Official Raw Thread For 7/11/11 - Why Does Volare Have To Close Tonight?

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Xero I honestly find it hard to believe that WWE is going to push Punk this hard and fast right out the door. Yes, it could be WWE doing the "see, we can push you and use you right" BS, but he's being booked so strong and is getting over by such a ridiculous amount that they're only adding to his name value. His name value is bigger right now than it ever has been. And WWE is going to let that walk away from them? Seems unlikely.

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw Yeah. That's basically my feelings on the whole thing as well. I know reports indicate he is really leaving, but I'm finding it hard to believe.

I see this a little differently. It's time to cue up:

[wishful thinking] Punk does "leave", in the same manner that Daniel Bryan was "fired". He takes the belt (i'm not going to paraphrase Vince Russo from Bash at the Beach again, but you get the idea) and we don't see it again. He gives it that re-design he touched on in tonight's promo gold. Possibly chucks the spinner off the "Roody-Poo Bridge".

Punk actually gets to "leave" with the belt in the way Heyman described the "Sandman's blind" angle, where Sandman stayed home to sell it. He gets to defend it in a way similar to how the whole Tazz/Awesome thing went down over the ECW belt. This sells he's actually "gone from WWE", gets the internets abuzzed with "how much of this is a shoot?" and an "embarassed" Vinnie Mac eventually "re-signs" Punk, Cabana, and possibly by the sounds of things, The Kings of Wrestling.

Cena gets "fired" (read: they finally give their workhorse a well deserved gorram vacation) to have The Rock come back, close to next year's Wrestlemania, of course, to get him "re-hired" for that match.

And we see a return of the WWE Ice Cream Bars. [/wishful thinking]