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Peace out, Chavo Guerrero. He was the last guy left from the WCW buyout and I guess he finally got sick of just being used to make other guys look good.
 
That promo by Punk at the end of Raw was solid gold!!!!!!

Wow! It really sounded like he was shooting on EVERYBODY. Little hints like the curse word edit makes it suspicious as likely a work, but man oh man he was on fire! Heck, maybe it was a shoot and Vince or someone made the call to just let it roll for a little while. I would. Steiner did a shoot on Flair back in WCW which they let roll because it was solid gold. Could be the same thing here. Regardless, he sold it well as a shoot. Blew everyone out of the water though: Cena, Hogan, "Dwayne", and Laurenitis.
 
Well RAW (like most live TV) is on a delay so them editing swear words, which was him calling John Laurintitas a douchebag, would be normal. It was certainly one of the best wrestling promos in a long time. Certainly one of the best worked shoot style ones I've ever heard since Joey Styles went on his "I hate WWE" rant a few years back.

I hope this leads to Punk and Vince having a shoot style confrontation, that would be some of the best TV seen anywhere in years. Those two verbally swinging for the fences on each other would be great stuff.
 
That had to be a shoot. There's no way that wasn't a shoot. They didn't cut of Joey's mic with that "I Hate WWE" rant, but they did with Punk. And he said so many things that were true that it's ridiculous.

I already liked him before but this makes him a god in my eyes :laugh:
 
A couple of reasons that point to it being a work:

1. He still stands to collect a big main event payday at his alleged last WWE appearance at the PPV in a few weeks. Punk's made some good money in 6 years and maybe he's really frugal (he's def. saved some dough on not going out and drinking). That being said, I can't see someone as smart as him doing anything to jeopardize a PPV payday

2. They edited out whatever comment he made about John Laurenitis, which means they're on some kind of a delay. 30 seconds at least but it could be 1 to 2 minutes. That's about half of the length of his rant. They could have cut it or pulled the plug a LOT sooner.

3. If this was totally not part of the show, why no security to come and escort him backstage?

Also to people talking about the Joey Styles rant, if I recall correctly that was both before or right during the PG era turn, and I'm almost positive it was before the Superbowl wardrobe malfunction that's now infamous that caused several t.v. networks that weren't using delays on live feeds to start using delays. I'm not as expert to know when WWE switched to a delay on their live shows, but its very possible they had no delay back then that they have in place now. They may not have had the time and chance to react to pull the plug with advanced screening of the show 30 seconds to a few minutes in advance of it hitting the airwaves.

4 (Update after reading WWE article) - that makes me even more suspicious. With the comments he made, why not just fire him? He's "allegedly" leaving in 3 weeks anyways. You're going to suspend the guy instead of terminating him???

Plus if you want to pull a work/shoot like that, you want it to look as authentic as possible. The whole cutting the mic and the cold finish would all be part of the work to make it look like a good shoot angle.

I'm calling work as my theories above leave it a little more than suspicious to being a real shoot. If this were the PPV, I'd buy it as a shoot, but not 3 weeks before.

Update - Another thing that struck me, is that I've read that WWE's ratings have been falling into the toilet. Good ol "shoot" on a guy that's allegedly leaving at the PPV is a great way to spark excitement in the wrestling community. "Holy crap did you hear what Punk said Last week ?!?!?!?!?!?!"

Update 2 - Look at the fishy wording from the WWE article about his "suspension" (directly quoted from the article)

"With his WWE contract expiring on July 17, one can only assume that this suspension effectively terminates CM Punk’s tenure with WWE.”

One can only assume that it effectively terminates his contract? When have you ever heard them use a phrase like that when someone is legitimately leaving or being legitimately suspended?? Sounds like code talk to me that he'll be back. Remember when Matt Hardy was released and had his legitimate feud with Edge where he made several appearances from the crowd? I can see Punk buying some tickets to next week's show or showing up as a "fan" in disguise.

Update #3 - Next week's raw show was taped right after this one and the results are already online.
 
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Guys, it's definitely a work. A worked shoot to be sure, but still a work. This is right up there with the promo Paul Heyman did screaming at Vince making wrestling a dirty word back in 2001 or so when they were doing the ECW/WCW Alliance angle. This will lead into angle where most likely Punk and Vince will have a confrontation (which will be awesome) and lead to his final match at the PPV in his hometown.
 
Damn, now that I know it's a worked shoot, it kinda ruined it for me. Though CM Punk is most likely talking about what he truly felt, like with Paul Heyman's and Joey Styles' worked shoots. I will say this though, it makes me look forward to next week's RAW a whole lot more now...
 
DarkSpark said:
The man's got wings, it's about time they stopped forcing him to take the goddamn bus!
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perfectly said. last night was one of the greatest promos i have ever seen since i first started watching in late 97/early 98. cm punk is truly excellent, near perfect at what he does.
 
Damn i just watched that promo CM punk cut on worldstar

He sounded pissed, im glad he had the balls to do that

best promo i've seen in a lonngg time
 
CM Punk is a god

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