Who Screwed Up the Summer of CM Punk in WWE? 

Z True Long Island Story was hilarious on RU-vid

But Bryan losing in 18 seconds made sense in the end

@@unstablebrother again with this shit. No it doesn't

Iirc, Awesome Truth ended because of R-Truth getting busted for drugs. In regards to Cena beating Lesnar in his first match back, I argue that was an “insurance policy”, don’t want Brock going over all of your top guys, then deciding to say, “Hey, I’m bored, maybe I’ll try hockey this time” and leave without putting anyone over or “making” anyone again (and I argue Brock leaving in 04 was what caused them to adopt their “we don’t make stars, the WWE brand is the star” philosophy)

Least AJ Brooks was doing good for herself

It was a clever way of dealing with the reality that such a situation would have caused. The humor between Triple H and Punk coupled with the earnestness that HHH had for being a man of many hats created an all-around great segment.

honestly I think all 4 guys played a part Seamus and cena get over looked but they had a couple good bits as well.

i would watch that, everyone wrestles everyone, everyone gets a shot at commentary and being a ref, it couldn't fill 2 hours but it would be fun

@RU-vid Viewer Bruh, it’s a storyline. It always has been. And those HHH promos sucked and killed the angle.

@RU-vid Viewer lol, please

@RU-vid Viewer They're only truth if you want them to be truth. That Triple H is this big shot making decisions, so he knows better and people can't complain about it because they all wish they were big shots like him and Punk just complains because he wants all of the attention. Punk complains because the show sucked, his ideas for what he wants for his character were being ignored. Maybe there's some correlation there? How about you give the guy a shot and find out? Why is Triple H even trying to put himself over the more active wrestlers who actually have a future, not building them up? Makes little sense.

“Fine speech” is Cena’s way of going “I have been bested and am unable to come up with a proper response”

@RU-vid Viewer No, it's him ramping up to deliver exactly that.

PAAAAAAHHH*

Pahhhh

You can also chalk it up to Brock, Rock, Austin, and Goldberg all leaving one after another after WrestleMania 20. He probably figures: "Well, fuck it! If there's a chance any of these guys are gonna leave me, I'm not gonna invest in them." And I don't think he ever let that go. And ever since then, nobody is allowed to get over unless the boss says so.

It's funny you mention John Cena making the jump to Hollywood seeing how he could have a career outside of WWE while pointing out Vince having said weird insecurity about anyone getting bigger than the company. I think Cena's the rare exception because of the timing. as Cena was fully transitioning to Hollywood, Vince was working on making Roman the next top guy . It's like Vince (in his mind) knew history was low-key repeating but I think this time was like, "Fine, I'll live with it," It also helps that Cena comes back from time to time unlike the previous departures some of which were acrimonious

@@jeffcherubin9073 plus Cena put in the time. He was 'the guy' for nearly a decade in WWE, whereas somebody like The Rock for example was only the top draw for a few years. A'lot of people forget that Rock had an astonishingly short wrestling career before he left for Hollywood full time.

​@@DeadmanInc336 You're right about that and yeah, it was short.

Yeah I noticed it too like he so scared that if he push other wrestlers they would go Hollywood or worse join other competitions which have happened before multiple times like the rock going full time hollywood and hullk hogan gong to wcw, the problem is no matter what all this would happened eventually so vince was in a constant panic if this was the case

Okay, that's a nice theory and all, but the problem with that idea... is that it make WAY TOO MUCH SENSE.

@@Lunacorva Lol

Bro, I’m 20 years old & mexican , grinding hard to get out the hood, I can’t be 30 with nothing to show for so i smoke weed on my youtube channel 😂🤒🤒

Nope. Cena was gonna hold the belt all the way up to WM28 and defend it against The Rock. Putting the belt on Punk just gave WWE an excuse to do Rock-Cena twice.

That’s a very fair assumption

At least with most all of them it's a good thing they are gone. Vince was an out of touch crazy old man who no longer knew how to book a product for the modern times. Johnny Ace was a bozo who had a shitty eye for talent thinking only guys like 6'5 or taller with muscles were worth signing. ADR was never a draw his character was pretty dull and he was just an average wrestler compared to who WWE has now on the roster. And Nash had zero business being involved in anything back then much less now.

Man that was a stretch

punk is not material for Maint eventer.

Those examples, Bryan only getting a push because they had no other option and soooo many NXT guys getting nothing on the main roster is why I gave up.

Yeah it took basically a fan revolt, plus Punk walking out of WWE, plus Batista getting such backlash that they had to turn him heel, for them to FINALLY push Bryan.

@@Sky_Blaze Bro, you don’t even watch wrestling anymore. You’re making opinion based off of cliff note reviews on RU-vid shows.

@@scotthardie5141 I slowly got chipped away at nxt call by nxt call up. Shayna was the last straw I think

nexus and ryder arent material for maint eventers.

Or the NBA Lockout

Considering his track record, wouldn’t surprise me.

@@claymathewselevator8121 Also I remember at at that time the NFL went on a short-term strike around the same time too. So there was a lot of inspiration around that time for the raw workout.

Seems like you're too young to understand where you're wrong. Those wrestlers are from different planets.

punk could have been overexposed and it would be the same complaint as always

It's the only funny part about the last 75 DX reunions though

I loved that

Whenever I hear that song I think of that video

Road Dogg also returned to award him Slammy before

Coachman did have more personality tho

I was at No Way Out, that main event was hard to sit through.... Boring

@@charleszulas4021 Tyrus, Matt Cardona, Alex Riley, Santino and Kofi Kingston helping John Cena win 😂

@@ThePrince63357 A broomstick has more personality than John Laurinaitis

Can't stand both of them.

Today is your lucky day 😂

Because Punk was never, ever over.

@@GetBenched2010 you have to be a real loser to try and do historical revisionism about wrestling lil bro

and i think 3 of them involved Cena

Cuz he doesn’t draw

@@jimmysdadgoingcrazyHe wasn't given a chance to draw, you can't make your champ and afterthought and then blame people for seeing your champ as an afterthought. They did the same to Bret

@@jbtreshawn And with the other two Pay-Per-Views, John Cena just wasn't there. That is unless he was being literal with his catchphrase.

A WWE title match between Punk vs. Daniel Bryan did not main event one PPV, because Cena vs. freaking Johnny Ace did. Absurd.

He doesn’t make negative video’s about AEW, he doesn’t wanna lose the paycheck from Tony

@@EncinoDude he literally made a video criticizing AEW 2 weeks ago

@@EncinoDude nah but like do you really think TK is paying wrestling with wregret??

Hunter should bring them back now just to spite punk 😂

They kind of did, but it was a half-assed attempt

I remember they made Ice Cream sandwiches a few years ago.

They contract deal with that ice cream company probably ran out

Couldn't afford them, Vince was spending all his $$$ to keep people quiet lmaooo

Today your wait is over 😂

The Summerfest- Jeremy Piven

@@claymathewselevator8121 yep. He could do a top 16 worst guest host countdown. There’s so much to choose from lol

@@tinotica Honorable mentions would be the good ones 😂

@@claymathewselevator8121 so Bob Barker and (surprisingly) the Muppets 😂

@@tinoticaThe heel Michael Cole is the one I have been waiting for a long time and still waiting.

I remember that storyline, Guillermo. Sadly, we all know that ECW didn't have a chance to compete agaist RAW and SmackDown even when they could. Take for example Kane. I think that he could have been a great ECW Champion since he proved that he could be hardcore like in 2003, and what happened? He won the title in 8 seconds at WM, defended it agaist Chavo Guerrero at Backlash, then only teamed up with Punk at Judgment Day, an then, at One Night Stand, the PPV where Kane could prove that he was capable of go to the extreme to defend the ECW Championship, wasn't even booked for the PPV, just staring at the TV when Big Show became the N° 1 Contender, and then, lost the ECW Title at Night of Champions getting pinned, never got his rematch and then turning heel. A wasted oportunity to build back the ECW Championship and Kane's credibility. They had the chance, but didn't even bother... And talking about Dreamer, in his case, the only highlight of him winning the title was the match where he won it, wich to me was good, even the match was called a Hardcore Match, even when WWE did't want to use that term anymore, and using it again at Battleground 2013. But after that, nothing happened sadly. He retained the title agaist Christian in a random RAW match where the other 2 world titles where on the line that night with better matches, and on top of that they made him lose the championship back to Christian at Night of Champions, in freaking Philadelphia!! And the thing that angers me the most was that WWE totally wasted their rematch, making it an Extreme Rules Match, wich was great, to take place at ECW, only to give us at SummerSlam a match between Christian and William Regal that only lasted 8 seconds. To me, that Extreme Rules Match between Dreamer and Christian should've been at SummerSlam, but again, totally wasted... WWE had chances to build back the ECW Title and brand after having Vince as champion, and let's not forget the Benoit tragedy, since I also think that Benoit as champion could've been great. They had champions like Morrison, Punk, Kane, Matt Hardy and Christian, but all of them were at the back seat and that was frustrating. I started watching WWE on a regular basis in 2009, and I have to say that even if it wasn't perfect, I really enjoyed Christian's reign, but the problem was that his matches, wich were great only happened on TV, never on PPV. The only time the ECW Championship got a better match than the WWE or World Heavyweight Championships was at TLC 2009, where the Ladder Match between Christian and Shelton Benjamin stole the show, over the Tables Match for the WWE Championship between John Cena and Sheamus (I admidt, I don't like Tables matches), and the Chairs Match between The Undertaker and Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship, and even the TLC Match between Jeri-Show and DX for the Unified Tag Team Championship. But sadly, by the time the Ladder Match, the writing was on the wall. I hope Brian see this comment and give his opinion about that. Hope you all have a great day

Lol this is actually pretty spot on.

Difference is Jason David Frank has a actual win record.

Funny enough JDF publically threw his name in the hat for Punk's first MMA opponent. Probably would have been a major money maker. Result would have been the same though most likely.

@@jaredthehawk3870 If I recall Punk dissed JDF for the challenge as well.

The funniest thing of all is that, depending on what Punk says on AEW following his burial by Moxley on Dynamite to unify the AEW World Titles, this could become even more true! JDF just this past weekend at Power Morphicon told his own fans that he's now leaving the Green Ranger behind, saying that "it's time to grow up" & to start telling "darker" stories (i.e. he's creating his own "original work, do not steal"). Even if it doesn't happen right away, there is the chance that Punk, should he let his ego blow up too much again (anyone remember his "I never main evented WrestleMania, so my entire wrestling career was worthless" rant not long after he left WWE?) I could easily see him do something similar to what JDF just did.

Today

I remember that 🤣

Agreed, he's a good worker but has too much of an ego. I really hope his return is much better

He did say Charles Montgomery Punk 😂

Or the episode where Lisa becomes a vegetarian and the pig keeps flying away “It’s just a little airborne but it’s still good”

Give it about a year and half.

@@attiepollard7847 Honestly even if you take out the locker room part of it. I'm sure Punk would still be in the same situation. You would need to suspend him for what he did at the scrum not that it would really matter if you did or not seeing how regardless he would be off TV for the next 6 to 8 months with his latest injury. Hard for me to have any Sympathy for Punk in this situation. As this all started because Page had one sentence in his promo that Punk didn't know about. That literally nobody thought anything of the line. Yet it angered Punk so much that he felt he had to go off script as well to put down Page in a much worse way. Which then lead to all these journalist speculating as to what the beef is between the two. IDK if the EVP's actually leaked anything to the press as all the journalist say they never got any info from them. Which even if they did get the info from them why couldn't Punk have just gone to Khan or any other higher up and told them about it and let them handle it. Instead he had to go totally scorched earth and make the entire locker room and promotion seem like they were bush league.

Based Comrade Austin sticking it to the upper class. Austin being a commie is now canon. Whoever thumbs up this comment is deserves a helicopter ride like their commie friends.

The problem was they did that angle multiple times with different people.

With increasingly diminishing returns, too.

@@DasNordlicht91 I mean, beating up your boss is kind of a one note story so it's not surprising it only worked once.

@@Gurziak Ol’ Stone Cold gonna unionize the means of production, WHAT?

1 year 😂

"Skinny fat" is actually a term that exists, the thing is only gym freaks like Triple H ever say something like that.

@@tafua_a IE, little to no muscle and a gut

According to JR's podcast one of the biggest things Triple H didn't like about Punk was he thought he had a soft oversized ass

Wow, I am... learning a lot about this

Same

@@comixproviderftw_02 both great videos

he never drew a dime for Vince, nothing of value was lost by Punk dipping out.