Punk Says Being the Best in Wrestling Doesn’t Matter

[R=G]

It is fake though and I dont just mean the fact that its scripted. I mean the fact that it really doesnt seem to matter what you do in the ring, on the mic, or how over you are with the crowd when you arent the chosen one. Its like having a job and being the best at it just to watch the boss' son come in every week do the bare minimum and getting promoted ahead of you. It doesnt matter if thats your lifelong dream job. Its still unsettling and frustrating to get that dream job and learn that its not what its cracked out to be.

I dont get why people are acting like this is such an unreasonable response for him. Obviously after he wentt through everything he went through he learned that it wasnt all it was cracked out to be even after he proved, in his mind, that he was the "best in the world"

People are acting like it's unreasonable because he didn't say this shyt in 2012 when he was booked over the roster and they increased his money over most of the roster.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

I agreed 100% till I got to that last part... WWF/E ain't been strictly a wrestling company since Vince Sr. was running shyt. Almost to the moment Vince Jr. signed Hulk, his intent was to make it mainstream "sports entertainment", as he's been calling it since the 80s. All that MTV/Cyndi Lauper/Mr. T/cartoon show/etc... that's been the aim. The only thing I think has really changed at the root of it, is that Vince has a stubborn unwillingness to change direction. And even that might be a stretch, cause if he coulda squeezed 3-4 more years out of Hogan in the 90s, he probably would've. Coulda been the same thing we've seen happen with Cena. WWE in 2015 is more corporate than it was in say, 1987... but the same mentality fuels it.

That said, Punk is hilarious for this. And not because he doesn't fukk with WWE. But this out of the blue "its fake" stance he has against something he grew up wanting to do, and took seriously in order to be great at it, and took seriously all the way up until he left/got fired... if that ain't a line, I don't know what is.

the point i was trying to make was that, whether you want to call it pro wrestling or sports entertainment, the quality of the product was paramount to the success of the company. pushing the right guys and creating new superstars was a priority. Without a quality show, they had nothing.

now it feels like putting out a quality product is the last thing on the agenda. it doesn't matter who they push it now. all that matters is to them is the brand.

 

[usopp]

This is the same dude who wrestled with a MRSA infection for months... and you think some fukking elbows is supposed to make him switch it up?

Ah fukk! Dirty dishwasher cooties.

 

[DoubleJ13]

Rock didn't flat out leave shyt..he was informed by MTV that he wasn't resigned with the WWE..you're buying into too much of the Cena feud and are out of touch with reality.

And after that happened did Rock go try to figure out the situation with WWE? I'm sure at that point they probably wanted to try & negotiate a different deal if he was going to be in Hollywood the majority of the time, instead of paying him the downside he had at the time. Like their going to tell the Rock fukk off if he wanted to come in & do something.

 

[Golayitdown]

I don't think he meant phony business the way most people consider wrestling phony...

I interpreted it as a business where people aren't straight with you, false/empty promises, etc...

the way you might call people you mingle with fake

Saw it the same way. It seemed like he was using pro wrestling as his scapegoat for him wanting to shyt on WWE directly.

the point i was trying to make was that, whether you want to call it pro wrestling or sports entertainment, the quality of the product was paramount to the success of the company. pushing the right guys and creating new superstars was a priority. Without a quality show, they had nothing.

now it feels like putting out a quality product is the last thing on the agenda. it doesn't matter who they push it now. all that matters is to them is the brand.

Agreed. It's even more ridiculous that they have this stance when their biggest successes over the past 35 years have always been when they crafted a great product.

 

[R=G]

And after that happened did Rock go try to figure out the situation with WWE? I'm sure at that point they probably wanted to try & negotiate a different deal if he was going to be in Hollywood the majority of the time, instead of paying him the downside he had at the time. Like their going to tell the Rock fukk off if he wanted to come in & do something.

If they wanted the Rock at WM 21, which he thought was a sure thing..they would of let him know.

 

[Rosecrans]