Retro Ups And Downs - CM Punk's WWE Raw Pipebomb - 10 Years On
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🗓️ 10 July 2021
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Our retro review of WWE Raw from June 27 2011 where CM Punk cut his now infamous pipe bomb promo. Also including Kofi Kingston vs Dolph Ziggler, John Cena vs R Truth in a tables match, CM Punk vs Kane, Nikki Bella vs Kelly Kelly in a submission match, Big Show vs Alberto Del Rio in a cage match and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | 10 years! I mean, that is just terrifying. We may as well start digging our own graves |
| 0:14.0 | now. And I'll make sure I give the Undertaker a call, as long as we promise him a 10-minute |
| 0:19.3 | long entrance, I think he'll agree. But yeah, a decade ago today, 27th June 2011, CM Punk |
| 0:25.5 | guy is now infamous pipe-bomb promo, and kind of changed the wrestling world. Yeah, I don't |
| 0:30.6 | mean that the next week's Raw did crazy ratings all of a sudden he actually was back, but I do |
| 0:35.4 | know for a fact, because people go in contact with me, that laps fans were like, oh my gosh, |
| 0:39.4 | who's this CM Punk guy? And that interest surrounding the product started to go up and up and up. |
| 0:44.2 | More importantly, he got people excited about world wrestling entertainment, which is really all |
| 0:48.3 | you ever need to do. And it turns CM Punk into a flipping superstar, he grabbed his ball, |
| 0:54.1 | and he read with it. It wasn't like the whole work to promo, was anything new? I mean, WCW, |
| 0:58.8 | the early 2000s absolutely loved them, but the difference here was that it was real. It wasn't |
| 1:04.2 | forced, and you knew that Punk meant every single word that he said, so given that all his anger |
| 1:08.9 | and animosity was aimed at Vince McMahon, Triple H and John Lauren Itas, three people who were |
| 1:13.4 | basically controlling the damn promotion, you just scratched your head and thought to yourself, |
| 1:17.4 | well, I know they wouldn't allow this to happen, without allowing it to happen, but has he |
| 1:22.9 | maybe just gone into business for himself? And when you do that, wrestling is the best. |
| 1:27.0 | How many mentioned Ring of Honor, Kolkabana, how crap WWE was, and it did something deep down |
| 1:31.7 | inside of you, when you just wanted to grab your phone and text your friends to see if they had |
| 1:36.0 | seen it, and if they hadn't seen it, they'd go watch it and then get back to you, because she just |
| 1:39.5 | wanted to talk about it by that water cooler. The raw drawing force behind it, though, is that we |
| 1:43.8 | were also being served a huge dose of reality, because whilst CM Punk had gone home, my contract |
| 1:49.0 | is up in a few weeks, well behind the scene, his contract was not only up in a few weeks, |
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