[quote name='mykevermin']The whole point of the angle was centered around Punk coming back to challenge the legitimacy of the WWE Champion. They pulled the trigger on that so quickly they might as well have not done the angle at all.
Raise your hand if you give a flying
who wins between Punk and Cena at Summerslam? Why now? How is it any different from your staple "they guy who loses the belt gets a rematch" PPV match?
Punk says shut up and see how it plays out because HE'S PAID TO. If you think, as he claims on the Simmons podcast, that he was actually not under a WWE contract for a *second*, you're a mark of the highest order. A dumb
who might as well believe the Black Scorpion could truly perform magic, who thought Billy and Chuck were really going to get married, who really thought that Lucifer was poisonous when he bit Macho Man.
Punk is a wrestler, ergo a worker, ergo a *liar*. The other side of the "liar" coin is the "protecting the business" coin. He's doing just that - simultaneously railing against the "fantasyland" he mocked at Comic Con at the same time he's helping create it by lying through his teeth to Simmons.
Don't get me wrong - I wish more people would protect the business and lie. I'm sick of seeing WWE heels hugging troops, and working in soup kitchens, and doing radio interviews. I want to see them do heelish things, like dropkick infants and yell at children in restaurants.
The point is this: the only creatively unique and interesting part of the angle is over, WWE
ed it up in the process because they have the patience of Veruca Salt (the literary character, not the awful 1990's band). What's left? Title vs title at a PPV where the logical title match would have featured the same two guys anyway if Punk hadn't left? A PPV that will end with John Cena and Randy Orton holding their respective titles aloft? Whoooooop-a-dee-
in'-doo, my man.
WWE tried something unique and dangerous. They took their writing and their programming up to the precipice of a cliff. They looked over the edge, hinting that they would jump. They paused. Then they walked away. WWE took a magnificent thing and killed it off the first chance they got.
So don't defend them. First of all, they don't need defending, they're a plenty profitable company without you carrying the water for them like a goddamned fool.
Second of all, you *know* they're writing week to week. I don't know if you have insider information about some awesome aspect of the angle and how it will play out. But WWE has shown, ever since the WCW InVasion (which was so long ago it was still WWF at the time), that they can do maybe one proper build per year. Most of the rest is bullshit. They write, in a panic, week to week for the current week. They don't know where they're going.
And I don't trust them on taking an interesting direction to get there. I've watched WWE tv since Wrestlemania 4. I know they haven't shown any creative capacity for nearly a decade now. WWE programming is all the evidence I need to show me that this feud is already
ed. There is nothing to the contrary in their programming.
But here's the difference between you and I: I'm a person of dignity, and I admit when I'm wrong. So next Monday, if Punk comes out and makes a ton of sense, cuts an awesome promo, and sells me on a $60 PPV - I'll admit I was wrong. I'll admit I was too cynical, and that the angle has taken a fascinating turn.
But when Punk comes back and cuts a milquetoast promo in the ring with Cena, and the highlight of his promo is that he's going to be on an ice cream bar, and he's the rightful champ, and WWE is back to the same old shit it's always doing - you'll still say "be patient, it'll get better, have some patience." And you won't admit you're wrong when Cena wins both belts in a boring, by-the-numbers-five-moves-of-doom Summerslam main event. You'll shut your mouth and act like you never said this had the chance to turn out good.
Dignity: I have it, therefore that's where we differ.[/QUOTE]
Are you kidding me? Dignity? You don't even know who the
I am. I have more faith in Punk than I do the WWE. That's why I'm taking this wait and see approach. Punk knows how hot he is and how important this angle is. I don't think he'll allow it to mess up. He's that good. If Cena wins with the 5 moves of doom at SummerSlam after getting his ass kicked the whole match, I'll gladly come on here and say that WWE dropped the ball. Now kindly go
yourself.
It's even funnier if you watch the show and think of it in WWE context, especially the opening narrative.
