“And I cried as a result of I knew I used to be leaving a spot that I like, and it was once a house, and I knew the place I used to be going, wasn’t going to be simple for a man like me. As a result of I’m one in all you. So I have a look at it like this: Aug. thirteenth, 2005, I left skilled wrestling.”
That’s what Punk stated upon his first look in AEW in August of 2021. So what modified?
Did WWE trade? Now not truly. It’s more than likely a nicer position to paintings with Vince McMahon sidelined (for now) and Triple H operating issues. However how it perspectives wrestling hasn’t truly modified. The suits are all mainly the similar. There’s nonetheless a seek for giant, empty moments and spectacle that makes it appear essential (and each and every so regularly, it if truth be told is). It’s nonetheless sports activities leisure, no longer wrestling. That works for numerous folks, and that’s completely cool, but it surely doesn’t paintings for the ones Punk at all times stated he represented.
How did CM Punk finish up again at WWE?
Did CM Punk trade? Alternate sufficient to return again to WWE? No, no longer truly both. As a result of he was once by no means what he stated he was once. The entire facade of talking fact to energy or giving voice to the unvoiced or status for one thing upper inside of wrestling was once a canopy, a brilliantly performed quilt to make certain, to masks the egomaniacal, petty particular person Punk has at all times been. The indicators had been at all times there. Any individual that proudly straight-edge typically has the largest flashing “asshole” gentle going off above their heads.
Punk’s go back to WWE places his entire occupation in a distinct viewpoint, no less than to those that actually beloved him. Or it will have to, although it will no longer, for the reason that Punk has been this type of sensible performer he can have them brainwashed without end. The status up for the little man act holds little water when one returns to a spot that he stated destroyed him simply to settle rankings with outdated bosses and deposit some massive assessments. There’s not anything incorrect with getting the remaining massive assessments one can in this type of restricted window in a troublesome business, after all. Punk informed everybody he was once one thing greater than that, although. Constructed a cult on it, in reality.
The person who says wrestlers will have to have a union rejoins WWE, which has beaten union efforts prior to. Mr. Trans Rights will reasonably most likely carry out on one of the crucial displays in Saudi Arabia, or no less than be a part of the corporate that does. How did he used to really feel about that once more?
Punk’s best worry has at all times been Punk. The “campaign” he waged in opposition to WWE when he was once there now appears to be like to be the whining it at all times was once. As his new boss stated way back, “It’s by no means sufficient trade for you until you’re on most sensible.”
He was once given a 400+ day reign as champ. He complained about ice cream sandwiches. He was once given the risk to jot down his personal finishing in AEW. He blew it up over meant web rumors. If you wish to imagine that his 2d stint in AEW was once if truth be told at all times a plan to get himself fired so he may just stick it to the corporate through going again to WWE, it’s a bit of of 4-D chess however we received’t forestall you.
Why, tho?
Perhaps Punk has extra in his thoughts than simply massive luggage of filthy lucre to finish his occupation. Perhaps he truly does wish to spoil AEW. Perhaps he’s going to, although it’s an extended shot. He’ll truly stick it to Tony Khan that approach. Aside from Khan will nonetheless be the son of a billionaire operating each the Jaguars and Fulham. So he’ll more than likely be tremendous.
No, he’ll harm the enthusiasts who’ve crawled in the back of him for twenty years or extra now, lapping the whole lot up. Those he stated he at all times spoke for, those he stated he fought for in his first pass round with WWE, those he stated he was once returning for in AEW. He’ll chuck all of them below a bus as a result of he felt slighted about an web rumor and that AEW didn’t let him bodily assault his bosses, two times, with out penalties.
Punk’s “fact” has at all times been proving he’s proper, it doesn’t matter what’s in the best way. And his model of “being proper” is no matter and all that he desires, not anything much less. He’ll return on the whole lot he stood for, or informed everybody he did, merely to turn out Khan and AEW incorrect. He’ll take WWE’s cash and the entire tactics the corporate violates what he stated he was once as an individual and wrestler simply to turn out that corporate is administered higher than the opposite guys. He’ll do all of it to turn out a fully useless meltdown at a wrestling press convention was once the proper factor to do, as he sees it.
He doesn’t care about “wrestling.” He doesn’t care about his enthusiasts. He cares about proving CM Punk proper.
Inform me once I’m telling lies.
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