not going to sit here and say AEW is this excellent company but it sure is nice to have something different with a more wrestling feel to it.
I have that Wrestlemania on DVD. Had, quite possibly, the greatest match in Wrestlemania history with the special referee Hell in a Cell match between Taker and Triple H with Shawn Michaels and another pretty damn good match between The Rock and John Cena
Totally agree with this. From the UK here, I used to stay up and watch every Wrestlemania. Don’t do it any more. Was it true Wrestlemania was set over 2 nights last year? Embarrassing if so
@@United-qx2sj they split it into two "brands". raw and smackdown. that made it too cringy for a lot of people and caused a huge decline. forced competitiveness because no other competing wrestling companies existed anymore. AEW can only be a good thing for WWE but it will take years
Its amazing how relative CM Punk's frustration and comments about the WWE's corporate model and how it affects the wrestles is close in comparison to us who work normal jobs. I loved doing what I was doing and enjoyed working for my company and liked most of the guys I worked with. But when the "new" corporate culture took over and a yes man was hired as my supervisor, it became an absolute miserable place to work. They don't care about you as a person and try to take more and more money and benefits from you.
He was in at a bad time, if he started with wwe a few years ago he'd be a top guy now like cena was. There were too many talents who held him back in his era such as hhh. I won't lie when punk debuted back in 06 I didn't see the big deal about him, physically average not a great look but the more he was exposed to the crowds you saw his gift was his in ring work, mic work and psychology, his brain. He's cut some.of the greatest promos in wrestling ever. Heyman knew he was destined for greatness, when no one else saw it just like with steve austin. Wwe is utter garbage now, watch though AEW will conquer wwe with him on top it will be a Steve Austin story in reverse.
Phil is a very disillusioned man. He became the longest reigning champion of fake fighting and all of the sudden he thinks he is a legitimate bad ass and decides to fight in UFC. Got pummelled in 2 fights. That brought him back to reality real quick !!
Love to see you get in the octagon or the ring with punk .... he'd tie your sorry ass in so many knots and tap you out in less than 10 seconds. Pillock !!
@@Amiga1200Mark These people always have a lot to say on their keyboard, but in real life, they're as weak as they say the people they're criticising are.
I feel like this woke up triple h to realize shit needs to change in wwe. Notice after this whole thing wwe while triple h was on there was pushing newer stars. Im glad punk said this cause i truly think this is why nxt is so good today and why rollins and many others are main roster success.
Listening to this after all the drama he's caused, this just makes Punk look unbelievably stupid. He talks about getting the title & the main event, but thinks he should leave if he's not given it? What he said, he sounds like he wanted the Hogan treatment. Then he contradicts himself when he talks about others not getting the main event or title. He's just a phoney
I haven't followed wrestling since the reign of terror. More than him giving it to Vince, I'm glad Punk let it rip on triple h. That guy and michaels deserve so much shit for all that they did over the years.
See this is what makes CM punk stand out and is respectable whether you like him or hate him you can sit here and say he's just a whiner a crier like others before him like Bret Hart well that being said this gives me a better understanding of what people like Bret Hart were saying and what they meant because punk explained in full detail all his grievances and all the problems instead of just getting on the camera and saying I got screwed
Years later you know that what happened to him happened to sooo many others. Aside of not puting wrestler in a main event, who deserved it, or to make them reach the "next level", they feed them lines for their promos and interviews. They do booking that makes no sense. And no you hear from different wrestler what ideas they pitched to Vince and all they got was a "thank you, but we have differentplan" or a "thank you, but we don't have anything for you, at the moment" and send them or to guard the catering or to do stupid comedy segments or to job for the same 2 guys who are already over.
In 2024, CM Punk still told the truth, the Rock is gonna lose to Roman and go back to acting 2011 was CM Punk's year 2014 was Daniel Bryan's year and WWE listened to the fans 2023-2024 was Cody's year
Think of all the superstars that Vince and co. Shackled...we could've had some incredible stories, characters and would've kept people interested in the brand...as far as punk goes ..there was a time .when he was all that and then some, after being away for 7 years coming back to Aewthat chip on his shoulder obviously still there..still the guy got an incredible fan reaction and I was even happy to see him back...then he gets injured not once but twice inside of his first year back ...but that situation at all out was just a bit too much and showed how he still lives in that world where he believes everyone owes him something...like come on dude, it's getting old. You have to change with the times or it will get stale, and we wrestling fans are the most passionate and honest about our feelings, and yet that still doesn't matter to some people
It’s still crazy how the greatest pro wrestler on the planet today arguably was not planned to be in the main event of WM in his year. I believe people take certain things that CM Punk says out of context leading them to believe he is a “crybaby”. He really just seems jaded about the ass backwards decision making at the top level of WWE. We have seen it numerous times, too many to count at this point, piss poor decision making with no common sense. Whoever is making those decisions may understand some semblance of a “business model” (they want to draw money for the main event of WM by plugging in household names) but they do not understand wrestling. They do not understand that wrestling needs to evolve, the fan base needs to be able to perceive guys like Daniel Bryan (or anyone who has proved themselves to be able to perform at that level) as “main event guys”. And I’m not just talking about the main event of WM, you need more main event guys to carry the company throughout the year and challenge for the title and put asses in seats. Whoever is making these types of decisions simply doesn’t understand that.
I came back to visit this after hearing about the Mustafa Ali situation and the reports Finn Balor’s main event run is over. WWE takes people who love professional wrestling and destroys their passion. They ran off every wrestler who loved the art of wrestling and then let part timers like Brock and Ronda collect all the big money and main events.
No true, Ronda and Brock are both larger than life superstars who put over WWE talent. Ronda boosted Becky's stock after the WrestleMania match. Brock put over Rollins, Reigns, and McIntyre clean. These are all top guys.
Cm Punk thought that it would only take The Cheering crowd and a lot of Fans to get over and Deserve The Main Spots but He was never Willing to fulfill His Ways to it. So He doesn't actually have to wonder at All.
Oh, and the highlight of Colt Cabana's whole wrestling career...in and outside of the ring, this particular episode of his podcast. And then... crickets.
If it wasn't for Daniel Bryan the main event of Wrestlemania 30 would be one of the most disgusting, unwatched and forgotten ever, and they realized it before it was too late so they put and let Bryan win so made history, and they were right...unfortunately no realized that Cm Punk vs Daniel Bryan would be one of the most remebering and cheered of all times
I find it so ironic that Chris Jericho badmouthed punk saying that him being in the Main Event of Wrestlemania doesn’t matter, to then him saying that he was annoyed at Vince for not putting him and KO as the main event of Mania for the Universal Title; so much so that it led to Chris leaving WWE. I know they’re friends and both have ego’s based on how good they are, but it’s funny that Jericho left for the same reason Punk did.
Wrestling companies have toxic environments. You might be promised something but no matter what you do, someone else comes and steal spotlight at the last minute which happened to Jericho and Owens match after promising to be main event got shot down due to Goldberg return.
