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The mere fact they signed The Rock to such a massive deal and are building (or will build) towards Rock v Cena essentially tells you that:
1) The casual fan has basically given up watching WWE altogether
2) Cena has faced and beaten every fucking major star in WWE (except Undertaker) in the last 4 years
3) WWE can't sell Cena vs anyone else (except Undertaker) to the masses because it's been done before too often
Which begs the question: Why Rock and not Undertaker?
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This whole CM Punk angle has been done before in Ring of Honor....
Punk signed his WWE developmental contract on the ROH championship belt!
Not sure who is "writing" this angle in WWE or how it got approval from Vince but either way the whole "Is it legit or not" side of it makes it the only thing worth looking at in wrestling today.
CM Punk cut an awesome promo on Raw last Monday night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OS9wZGb_3g
Name drops Vince, Hogan, Rock/Dwayne, Heyman, Lesnar, uses the term "wrestler", New Japan, Ring of Honor, Colt Cobana, John Laurinaitis, "idiotic daughter", "doofus son in law"...
LMAO - and the internet goes crazy with "work" or "shoot" comments...
Newsflash people - the golden rule of wrestling = if it's on TV it's a work
And if you don't know who John Laurinaitis is... here is his WWE Corporate profile:
http://corporate.wwe.com/company/bios/j_laurinaitis.jsp
He's Road Warrior Animal's brother!
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Just heard the audio on Jim Rome, really good.
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I have to say this CM Punk angle is the best thing I've seen since the NWO/Austin v Vince stuff.
It seems "real", it's essentially brand new to the masses (who watches Ring of Honor?) and Punk will be a massive star when he returns to WWE.
The question is: Will he be a "returning hero" or stay "heel"?
As long as they don't end up having Punk play Austin and Triple H play Vince I'll be happy - cause we've seen that re-hash a thousand times
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This time the WWE got it right. Instead of dragging a Shawn Micheals-like storyline on for months, they struck when the coals were still hot.
Of course, the ending is so predictable. Summerslam here in LA. Cena v. Punk to unify the titles. Vince screws over Punk to get Cena the belt, and we find out the following RAW that Vince never left -- the HHH angle was a ruse to lure Punk back. Punk is pissed. Cena, who went on and on about not wanting to look like the corporation is helping him out, looks EXACTLY like that, and he's pissed too.
HHH turns heel as he forms another "Corporation" (perhaps with the remaining members of Nexus, who turn on Punk). Cena finally becomes the anti-hero I've wanted him to be for so long, no longer giving a shit about the well-being of the WWE. Punk becomes a new "People's Champ".
If they pull this, we've got ourselves a PG-rated Attitude Era. I believe Cena (or another wrestler) even alluded to this a while back that a PG Attitude Era is possible.
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