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Originally Posted by SEXUAL VANILLA
You are wrong about Punk though. Yeah people talked about it but it was not any more than Bret coming back to the WWE, HBK retiring or Flair retiring. What do you mean within American culture? Do you just mean American wrestling fans? Because the WWE was not talked about that much more than it is normally. It definitely brought more intrigue into the product but to say that CM Punk revitalized WWE back into American culture is plain false and the ratings decreasing since then prove that. He sold some shirts and got some online articles written about him. lol that is nothing compared to wrestling being cool and half the kids in middle school owning an Austin, Rock, DX or NWO shirt.
Sadly the REAL most talked thing since the Attitude Era was the whole Benoit thing but that was for different reasons obviously.
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What? Do you even watch espn, read any sports magazine, or follow any type of media coverage at all? When punk dropped that promo Jim more, sportcenter, mlb.com, several journalists for major papers, and thousands of others were hanging on every moment from it. How is that not revitalizing into American culture? To take a stale sport and shove it front and center, all by yourself, with no support, is the epitome of that.
Also ratings NOW do not reflect on punks summer at all. It reflects how poor of a writing crew wwe really has. Punk gave them an easy gold mine and they spent their gold to make a half hearted kliq based storyline.....but left out a majorities of its members, yes I realize some are not overly welcome back but still, you're either in or out with that type of story. We saw an angle with steph start and go nowhere, saw Cena get screwed by HHH that went nowhere, and were forced to watch Nash and johnny ace fumble through their lines week in and week out. Add that to Michael Cole constantly tells us the world champion is boring, that the divas don't matter, and everything but the miz is a joke.....its not rocket science to see why people tune out......and it has nothing to do with punks promo