The Summer Of Punk | Wrestling's Worst Booking
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🗓️ 18 May 2024
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Simon Miller talks about the worst of wrestling booking in the summer of CM Punk.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered why CM Punk kind of got fed up with |
| 0:02.3 | W. W. W. in 2014 and left? |
| 0:05.0 | That's kind of what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:07.4 | Calling the worst booking ever may be a bit of a stretch because after a very |
| 0:10.4 | topsy-turvy 2011, CM Punk would go on to do a record-setting |
| 0:14.5 | W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. |
| 0:16.8 | It was very surprising for the modern day. |
| 0:18.8 | As we had seen plenty of times before, though with other superstars, even though CM Punk was the champion he was never really |
| 0:25.5 | treated like the top guy sometimes in fact often it wasn't even in the main event |
| 0:30.4 | so where do we start? Well at the start. Gonna sake. |
| 0:34.5 | Because yeah punk did indeed sign with WWE back in 2005 and if you weren't around then |
| 0:39.1 | trust me it was totally huge because punk had made his name on the indie scene |
| 0:43.4 | didn't really look like a quote-on-quote typical w w w wy guy |
| 0:46.7 | so when he did get his foot in the door all of a son a bunch of other people |
| 0:49.9 | were like wait a minute if he can it, maybe I can do it too. |
| 0:53.4 | So he really did help change the game. |
| 0:55.1 | Instantly there was clearly some confusion between punk himself and the powers of the |
| 0:58.3 | B because he did find himself in OVW, but actually in hindsight this was like a sliding doors moment because do you know who he'd meet down there that would essentially change the shape of his career? |
| 1:08.0 | None other than Paul Hayman. |
| 1:10.0 | Because he realized instantly the punk could be a top guy so he pushed him as such in his own brand |
| 1:15.0 | and he ever wondered where does the phrase poor Heyman guy come from or seeing punk if you |
| 1:20.0 | can believe it was one of the OGs. |
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