Thread: For those of you skeptical about CM Punk and "ball dropping"
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Old 09-19-2011, 02:35 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by Xero View Post
He would have lasted a while longer, and I think he could have been turned into another Miz-like guy for the media. I think that ship has sailed, though. I don't think it would have lasted forever, but I think the immediate cut off shows a problem, and not "flavor of the week" problem.
Most of that main stream attention came from wrestling haters like Jim Rome and Colin Cowherd at ESPN and other mainstream reporters getting a hard on because they thought a wrestler actually shot his mouth off about WWE on live television and were looking for a story to bury wrestling, not because they suddenly gave a shit about pro wrestling or looked at Punk and immediately saw his star potential as an A List Hollywood celebrity. He dropped off in the mainstream media because they had no use for him once it was revealed that it was a work.

Miz has crossover appeal in the same way Otunga has crossover appeal. People are familiar with them and show marginal interest in them because of their reality show experiences and spouse (in Otunga's case). If they were regular wrestlers it would be a different story.

Yes, Punk delivered an amazing promo but you fail to give WWE credit for giving him the platform to cut that promo and say the things he said. I guarantee you if Vince, Stephanie or even Hunter had a problem with it, we never would have heard it. Also, perhaps the most brilliant part of it was them concluding it by cutting his mic, because that's what made it seem real.

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Like I said, my whole point is that WWE is making Punk an insignificant part of the storyline by the week, and also WWE-izing him (for example, that minute of him doing the "gagging" sounds was Cena-esq).
Why do you give Punk credit for that brilliant "shooter" promo we all love, but say he's being WWE-ized for promos that don't go over as well? I think he has the same amount of influence over his promos as he did then, but they're not having the same effect because the shock value in what he is saying is gone.
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