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Do you think WWE is gonna push Roman Reigns to the sky when he returns?
I think they will give him a good chance to show what he has. I am fine with that. It’s what they should do with guys. Give them every chance to succeed and if they don’t, you know they never had it to begin with.
I enjoyed that Survivor Series was important this year. What if WWE did a twist on the 1990 Survivor Series and did the Grand Finale Survivor Match, where the winner can choose between a WWE World Title Match at the Royal Rumble or having the #30 spot in the Royal Rumble. This would not only make Survivor Series very relevant, but it would start the Wrestlemania season earlier. We would get important storylines and matches instead of year end filler!
Hmmm, I like the idea of a Survivor match where the winner gets the 30 spot in the Rumble. Maybe have a five-on-five with the top ten guys for the spot. They still would be kind of SOL with the December PPV but with the holiday season, that will always be a hard chestnut to crack.
I just finished watching WCW Greed on the Network & my question is this, did the wrestlers know at this show that they were 8 days away from being bought out? They were pushing new wrestlers (Jason Jett) & introducing new belts (Cruiserweight Tag Titles) at this PPV, so was it just business as usual to them & oblivious to what was coming, or did they do these things knowing full well the end was near?
Everyone who wasn’t lying to themselves knew that the company was on the block due to the impending merger with AOL that Time Warner was heading into. An Eric Bischoff led group had tried to buy the company a few months earlier but failed. Everyone knew they were in trouble. Some suckers believed everything would work out fine but the realists knew that AOL, at the time, was a behemoth and it didn’t like units that didn’t produce a profit (which is ironic given what happened to AOL’s core business). Hamstrung by the expensive contracts that Bischoff gave out, WCW was a money loser and was on the chopping block. It got chopped.
I find it unlikely that CM Punk woke up all of a sudden one day and decided on the spur of the moment to "retire" and leave WWE. So i'll assume it wasn't a quick decision and he knew for some time that he would decide to leave. If that was the case, and he is indeed retired (as he says), why didn't he formally announce it and have some sort of retirement tour or last match? I think back to how well done Ric Flair's retirement tour was done, and even Edge's last speeches in the ring, and wonder why Punk wouldn't prefer something similar to those situations and go out as a hero, instead of the way he did? It would have also eliminated most of the backlash by the fans and WWE he has experienced since leaving.
Check out our coverage of his interview with Colt Cabana elsewhere on the site. Aside from that, he doesn’t care about fan backlash. He didn’t care about a farewell tour. Some guys are marks for that kind of thing, others aren’t. Punk isn’t!
I recently saw a post by Mike Johnson saying a CM Punk return "just isn't happening." I get that it was a bad break up, but this isn't Brock Lesnar we're talking about here. CM Punk loves this business. He lived and breathed this business for years and I don't think the love will ever go away. Do you really think that after a fixed amount of time Punk will never return? I just view him as a guy who loves the business too much to stay out of the ring forever. If WCW or a legit #2 were around, I think we would have already seen him jump.
We have been reporting for MONTHS that all of the “Punk returns soon†headlines on other sites were BS. We reported he was serious about retirement. We reported that he was sick and tired of the business. For whatever reason, some people just didn’t want to believe the truth. They had the “everything is a work†mentality. Everything isn’t a work and I am just glad he has finally said it so maybe people start believing him. The lesson here is that often how people view others is skewed by the way that they think. Only Punk knows how Punk was feeling.
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