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Old 05-29-2012, 12:10 PM   #1
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My dad...
...likes CM Punk. Thinks he is awesome. My dad isn't really a wrestling fan, other than I think having a bit of a soft spot for it, out of nostalgia. He's a 56 year old South African man who spends most of his nights watching cricket... and enjoys Grey's Anatomy?

I don't really talk much wrasslin with the pops, as I don't watch all that much of it anymore... I keep up with the raw and smackdown reports, and watch good matches when they're reported... so I haven't really "Sold" him on CM Punk. Although I do like him, I'm not an uber Punk mark. I like that he can you know... actual wrestle, and takes that aspect of his art seriously. Also like that he's gotten in better shape recently.

But pretty much from what I've gathered; my dad sees him as intelligent, and likes the fact that he clearly not on the juice and the antithesis of a WWE "superstar" as it were.

Why would a 56 year old South African man like CM Punk? What has made Punk burst through the glass ceiling and although he's no John Cena... he's still somewhat of a household name (we ffs he IS the champ after all). I feel even when he's forced to partake in crap WWE "angles" (if you can call them that) he still finds a way to have great matches, and add a bit of his own pinache, no matter how much they try bury him in shit. Essentially he brings legitimacy to the business. I think even for a casual like my dad, it is easy to pick up on that.
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Old 05-29-2012, 12:18 PM   #2
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he has kind of managed to avoid a lot of the usual "cheesy wrestling cliches" even when he's smack bang in the middle of them. He's pretty unique in the sense that he's confident enough, intelligent enough, enough of an actual prick and now has a decent enough spot on the card/people listening to him to look after himself in that sense
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Old 05-29-2012, 12:25 PM   #3
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My roommate is obsessed with Brodus Clay for the exact same reasons.
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Old 05-29-2012, 06:58 PM   #4
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my brother follows him on twitter. don't think he even watches wrestling.

punk comes off like an intelligent wrestling fan. some dude that could just as easily have been sitting on the couch next to you during the ppv as winning a title in it. i think that has something to do with it. he made being boring interesting.
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Old 05-29-2012, 07:34 PM   #5
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Old 05-29-2012, 10:23 PM   #6
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Well, I think one thing that causes people to like Punk (some more than others, certainly) is that Punk has very much an "everyman" personality. He has qualities that let people think, "You know, maybe that really could be me." Even when they really couldn't. He seems accessible in how he's portrayed. (You could say sort of like Spider-Man, who has always been Marvel's "everyman" character, even though he has all the powers.)

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that is at least a large part of why people seem to "get" him.
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Old 05-30-2012, 02:24 AM   #7
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Punk is comfortable in his own skin. Even when his shit is scripted, you can tell he breathes himself into whatever it is he's meant to say. There's something honest and easy to relate to about Punk. It's not anything superficial -- but it's perfect for an ironic age, where Punk's ability to stand outside things and say "Man, this is stupid" is sadly more entertaining than the stuff being presented earnestly.
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Old 05-30-2012, 09:06 AM   #8
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Probably because he is white and tattooed. Probably thinks he is a White supremacist. We all know how older Whites from South Africa feel about the colored....
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Old 05-30-2012, 09:06 AM   #9
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He is comfortable in his white skin. Your father is most likely an apartheid racist.
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Old 05-30-2012, 09:18 AM   #10
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He is comfortable in his white skin. Your father is most likely an apartheid racist.
What the fuck?
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:35 AM   #11
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:57 AM   #12
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Probably because he is white and tattooed. Probably thinks he is a White supremacist. We all know how older Whites from South Africa feel about the colored....
He's also Jewish. Old whites from South Africa generally don't much care for Jews either. Nice try though
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:00 AM   #13
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:53 AM   #14
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He's also Jewish. Old whites from South Africa generally don't much care for Jews either. Nice try though
Bah - Thats right. You have the "Jew Fro".

He is still a racist though.
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