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I only remember CM Punk existed when people post about him so I think the answer is "sure, if you were a fan you'll remember him" I don't think WWE has built a lasting memorable legacy for anyone since Cena was first made The Guy and the last like ten plus years have been completely forgettable interchangeable nonsense
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D.N. Nation posted:all matches on that card: Billy Gunn was also in the main of the go-home show for Full Gear 2020 (Cody & GunnClub vs. Dark Order).
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Mar 21, 2021 17:05
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I was completely checked out of wrestling when CM Punk was active so I don't really have any clue why he gets the reverence he does or what made the Pipe Bomb so special.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:13
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Pylons posted:I was completely checked out of wrestling when CM Punk was active so I don't really have any clue why he gets the reverence he does or what made the Pipe Bomb so special. It was and is a very eloquent summary of everything that's wrong with WWE. Then again it literally was a decade ago and every problem he brings up is still there or even worse now, so yeah.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:21
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CM Punk's legacy to me is every time people went 'GOTTA MAKE ROMAN LOOK STRONG' in complaint to Roman winning things, thus showing that any fandom of Punk had nothing to do with anything he ever said and everything to do with what people wanted Punk to be saying.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:31
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i agree that there weren't any real fans of cm punk
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https://twitter.com/WWERollins/status/1373671249377955848?s=20
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Mar 21, 2021 17:37
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punk may look like a dweeb now, but wait til he becomes what he railed against and comes back part-time to main event a wrestlemania even that wont look as dweeby as that tyler black tweet though, yikes
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Mar 21, 2021 17:38
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I appreciate that Seth is here to make everyone with bad twitter skills look a little better by comparison.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:43
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I ... wait ... really? This is what Rollins has been reduced to? Sweet Jesus, you stop watching wrestling for a few years and then see ... this. I don't even know how to make heads or tails of it.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:44
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If his goal is making people physically recoil with cringe at tweets then he's nailing his character
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Mar 21, 2021 17:45
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I saw recently where also bad Twitter poster oney lorcan said he was paid a sum of money to stop all caps tweeting and I hope to god it’s a. True and b. Seth rollins’s money
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Cavauro posted:i agree that there weren't any real fans of cm punk Who
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Mar 21, 2021 17:51
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Timby posted:I ... wait ... really? This is what Rollins has been reduced to? Rollins has always been bad at Twitter independent of WWE.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:52
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Timby posted:I ... wait ... really? This is what Rollins has been reduced to? One the one hand you're right but on the other hand at least he isn't crying and pissing himself at the sight of a spooky clown, so it could still be worse.
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Mar 21, 2021 17:56
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So does the WWE Network as it is just cease to exist and you have to sign up for Peacock to watch PPVs?
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Mar 21, 2021 18:05
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The Stroker Ace posted:So does the WWE Network as it is just cease to exist and you have to sign up for Peacock to watch PPVs? Not only that but you get less content because most of it wont be added until months from now! What a bargain!
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Mar 21, 2021 18:06
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Orange Carlisle posted:Not only that but you get less content because most of it wont be added until months from now! What a bargain! Where do I sign up!?!?
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Pylons posted:I was completely checked out of wrestling when CM Punk was active so I don't really have any clue why he gets the reverence he does or what made the Pipe Bomb so special. It was years of culmonation building to that point, up until then Punk had been year in and year out putting out sone of the best promos and best matches and best feuds in the company but always been passed over or ignored because he looked funny. I'm not even sure they publish it anymore but the DVD CM Punk: Best in the World is one of the best pro wrestling documentaries made as it features tonnes of talking heads who still at the time of the documentary with no idea how he is so popular and iver - most notoriously Michael Hayes but even John Cena has no clue why Punk is so beloved. Also he's kind of proof that not only do you not have to be big to be a great wrestler, Punk's 6'1" but i mean guys like Bryan and Jericho, but also you don't even have to be athletic to be a great pro wrestler. Punk's had classics with Cena, Undertaker, Lesnar, the latter two both who are referred to as both thinking he wasn't good and then shocked by how good he was when they wrestled him. So yeah the pipebombs a meme but theres years of backstory to how this happened sych as his feud with Morrison, Jeff Hardy, the Straight Edge Society... its a lot.
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Mar 21, 2021 18:27
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Lid posted:It was years of culmonation building to that point, up until then Punk had been year in and year out putting out sone of the best promos and best matches and best feuds in the company but always been passed over or ignored because he looked funny. Right it's a moment in time that can only be appreciated with the right context. Kind of like DBRY's run up to Wrestlemania 30. The problem is since like someone else said a lot of these problems still exist or are in fact worse the context is now lost because it was all for naught.
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Mar 21, 2021 18:53
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The Stroker Ace posted:So does the WWE Network as it is just cease to exist and you have to sign up for Peacock to watch PPVs? Wont it still exist as is for people outside of the US? if so, just use a vpn
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Mar 21, 2021 19:12
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Punk's run is like America in the seventies, where there was a brief chance to make things better but the guys in charge decided to double down on everything that sucks instead
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Mar 21, 2021 19:13
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lol Jesus Christ CM Punk was insanely cool, insanely over, the best in that ring, in that announcer's desk and on that microphone
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Copying this from a Bleacher Report retrospective of the PG eraquote:Without the glossy presentation of a child-friendly product that WWE produced during the so-called PG Era, the Summer of Punk 2.0 may never have happened. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2901090-the-legacy-of-wwes-pg-era-and-what-comes-next-12-years-later
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Karma Tornado posted:Punk's run is like America in the seventies, where there was a brief chance to make things better but the guys in charge decided to double down on everything that sucks instead
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Mar 21, 2021 19:16
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Duke Pukem posted:Wont it still exist as is for people outside of the US? if so, just use a vpn It’s still available internationally “for now” which is an even weaker statement/show of support than the company was willing to give for the US Network’s survival a year ago. If they’re not actively looking for buyers or transition methods for those other countries, it’d be surprising; international Network has and has had significantly less subs than the US Network that was pretty openly considered a failure internally
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Mar 21, 2021 19:20
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As someone who hadn't watched for years, I actually heard about the pipe bomb a few weeks later and tuned back in, but it looked like he was going to feud with HHH or something, and I tuned back out.
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Mar 21, 2021 19:30
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I just saw the latest smackdown in entirety. What the hell is going on with Shane and strowman Are they trying to garner sympathy for strowman and do something similar to stone cold vs mr mcmahon
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Mar 21, 2021 19:35
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they cut icp’s performance out of summerslam 98 on peacock it’s safe to say the company will never learn
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Kunabomber posted:I just saw the latest smackdown in entirety. What the hell is going on with Shane and strowman yes
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Mar 21, 2021 19:38
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I don't know why but this feels like such a Dan Ryckert thing. Like I half expect him to come out managing Seth tonight.
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Kunabomber posted:I just saw the latest smackdown in entirety.
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Mar 21, 2021 19:44
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Now that recaps aren't being posted here anymore I'll be able to be shocked when something truly crazy happens. Feels like the last tie to WWE is dying. I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where we don't even have a WWE thread.
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I dunno man, it's good for when you're folding laundry or doing dishes Edit: also because of the sheer amount of talent that does produce legitimately good angles and stories, like the hurt business when they first rose up and like 50% of drew mcintyres championship Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Mar 21, 2021 19:46
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this is funny but not in the way WWE intended. Or maybe it is? It’s hard to tell anymore.
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Shard posted:Now that recaps aren't being posted here anymore I'll be able to be shocked when something truly crazy happens. Feels like the last tie to WWE is dying. I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where we don't even have a WWE thread. Lets place our bets on who will found the WWE version of TNA to keep the "real" promotion alive, or if they'll just takeover TNA by force and TNA will becomke TNA for an entirely different promotion 20 years later. Hell WWE is already like early TNA with the weekly pay per views.
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Grendels Dad posted:Wait, what? Why? I think Rollins is feuding with Cesaro and so Cesaro and Nakamura are now friends again(since they're both now faces again randomly)? So it's just Rollins vs Friend of Cesaro.
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collocation posted:As someone who hadn't watched for years, I actually heard about the pipe bomb a few weeks later and tuned back in, but it looked like he was going to feud with HHH or something, and I tuned back out. You made the right choice, because of course Punk lost that feud.
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Kunabomber posted:I just saw the latest smackdown in entirety. What the hell is going on with Shane and strowman I hadn't considered this before but it both fits and is hilarious because they think it's even remotely close to what they did with Austin. Only this time their Austin is so very obviously a shoot bootlicker and also not a tenth as talented as Austin, and their McMahon is a sweaty red balloon that goes Fffffffft a minute into every match.
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Hey if shane o'mac is willing to get into the ring with someone that actively attends super spreader events outside of the thunderdome and has snot and spittle running down his beard in every match let him have it
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