Yep both are smart men to the business there not stupid. They know the story's of bs others like Vince have done and know what there value and worth are to prowrestling period.. and the love what they do also there not 100%all about money ok maybe like 80%so or about that or weed in robs case but still they aren't broke guys they love prowrestling
He indeed went to ufc and humiliate himself, the guy has zero athletic ability, imagine being so bad that your boss had to fire your opponent for not ending you quickly, lmao, cm punk is a joke.
This still rings true to this day. Punk spoke 100% truth. If it wasn't for him, Bryan would've never been in the title picture, in the main event at WrestleMania If it wasn't for Punk.
He was a huge part of what happened. Even though Batista was rejected by the fans at the Rumble, Vince is infamously stubborn. As long as he had his plans, he was going to stick to them. It was going to be Batista-Orton as the main event, and Punk-Triple H as the No.2 match, with Daniel Bryan-Sheamus as No.6 or whatever. Punk leaving changed everything. With the fans already pissed, they would have torn the main event apart without Daniel Bryan there. Punk facilitated Bryan’s moment in a major way.
Let me tell you this, Cm Punk is too sensitive simple as that, wwe is "tough guy" persona business from hulk hogan to stone cold to the rock, it's about big bulky dudes coming in and wrestling and showing their strength and entertaining, kinda like strongman competition, so for someone like cm punk who gave out a loser vibe with piercings and tattoos and whinning and complaining and dont look tough, of course it will not go well with wwe, vince like muscle more than brains which is what the company was made for, big strong guys showing their strength, not some skinny fat dude complaining, poor cm punk ahould have just shut up and obey, instead he went the other way, and humiliate himself on ufc, wwe is the only place where cm punk can look tough, after his ufc debut i lose all respect for him.
@@apostolostvable dude my point is cm punk dont get the culture of wwe and the type of show it is, it has always been about muscle rather than brains, its about being a badass not about knowing what to say, but the world has changed we have arrived in the internet era where everyone has become a snowflake and where nerds and geeks losers who are smart are considered badass got it?
Aside from his own personal frustrations, Punk was trying to warn them about the icebergs they were heading towards. This has aged like fine wine, WWE has aged like milk.
Wwe will live on long after cm punk is gone, wwe is bigger than cm punk, he was never on the level of the rock, he was luckly to have some sensitive generation as fans, he was bitch, whinning and complaining all the time in a tough guy business, he went to ufc and humiliate himself again, he suck so bad that his opponent got fired for not ending the fight quickly lmao now i have never heard anything like this in the ufc before hahaha
Love or hate him but you can't help but to respect Punk for having the balls to stand up for himself in a company known to scare people into thinking they can lose their job or spot at the drop of a hat. CM Punk lit the fuse to a revolution in the pro wrestling industry and I'll always love him for it. Now when I look at wwe it's like seeing an old friend that you don't even recognize anymore. Sure wwe was what made me a pro wrestling fan in the first place but they also took that love I had for them and chucked it out the window. Now even when they do have their occasional interesting angles, I can't trust them to do the right thing. And more often than not I'm right about not trusting them to do the right thing. Glad Punk is back somewhere that clearly does appreciate him because the very first thing we all wanted to see was a promo between Punk and MJF and they gave us that with a proper build. Anyone that hates what Punk is doing now is obviously still suffering from the brainwash effects wwe drilled into many fans. The "flavor of the month" booking I call it. Every story always seems to HAVE to blow off at the PPV and then we're supposed to pretend everything got reset and that the past doesn't matter. That's why I find it entertaining when wrestlers bring up their past in wwe because we have NOT forgotten.
@@TheNepalesevideo I still find it funny how wrestling fans somehow found a bigoted word to refer to other wrestling fans lol guess that makes you a smark 🙄
@@mendozas.action.figures.That Comment litteraly makes it sound, like the beef was more between Punk and Vince which it absolutely wasn't at the time. Punk and Vince had their beef too, but he mainly disliked Hunter not Vince. You even hear it here how speaks about Hunter! They hated each other.
@@watersandblue6001but the problem was mostly vince i think Triple H was if anything more of a suck up. But the complete creative control was Vince and look what vince did to dean ambrose or jon moxley. Triple H learned the fundamentals of the business from vince but Triple H knows what sells and how to book. He is truly bringing it back. If vince was still in charge of creative he wouldnt be back.
What saddens me the most is that whenever Punk and Hunter wrestled their chemistry was fantastic. Their interactions during the Summer of Punk were always top draw. Obviously there’s a lot of resentment here, and from what we’ve witnessed from WWE it’s more than likely that Punk was the first in a long line of performers who fought back after being let down time and time again by poor booking, backstage politics and the embarrassing paranoia that Vince feeds into his locker rooms. If Hunters tenure for NXT says anything he knew all along how wrestling should be booked, and it’s a real shame that he didn’t have that drive when it came to Punk. I hope that if ever they interact again down the road it’s not to the detriment of either man, the way “wrestling” should be.
5:44 That problem has come back to bite WWE hard now. Because they haven’t built other stars, the ratings for the brand has suffered. If you don’t build stars today, you won’t have them when you need them tomorrow.
Just think about how many guys were over with the crowd in the 2010s Nexus, Alex Riley, Ryback, Damien Sandow, Cesaro and Bray Wyatt. All of them could have been Main Eventers. The fucked buried Nexus at Summerslam 2010. Alex Riley had the looks like John Cena and mabye thats why Cena never liked him i don't know. Ryback was buried the moment he lost to Mark Henry at WM 29. Cesaro was over asf with the Crowd but then they screwed him up with Heyman.
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother the problem was that he was over asf and then the moment he became a heyman guy he automatically went from the babyface to a tweener/heel because Heyman was hated because Lesnar beat The Streak. They really screwed up by doing Cesaro vs Brock in 2014/15 that would have been an amazing Match for Cesaro's Legacy.
For me, it's not just a problem with them building stars from the ground up, it's also the fact that they've taken indie darlings that have proven in other promotions that they have what it takes to be a big star in any company and they either waste their talent for the extent of their contract or they release them before they can give them a proper chance to show them how important they can be for the company
@@TheFinishedArticle Not really, that’s a rude thing to say to your coworker. I seriously hope Punk kisses Triple H’s ass because that’s a very unprofessional remark and downright disrespectful. Punk needs WWE, WWE doesn’t need him.
I was a huge punk fan a decade ago when I watched wwe... He always killed on the mic and he worked his ass off in the ring... it always boggled my mind why he was never the top guy and now we know.
You can sorta predict, and it was confirmed by him or his peers later on. Punk and to an extent, his wife Aj is kinda like those emo couple heading to a separate table from the jock football kids like HHH with the homecoming queen in Stephanie with the other cheerleaders like Bella twins. WWE or vince specifically believe getting over means someone used his cheesy original idea, put a spin or edit it to make it their own and then getting a wild cheer e.g New Day and Becky Lynch, unlike Punk a ready made product who play by their own rules.
Because wwe is a tough guy business not a place for emotional sensitive whinning bitches, Punk is too sensitive for wwe, he will not last 1 min in the attitude era, and he dare to complain when wwe has gone really soft? Cm punk is a joke
@@mathefar3845 he was champ but he wasnt treated like a champ. he rarely ever main evented ppvs and was seen as less than important than guys such as cena and rock. (I’m not saying hes more important than either because I know how much of a draw they are but if we are putting this into perspective, he was seen as a shitty champ) for example, his match at over the limit with daniel bryan for the wwe championship was not the main event, but you wanna know what the main event was? john cena vs john laurinatis. thats how low wwe viewed him
@@Igo2hard ya man vince and triple h never liked him coz of that shoot pipebomb promo and always try to overshadowed him at his wwe title reign with cena rock and triple didn't even put him over at night of champions 2011
Even though I respect Booker T a ton, it always hurt more when Sting and CM Punk got fucked over because of HHH, mostly because CM Punk started off in WWECW within a year of me starting watching wrestling, so I felt like I grew up with him, and the fact that I used to love mid 2000's TNA and Sting was a massive part of that love for me
@isthatyoubetha Insinuate all you want, I wrote down my reasons for hating HHH more for fucking over Sting and Punk than Booker on that very comment and there's nothing else to it
When Punk had that 434 day title run I remember the for the whole reign Cena would always go on last and main event even though Punk was the longest reigning and most popular champ for years. WWE gave CM Punk the ball but didn't want him getting more over than their precious WWE lifer Cena. Sounds very toxic.
Tbh Cena or Lesnar had big matches that had to be in the Main Event of the PPV! For example Cena vs Rock WM 28, Cena vs Lesnar ER 2012, HHH vs Brock SS 2012!
@@watersandblue6001 Yes, there were certain situations where Cena's match was absolutely the main event of a ppv. Cena vs Rock or vs Lesnar absolutely deserved to main event. However, you can't tell me Cena vs john laurinaitis deserved to main event more then Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE title
@@watersandblue6001 I still think they could've done rock punk at wm 28 and it would've still been a big event. It was the rocks first wm in 8 years. And rock punk would've been a little different from the formula. Don't get me wrong cena rock was ok. I'm just saying it would've been cool as well.
@@hellohell77 Punk vs Rock at WM 28? No they did everything right with Once in a Lifetime but wm 29 should have been the 3 way punk/rock/cena nobody wanted to see that rematch were cena just won and that silly handshake at the end.
This speaks to everyone who is struggling whether physically or mentally or both in their workplace, that you deserve time off for all of that hard work you do for your job and that taking time off for your mental health isn't a bad thing at all. When you overwork your employees you end up with a bad product and CM Punk showing up in AEW proved that. WWE killed his passion because he was putting in all of his time and effort and not getting anything in return. It's not selfish at all.
He was getting millions of dollars in return for all of his time and effort, wasn’t he? Which is all that WWE technically owed him, not to mention is a whole lot more than most people get from their employers in exchange for dealing with BS… I have to pee in a cup fairly often for my job, if I have a problem with it I’m terminated, period. But what innocent reason could I, or anyone else have for having a problem with that? People tend to side against the “big evil corporation” automatically, especially when it involves a beloved icon like Punk, but I honestly didn’t hear anything from him that warranted sympathy. WWE is a unique type of company when it comes to sports entertainment as they have total control over deciding who to put over and how to best do that. Not like other professional sports where athletes must find success and popularity more organically. So, in exchange for all of his time and effort, the WWE also made him everything he is today. Plenty of talented guys work just as hard and for whatever reason don’t get that push. He got it all and has still never stopped complaining about whatever negativity he had to deal with in exchange.
@@leslieoliverii9035 nobody is comparing trauma. CM Punk’s only gripe is that he didn’t get what HE wanted from the company, not that he didn’t get what he was DESERVED. His parents must’ve been too drunk to teach him he can get further in life using manners. You can’t walk in ANY workplace with an entitled attitude to the point you’re telling the boss how to do his job and expect to get far.
This makes sense now i remember leaving for overseas visit, with cm punk super popular(2012) Came back middle of 2013 and wanted to see where punk was wow what a disappointment. He was midcard again not doing much other then looking like a someone there to lose big name wrestlers. Also he looked sick and that side burn beard thing made him look even more weirdly low tier like before he was popular. Its like they ruined his momentum and stopped his popularity relegating him to just being there to fill a slot.
This has happened quite multiple times in wwe Vince is a great thinker he revolutionalised pro wrestling business and created one of the best characters in short larger than life characters But he always had that guy who was a great worker and was pushed decently and could have main evented wrestlemania but didn't do that be it health issues or booking issues or any other And there were and are those guys who doesn't matter what storyline they are in but end up main eventing mania be it hogan back in the day the austin and rock then golden boy cena frequently hunter and now reigns is just carrying on the tradition by already main eventing mania for like 5 times🤣🤣 that's actually pathetic though but they now have two days of mania so they can bragg about two main events But wwe always trusts on that one guy and for that guy other guy has to sacrifice We don't even need to go that far Dean Ambrose was hottest thing in pro wrestling back in 2015 and 16 he gave wwe the most match in 2015 and was giving some best matches against rollins and hhh And people wanted reigns vs ambrose at mania but what we got reigns vs hhh That is when i finally started to know that wwe had that bias-ness
I have no memory of the HHH and Reigns match. Must have been a stinker but I agree, Ambrose deserved the mania main event. I get Vince doesn't want to push everyone becuase then they could all leave to another company or hollywood but to depend on one guy seems like bad business. It took Punk leaving for them to realize Daniel Bryan was a good idea to main event 30. Nobody wants to see Batista and Orton wrestle for 30 mins! We've seen that a million times Vince!
@Zenix Saxzon ohh c'mon bruhh Vince has been running wwe or wwf since multiple decades So it is obvious that he isn't only warming up his boss's couch and giving order He involved himself in the storylines His creations Just imagine what would wwe look like without hogan bret shawn hhh stone cold rock lesnar cena orten Batista undertaker just to name a few These are what Vince gave us. Even though i despise current wwe and royal rumble made me feel soooo disappointed even though i had so much less expectations. But i will never pretend like vince has no contribution in this industry. What vince is doing today wcw used to do it back in the days. Wcw had undertaker, they gave him mean mark calaway Wcw had stone cold, it was stunning steve austin Wcw had hhh They had completely different characters in wcw and wwf and completely different careers as well Later on the likes of big show jericho eddie Guerrero chris Benoit left wcw and they had better career in wwf Vince used to be great back in the days Then there are pure wwe characters like rock orten cena lesnar batista There are not just 10 bruhh but numerous great characters which were either created under vince McMahon or groomed well under his company
@@MrSircharles05 Stephanie McMahon was the only reason why hunter Hearst Helmsley was/is even relevant Steve Austin & Dwayne Johnson were better wrestlers than him back then
Punk isn't the draw he thinks he is ..AEW are tanking viewers at the moment theybare barely getting 800 thousand viewers for dynamite ..that is the shits ..hogan use to do a 12.7 rating for Saturday nights main event raw and aew barely do a 1.3..Austin would do a 5.5 while nitro did a 4.5 thats a 10.0 rating for both shows ..punk isn't a draw ..nobody is a draw today because the whole business has been neutered since the benoit incident...they need to let the wrestlers get back on what hogan called his python powder ...WWF was like watching 2 Titans do battle the company was even called Titan Sports and they had a show each week called Tuesday Night Titans ..imagine punk at 5ft 9 and a 160 lbs soaking wet stood next to a 6ft 6 300lb Hulkster brother..or a 6ft 2 280 lb Ultimate Warrior..he would look like a child ..nobody is going to pay to see a meth head looking wrestler when they can go in their home town and see them for free in the street..we paid to see the spectacle and attractions of wrestlers who looked like superheroes come to life.. larger than life characters u couldn't see anywhere else
The crazy thing about CM Punk and Triple H is they are actually a lot alike, more so than either one of them wants to admit. They see themselves in each other, and they don’t always like what they see.
Punk has been given almost complete control over his programs since his return in AEW, and so far they have been some of the best work in years. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must have been to know exactly what he was capable of and be constantly shackled and roadblocked in his prime. It’s honestly tragic.
He was burned out after WWE handed him termination papers on his wedding day, that would have been a painful expense for him and made him so bitter towards WWE after everything he did for the company s image.
He was relieved. He had thoughts on leaving and they sped the process up. He was able to recuperate and save his own life going to a good clinic to heal himself while the crap doctors WWe had could not do anything. And CM Punk could afford to quit, or be fired.
i stopped watching in 2001 but then i got the network in 2016 and ive been watching every single raw . timeline wise im currently on summer 2015. im a big cm punk fan. product went to shit in 2010 but in 2011 cm punk reinvigorated my love for wrestling . they gave him the strap but never put him in that main event spotlight.
I can’t believe that they didn’t think he was a draw, People buy more tickets based on a rumour of cm punk showing up then current guys sell tickets by being there currently. Blows my mind and I hope all these stories about wwe treating their guys like shit aren’t true.
To be fair you'd think they would know exactly who draws. They would have all of the stats and numbers. So if they felt he wasnt a huge draw there could have been something to that. We all know that Vince will always do business with people he knows will sell and doesnt hold grudges if it means making money. That makes me thing that maybe punk didnt draw as much as he thought he did.
I mean he should have been put into that main event of wm 2013 cause god that match and build up with cena winning the rumble in13 was so damn predictable about the time I just stopped watching.
Things have gotten significantly better with Vince gone and HHH at the helm. It's definitely not perfect, but it seems like Hunter actually has listened to critisism from the fans over the years.
Punk NEVER should have lost the title to Rock. Cena didn’t need to get that win back from Rock, it should have stayed once in a lifetime. Mania 29 always should have been Punk Vs Cena.
Cena should beat The Rock and get revenge on The Rock. They are the ones who will pass on the torch if Cena doesn't win. How can Cena be the proud Face of WWE? When he lost to The Rock, since The Rock was the Face of WWE before Cena, and The Rock was also a part-timer, defeating Cena, who at that time was a full-time wrestler, wrestled almost every week. Anyway, Cena has to beat The Rock back.
Punk should have main evented wrestlemania 2011 vs cena instead of miz and wrestlemania 2014 vs Bryan and orton instead of batista. This way Vince would have his dream matches of cena vs rock. Punk was already top guy in 2010-11 with nexus he should have main wvented in 2011.
if there's ever a wrestler from the WWE that can relate with Punk and had a similar experience, it's got to be Kairi Sane, think about it, she wasn't used right in the main roster, had a short NXT Women's title reign, and at the end of her run in WWE, kept getting hurt by Nia Jax (who is her Ryback) and ended up possibly dealing with a loss of passion at the end and wanted out, but differences in Kairi compared to Punk is she ended things on friendlier terms by moving back to Japan and having WWE's blessings and became a ambassador for them (but her contract expires soon and she is 100% on her way back to Stardom and i could see her getting a deal to allow her to return to wrestling in the US for another promotion like AEW). I think if Kairi ever worked in AEW, I'm sure she and Punk would be talking about how WWE never appreciated their talents.
@@son_1118. pretty much one of the reasons, she also had injuries from years of wear and tear in the ring, homesickness and covid made her want to be home with family.
@@son_1118 she wasn't sick from Covid19 unless she got it within the past 2 years and kept it quiet about it, especially when WWE had a policy to not mention it.
I wonder if Punk asked Bryan to recommend to Tony that Punk be fired. I mean it was quite clear that he was done with the place like he was with WWE back in 2014.
Xenofave I mean he should have been put into that main event of wm 2013 cause god that match and build up with cena winning the rumble in13 was so damn predictable about the time I just stopped watching.
He was in at a bad time, if he started with wwe a few years ago he'd be a top guy now like cena was. There were too many talents who held him back in his era such as hhh. I won't lie when punk debuted back in 06 I didn't see the big deal about him, physically average not a great look but the more he was exposed to the crowds you saw his gift was his in ring work, mic work and psychology, his brain. He's cut some.of the greatest promos in wrestling ever. Heyman knew he was destined for greatness, when no one else saw it just like with steve austin. Wwe is utter garbage now, watch though AEW will conquer wwe with him on top it will be a Steve Austin story in reverse.
To be honest around these years when punk was on the verge of leaving WWE wasn’t how it used to be. 2013-2015 was very questionable. It felt boring and bland.
Wouldn't suprise me if Triple H knew Punk was correct in everything he said about the booking, hence why he never said anything back to Punk. Look at the difference in the product between Vince's WWE and Triple H's WWE lately for example.
WWE has yet to surpass 2011- 14 years. Ive told myself unless the company is sold, the product is only going to get worse. In my opinion the last great Mania was 28 which was in 2012. 10 years ago bruh! Im not going to sit here and say AEW is this excellent company but it sure is nice to have something different with a more wrestling feel to it.
I have that Wrestlemania on DVD. Had, quite possibly, the greatest match in Wrestlemania history with the special referee Hell in a Cell match between Taker and Triple H with Shawn Michaels and another pretty damn good match between The Rock and John Cena
Totally agree with this. From the UK here, I used to stay up and watch every Wrestlemania. Don’t do it any more. Was it true Wrestlemania was set over 2 nights last year? Embarrassing if so
@@United-qx2sj they split it into two "brands". raw and smackdown. that made it too cringy for a lot of people and caused a huge decline. forced competitiveness because no other competing wrestling companies existed anymore. AEW can only be a good thing for WWE but it will take years
See this is what makes CM punk stand out and is respectable whether you like him or hate him you can sit here and say he's just a whiner a crier like others before him like Bret Hart well that being said this gives me a better understanding of what people like Bret Hart were saying and what they meant because punk explained in full detail all his grievances and all the problems instead of just getting on the camera and saying I got screwed
If no one can relate to what he’s saying, that’s very sad to see. We’ve all had jobs where upper management at one point or another has taken advantage of hard work and passion and used it up to the point where we felt like there’s nothing left. That’s all Punk is speaking about, before you go on to judge the guy about who he is and how big his ego is, perhaps you should listen to the full “The art of wrestling Ep 226” Punk isn’t trying to bitch and moan but just express his frustrations about a company that at the end of the day didn’t give a shit about him. To the ones who are calling him a cry baby and chump, just think about how you would feel if put into his shoes. Life’s not easy when your jobs literally killing you and your dream.
I feel like this woke up triple h to realize shit needs to change in wwe. Notice after this whole thing wwe while triple h was on there was pushing newer stars. Im glad punk said this cause i truly think this is why nxt is so good today and why rollins and many others are main roster success.
They say there's two sides to every story. I would like to hear the other side of this. It's easy to tell a "big man" story where "I walked in there, told my boss what's WHAT, and as I left he was crying blah blah". Maybe Punk was hard to work with, thought he was a pre-madona and only deserved to wrestle the very best. Like how he said he didn't need to wrestle HHH, that HHH needed to wrestle him. Maybe Punk was really a punk. Idk, I'd just like to hear the other side of the story.
WWE collectively has never responded to this particular part of the story. So for all intents and purposes I would have to believe Punk until they say otherwise.
I came back to visit this after hearing about the Mustafa Ali situation and the reports Finn Balor’s main event run is over. WWE takes people who love professional wrestling and destroys their passion. They ran off every wrestler who loved the art of wrestling and then let part timers like Brock and Ronda collect all the big money and main events.
No true, Ronda and Brock are both larger than life superstars who put over WWE talent. Ronda boosted Becky's stock after the WrestleMania match. Brock put over Rollins, Reigns, and McIntyre clean. These are all top guys.
Phil is a very disillusioned man. He became the longest reigning champion of fake fighting and all of the sudden he thinks he is a legitimate bad ass and decides to fight in UFC. Got pummelled in 2 fights. That brought him back to reality real quick !!
Love to see you get in the octagon or the ring with punk .... he'd tie your sorry ass in so many knots and tap you out in less than 10 seconds. Pillock !!
@@Amiga1200Mark These people always have a lot to say on their keyboard, but in real life, they're as weak as they say the people they're criticising are.
Its amazing how relative CM Punk's frustration and comments about the WWE's corporate model and how it affects the wrestles is close in comparison to us who work normal jobs. I loved doing what I was doing and enjoyed working for my company and liked most of the guys I worked with. But when the "new" corporate culture took over and a yes man was hired as my supervisor, it became an absolute miserable place to work. They don't care about you as a person and try to take more and more money and benefits from you.
I haven't followed wrestling since the reign of terror. More than him giving it to Vince, I'm glad Punk let it rip on triple h. That guy and michaels deserve so much shit for all that they did over the years.
Not a CM Punk fan but he was right about Vince, HHH and WWE. He was only wrong about getting more over after leaving WWE. Really ruined his character by losing in MMA twice.
@@extraterrestrialhorse9722 I think what the person meant was that now he sort of outed himself as a weak fighter for real, so how can we suspend our disbelief when we watch him in pro wrestling? Nobody's denying the guts and determination it took for him to get in there and fight, but I think it's detrimental to his kayfabe character.
@@SomeoneElse- he's fighting world class fighters. Any man in MMA, Bellator, UFC etc, could whip any of our asses, so he might not have beaten them, but it doesn't mean he's a weak fighter or not tough.
Listening to this so many years later it’s even clearer that: EVERY WORD Punk said was right! Triple H was seriously being a piece of shit towards him… NOC 2011 with triple going over made ZERO F‘n sense…. And main events like Batista vs Randy didn’t make any sense either… Punk had all the right in the world to be frustrated… I have no clue how Punk‘s haters can not see or accept that…
HHH is the real manipulator. He married Stephanie is the worst thing happen to wwe ever. Still to this day wwe promotes triple h like he is a real big deal as he convinced vince it is good for business as he is the ceo. But all he is a coward just like his character who has massive ego. He is at best a b+ player.
Fax triple h isn't a draw in my opinion dude is one of the most overrated superstars ever 1997-2007 should have been it for him and have him occasionally peep in like Michaels but not straight up have him win titles and main event still after that like God damn idk what worse triple H's stale ass gimmick or Cena's stale ass 5 moves of doom
It's funny how the two big matches leading up to the main event at that years WrestleMania we're gonna be the same as the previous but just switched opponents. With Punk, HHH, Brock, and Taker.
vince and triple h never liked him coz of that shoot pipebomb promo and always try to overshadowed him at his wwe title reign with cena rock and triple didn't even put him over at night of champions 2011
It's actually even before the pipebomb. Punk has gained a reputation by Vince loyalist as a whiner and complainer but what he actually was doing was trying to push his own creative input which would make more sense storyline and entertainment wise, people say he has beef with Cena and Rock but years after this he actually has reconciled with the two and in fact has a good a relationship with Cena and even compliment him on his last house show, both of them are quite alike in that sense as Cena has stated he always edit scripts and push for his creative input, the difference is Cena is Vince's guy so to them he is taking the initiative to grab the brass ring whereas Punk was not so is considered nuisance. Top WWE brass dislike that guys they have no intention to go over push for their own agenda and killling the pipebomb moment was a way to let Punk know how they really see him
It’s still crazy how the greatest pro wrestler on the planet today arguably was not planned to be in the main event of WM in his year. I believe people take certain things that CM Punk says out of context leading them to believe he is a “crybaby”. He really just seems jaded about the ass backwards decision making at the top level of WWE. We have seen it numerous times, too many to count at this point, piss poor decision making with no common sense. Whoever is making those decisions may understand some semblance of a “business model” (they want to draw money for the main event of WM by plugging in household names) but they do not understand wrestling. They do not understand that wrestling needs to evolve, the fan base needs to be able to perceive guys like Daniel Bryan (or anyone who has proved themselves to be able to perform at that level) as “main event guys”. And I’m not just talking about the main event of WM, you need more main event guys to carry the company throughout the year and challenge for the title and put asses in seats. Whoever is making these types of decisions simply doesn’t understand that.
I find it so ironic that Chris Jericho badmouthed punk saying that him being in the Main Event of Wrestlemania doesn’t matter, to then him saying that he was annoyed at Vince for not putting him and KO as the main event of Mania for the Universal Title; so much so that it led to Chris leaving WWE. I know they’re friends and both have ego’s based on how good they are, but it’s funny that Jericho left for the same reason Punk did.
Wrestling companies have toxic environments. You might be promised something but no matter what you do, someone else comes and steal spotlight at the last minute which happened to Jericho and Owens match after promising to be main event got shot down due to Goldberg return.
4:06 when punk said "Do you understand that" the dude he was talking to sounded scared or like nervous lmao, punks so condescending it made him scared to speak for a bit lmaooo
If it wasn't for Daniel Bryan the main event of Wrestlemania 30 would be one of the most disgusting, unwatched and forgotten ever, and they realized it before it was too late so they put and let Bryan win so made history, and they were right...unfortunately no realized that Cm Punk vs Daniel Bryan would be one of the most remebering and cheered of all times
In 2024, CM Punk still told the truth, the Rock is gonna lose to Roman and go back to acting 2011 was CM Punk's year 2014 was Daniel Bryan's year and WWE listened to the fans 2023-2024 was Cody's year
Danielson was on the committee that fired Punk from AEW no? Yet here Punk is defending his right to a Mania main event. This guy is gold. I was never a fan… but I have to be one now. He is a great talker and is just real. I hear myself in his monologues & dialogues. I am sure so many other people do too! So pumped I will get to see this last run of his unfold. Great times for a lapsed wrestling fan.
@@Ahmed-og2jm The Elite and Jack Perry also acted unprofessional. The only difference between them and Punk is that Punk is a real draw and wanted to make the company money which is a big no no in AEW.
Listening to this after all the drama he's caused, this just makes Punk look unbelievably stupid. He talks about getting the title & the main event, but thinks he should leave if he's not given it? What he said, he sounds like he wanted the Hogan treatment. Then he contradicts himself when he talks about others not getting the main event or title. He's just a phoney
Listening to this (and many other stories and things don't get me wrong) is why I have zero remorse for NXT being taken from Triple H and he pretty much getting erased. He pissed off and screwed over so many people in his career.
At the end of the day it’s Vince McMahon’s company, so he oversaw the screwing over of people by Triple H and allowed it and has now turned his back on him, so between Vince McMahon and Triple H; who is the bad guy?
Punk and RVD were the only ones who didnt fall for vince's jedi mind tricks.
You need either all the weed or none of the weed for that kind of clarity
Vince is no Jedi.
*sith mind tricks
That story of RVD totally no-selling the overseas trip was bonkers.
Yep both are smart men to the business there not stupid. They know the story's of bs others like Vince have done and know what there value and worth are to prowrestling period.. and the love what they do also there not 100%all about money ok maybe like 80%so or about that or weed in robs case but still they aren't broke guys they love prowrestling
"I will go somewhere else and I will get more fucking over. Because I know I can."
And now he is.
Thank God for AEW!
Punk is right he made good points
He indeed went to ufc and humiliate himself, the guy has zero athletic ability, imagine being so bad that your boss had to fire your opponent for not ending you quickly, lmao, cm punk is a joke.
@@jugg9140 Thats the dumbest assesment of what happened i have ever heard. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about
And he sucks there
@@jugg9140 And he'd still whoop you in a fight, so where are you on the food chain? Keep typing your little comments though, basement dweller. 😄
This still rings true to this day. Punk spoke 100% truth. If it wasn't for him, Bryan would've never been in the title picture, in the main event at WrestleMania If it wasn't for Punk.
He was a huge part of what happened. Even though Batista was rejected by the fans at the Rumble, Vince is infamously stubborn. As long as he had his plans, he was going to stick to them. It was going to be Batista-Orton as the main event, and Punk-Triple H as the No.2 match, with Daniel Bryan-Sheamus as No.6 or whatever. Punk leaving changed everything. With the fans already pissed, they would have torn the main event apart without Daniel Bryan there. Punk facilitated Bryan’s moment in a major way.
Let me tell you this, Cm Punk is too sensitive simple as that, wwe is "tough guy" persona business from hulk hogan to stone cold to the rock, it's about big bulky dudes coming in and wrestling and showing their strength and entertaining, kinda like strongman competition, so for someone like cm punk who gave out a loser vibe with piercings and tattoos and whinning and complaining and dont look tough, of course it will not go well with wwe, vince like muscle more than brains which is what the company was made for, big strong guys showing their strength, not some skinny fat dude complaining, poor cm punk ahould have just shut up and obey, instead he went the other way, and humiliate himself on ufc, wwe is the only place where cm punk can look tough, after his ufc debut i lose all respect for him.
@UCCO70INBRUuq8Z1Q5xAGwxg stfu u wwe stan. This ain't da 1980s anymore. U don't know what makes a man, what makes a man tough in this day and age.
@@jugg9140 Shawn, Bret and Austin and even early 97-98 Rock weren't that much bigger than Punk.
@@apostolostvable dude my point is cm punk dont get the culture of wwe and the type of show it is, it has always been about muscle rather than brains, its about being a badass not about knowing what to say, but the world has changed we have arrived in the internet era where everyone has become a snowflake and where nerds and geeks losers who are smart are considered badass got it?
Aside from his own personal frustrations, Punk was trying to warn them about the icebergs they were heading towards. This has aged like fine wine, WWE has aged like milk.
Said perfectly
So true it s all still true today
Wwe will live on long after cm punk is gone, wwe is bigger than cm punk, he was never on the level of the rock, he was luckly to have some sensitive generation as fans, he was bitch, whinning and complaining all the time in a tough guy business, he went to ufc and humiliate himself again, he suck so bad that his opponent got fired for not ending the fight quickly lmao now i have never heard anything like this in the ufc before hahaha
@@jugg9140 you sound like a kid
@@round105 you feel like a kid and therefore heard it like a kid
Love or hate him but you can't help but to respect Punk for having the balls to stand up for himself in a company known to scare people into thinking they can lose their job or spot at the drop of a hat. CM Punk lit the fuse to a revolution in the pro wrestling industry and I'll always love him for it.
Now when I look at wwe it's like seeing an old friend that you don't even recognize anymore. Sure wwe was what made me a pro wrestling fan in the first place but they also took that love I had for them and chucked it out the window. Now even when they do have their occasional interesting angles, I can't trust them to do the right thing. And more often than not I'm right about not trusting them to do the right thing.
Glad Punk is back somewhere that clearly does appreciate him because the very first thing we all wanted to see was a promo between Punk and MJF and they gave us that with a proper build. Anyone that hates what Punk is doing now is obviously still suffering from the brainwash effects wwe drilled into many fans. The "flavor of the month" booking I call it. Every story always seems to HAVE to blow off at the PPV and then we're supposed to pretend everything got reset and that the past doesn't matter.
That's why I find it entertaining when wrestlers bring up their past in wwe because we have NOT forgotten.
Ok mark
@@TheNepalesevideo I still find it funny how wrestling fans somehow found a bigoted word to refer to other wrestling fans lol guess that makes you a smark 🙄
Stop focusing on the backstage drama and enjoy the show and you’ll be okay.
@@thebadguychinli4011 Tell that to the people who were shocked by the Montreal Screwjob.
not really i don't respect muck... he should have not even qualified to be a fucking wrestler
And now he’s back in the WWE after nearly 10 years
Because triple h is now in control. Not Vince
@@mendozas.action.figures.That Comment litteraly makes it sound, like the beef was more between Punk and Vince which it absolutely wasn't at the time. Punk and Vince had their beef too, but he mainly disliked Hunter not Vince. You even hear it here how speaks about Hunter! They hated each other.
@@watersandblue6001but the problem was mostly vince i think Triple H was if anything more of a suck up. But the complete creative control was Vince and look what vince did to dean ambrose or jon moxley. Triple H learned the fundamentals of the business from vince but Triple H knows what sells and how to book. He is truly bringing it back. If vince was still in charge of creative he wouldnt be back.
@@mendozas.action.figures.Triple H deffo gonna bury him for old time sake 😂
@@AU-rp4fp😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What saddens me the most is that whenever Punk and Hunter wrestled their chemistry was fantastic. Their interactions during the Summer of Punk were always top draw. Obviously there’s a lot of resentment here, and from what we’ve witnessed from WWE it’s more than likely that Punk was the first in a long line of performers who fought back after being let down time and time again by poor booking, backstage politics and the embarrassing paranoia that Vince feeds into his locker rooms. If Hunters tenure for NXT says anything he knew all along how wrestling should be booked, and it’s a real shame that he didn’t have that drive when it came to Punk. I hope that if ever they interact again down the road it’s not to the detriment of either man, the way “wrestling” should be.
Learn how to spell
What was the paranoia that Vince put into the locker rooms?
@@Kev.genZZZ Nobody gives a shit about spelin
@@Kev.genZZZ Learn how to use periods!
The rock cena main event started all this .
I wonder how many times I’m gonna listen to this clip on different channels
5:44 That problem has come back to bite WWE hard now. Because they haven’t built other stars, the ratings for the brand has suffered. If you don’t build stars today, you won’t have them when you need them tomorrow.
Just think about how many guys were over with the crowd in the 2010s
Nexus, Alex Riley, Ryback, Damien Sandow, Cesaro and Bray Wyatt.
All of them could have been Main Eventers. The fucked buried Nexus at Summerslam 2010. Alex Riley had the looks like John Cena and mabye thats why Cena never liked him i don't know. Ryback was buried the moment he lost to Mark Henry at WM 29. Cesaro was over asf with the Crowd but then they screwed him up with Heyman.
@@watersandblue6001 Cesaro not being successful with Heyman is a real mystery to me to this day.
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother the problem was that he was over asf and then the moment he became a heyman guy he automatically went from the babyface to a tweener/heel because Heyman was hated because Lesnar beat The Streak. They really screwed up by doing Cesaro vs Brock in 2014/15 that would have been an amazing Match for Cesaro's Legacy.
For me, it's not just a problem with them building stars from the ground up, it's also the fact that they've taken indie darlings that have proven in other promotions that they have what it takes to be a big star in any company and they either waste their talent for the extent of their contract or they release them before they can give them a proper chance to show them how important they can be for the company
The only star WWE have built since Punk left is Roman Reigns, and even that was after years of him being pushed as a face who the crowd didn't want.
“I don’t need to work with you, you need to work with me” greatest exit line ever.
Sounds like a petulant child
@@ChanT3 Sounds like the truth
@@TheFinishedArticle Not really, that’s a rude thing to say to your coworker. I seriously hope Punk kisses Triple H’s ass because that’s a very unprofessional remark and downright disrespectful. Punk needs WWE, WWE doesn’t need him.
In the same context as "Triple H was the guy who worked with people who drew the money"
He got fired lol
I was a huge punk fan a decade ago when I watched wwe... He always killed on the mic and he worked his ass off in the ring... it always boggled my mind why he was never the top guy and now we know.
You can sorta predict, and it was confirmed by him or his peers later on. Punk and to an extent, his wife Aj is kinda like those emo couple heading to a separate table from the jock football kids like HHH with the homecoming queen in Stephanie with the other cheerleaders like Bella twins. WWE or vince specifically believe getting over means someone used his cheesy original idea, put a spin or edit it to make it their own and then getting a wild cheer e.g New Day and Becky Lynch, unlike Punk a ready made product who play by their own rules.
Because wwe is a tough guy business not a place for emotional sensitive whinning bitches, Punk is too sensitive for wwe, he will not last 1 min in the attitude era, and he dare to complain when wwe has gone really soft? Cm punk is a joke
He was wwe champion for 434 days what the fuck are you talking about
@@jugg9140 you seriously have a problem, spamming on every single comment lol
@@JohnChina321 you seriously have a problem looking at all my comments lol
Wow even after all the shit they put Punk through, he still showed respect on his way out
What a legend
Dave is Batista if anybody didn't know
They did put punk over 3 years ago right ? At 2011 they let punk win the champ , the pimp thing ? What else he expected?
@@mathefar3845 he was champ but he wasnt treated like a champ. he rarely ever main evented ppvs and was seen as less than important than guys such as cena and rock. (I’m not saying hes more important than either because I know how much of a draw they are but if we are putting this into perspective, he was seen as a shitty champ) for example, his match at over the limit with daniel bryan for the wwe championship was not the main event, but you wanna know what the main event was? john cena vs john laurinatis. thats how low wwe viewed him
@@Igo2hard ya man vince and triple h never liked him coz of that shoot pipebomb promo and always try to overshadowed him at his wwe title reign with cena rock and triple didn't even put him over at night of champions 2011
Ma The Far HHH buried CM Punk during Night of Champions instead of putting the rocket on his back
NO FK!! DAM YOU
HHH buried a lot of wrestlers doing his reign of terror.. CM punk Booker T Sting and the list goes on and on
Even though I respect Booker T a ton, it always hurt more when Sting and CM Punk got fucked over because of HHH, mostly because CM Punk started off in WWECW within a year of me starting watching wrestling, so I felt like I grew up with him, and the fact that I used to love mid 2000's TNA and Sting was a massive part of that love for me
Owen Hart should also be on that list too
That’s what happens when you’re clapping the boss’s daughter cheeks!
It should've been Sting V Undertaker
@isthatyoubetha Insinuate all you want, I wrote down my reasons for hating HHH more for fucking over Sting and Punk than Booker on that very comment and there's nothing else to it
His tone here is exactly the same as the AEW Media Scrum. He gets frustrated during the combo of his injuries and creative not matching his wants.
Here after his return to WWE
This aged well
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Who’s here after CM Punk just returned?
I feel bad for punk
“Triple H was the guy who worked with the guy that drew money.”
Jim Cornette
Nothing wrong with that. Everyone still knows who Triple H is
@@outis439-ADoesn't mean they like him...
Hunter is actually a nice guy though. Punk thought he was bigger than cena and rock
@@AD-ur1fk He was for a time until Vince cut his legs out from under him
You seriously quoting that unhinged whackjob Cornette?
When Punk had that 434 day title run I remember the for the whole reign Cena would always go on last and main event even though Punk was the longest reigning and most popular champ for years.
WWE gave CM Punk the ball but didn't want him getting more over than their precious WWE lifer Cena. Sounds very toxic.
Tbh Cena or Lesnar had big matches that had to be in the Main Event of the PPV! For example Cena vs Rock WM 28, Cena vs Lesnar ER 2012, HHH vs Brock SS 2012!
@@watersandblue6001 that's because Vince over hyped them and force them into the main event when he should have gave it to other wrestlers
@@watersandblue6001 Yes, there were certain situations where Cena's match was absolutely the main event of a ppv. Cena vs Rock or vs Lesnar absolutely deserved to main event. However, you can't tell me Cena vs john laurinaitis deserved to main event more then Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE title
@@watersandblue6001 I still think they could've done rock punk at wm 28 and it would've still been a big event. It was the rocks first wm in 8 years. And rock punk would've been a little different from the formula. Don't get me wrong cena rock was ok. I'm just saying it would've been cool as well.
@@hellohell77 Punk vs Rock at WM 28? No they did everything right with Once in a Lifetime but wm 29 should have been the 3 way punk/rock/cena nobody wanted to see that rematch were cena just won and that silly handshake at the end.
This speaks to everyone who is struggling whether physically or mentally or both in their workplace, that you deserve time off for all of that hard work you do for your job and that taking time off for your mental health isn't a bad thing at all. When you overwork your employees you end up with a bad product and CM Punk showing up in AEW proved that. WWE killed his passion because he was putting in all of his time and effort and not getting anything in return. It's not selfish at all.
He was getting millions of dollars in return for all of his time and effort, wasn’t he? Which is all that WWE technically owed him, not to mention is a whole lot more than most people get from their employers in exchange for dealing with BS… I have to pee in a cup fairly often for my job, if I have a problem with it I’m terminated, period. But what innocent reason could I, or anyone else have for having a problem with that? People tend to side against the “big evil corporation” automatically, especially when it involves a beloved icon like Punk, but I honestly didn’t hear anything from him that warranted sympathy. WWE is a unique type of company when it comes to sports entertainment as they have total control over deciding who to put over and how to best do that. Not like other professional sports where athletes must find success and popularity more organically. So, in exchange for all of his time and effort, the WWE also made him everything he is today. Plenty of talented guys work just as hard and for whatever reason don’t get that push. He got it all and has still never stopped complaining about whatever negativity he had to deal with in exchange.
@@jamesong.a.7695 don't compare trauma. A toxic work environment is a toxic work environment.
It's about respect and recognition...
@@jamesong.a.7695 THANK YOU! CM Punk is a cancer that single-handedly damaged the culture of wrestling way more than Benoit ever did.
@@leslieoliverii9035 nobody is comparing trauma. CM Punk’s only gripe is that he didn’t get what HE wanted from the company, not that he didn’t get what he was DESERVED. His parents must’ve been too drunk to teach him he can get further in life using manners. You can’t walk in ANY workplace with an entitled attitude to the point you’re telling the boss how to do his job and expect to get far.
This makes sense now i remember leaving for overseas visit, with cm punk super popular(2012) Came back middle of 2013 and wanted to see where punk was wow what a disappointment. He was midcard again not doing much other then looking like a someone there to lose big name wrestlers. Also he looked sick and that side burn beard thing made him look even more weirdly low tier like before he was popular. Its like they ruined his momentum and stopped his popularity relegating him to just being there to fill a slot.
I think the sideburn thing was his wolverine look. But yeah, 2013 was just bad. He was sick by the end of that year.
Punk told them years ago and it’s more evident than ever now. Summerslam was a shit show
Rollins vs Edge was the only good match tbh
Cena vs Reigns?
The Rumble was a walking bag of wank as well. Rousey and Brock winning? What is this, a UFC glory wank?
You couldn’t have picked a more out of place recent show to refer to as shit Ngl
5:13 best imitation ever 🤣🤣
It’s legitimately spot on.
The algorithm brought this to you when he came back didn't it?
And he's gone again lol
CM Punk Always Spoke How He Feels Never Hold Back
This has happened quite multiple times in wwe
Vince is a great thinker he revolutionalised pro wrestling business and created one of the best characters in short larger than life characters
But he always had that guy who was a great worker and was pushed decently and could have main evented wrestlemania but didn't do that be it health issues or booking issues or any other
And there were and are those guys who doesn't matter what storyline they are in but end up main eventing mania be it hogan back in the day the austin and rock then golden boy cena frequently hunter and now reigns is just carrying on the tradition by already main eventing mania for like 5 times🤣🤣 that's actually pathetic though but they now have two days of mania so they can bragg about two main events
But wwe always trusts on that one guy and for that guy other guy has to sacrifice
We don't even need to go that far
Dean Ambrose was hottest thing in pro wrestling back in 2015 and 16 he gave wwe the most match in 2015 and was giving some best matches against rollins and hhh
And people wanted reigns vs ambrose at mania but what we got reigns vs hhh
That is when i finally started to know that wwe had that bias-ness
I have no memory of the HHH and Reigns match. Must have been a stinker but I agree, Ambrose deserved the mania main event. I get Vince doesn't want to push everyone becuase then they could all leave to another company or hollywood but to depend on one guy seems like bad business. It took Punk leaving for them to realize Daniel Bryan was a good idea to main event 30. Nobody wants to see Batista and Orton wrestle for 30 mins! We've seen that a million times Vince!
Vince didn't create great characters. Go ahead & list 10 great characters from 1980 to today. I dare you.
@Zenix Saxzon ohh c'mon bruhh
Vince has been running wwe or wwf since multiple decades
So it is obvious that he isn't only warming up his boss's couch and giving order
He involved himself in the storylines
His creations
Just imagine what would wwe look like without hogan bret shawn hhh stone cold rock lesnar cena orten Batista undertaker just to name a few
These are what Vince gave us.
Even though i despise current wwe and royal rumble made me feel soooo disappointed even though i had so much less expectations.
But i will never pretend like vince has no contribution in this industry.
What vince is doing today wcw used to do it back in the days.
Wcw had undertaker, they gave him mean mark calaway
Wcw had stone cold, it was stunning steve austin
Wcw had hhh
They had completely different characters in wcw and wwf and completely different careers as well
Later on the likes of big show jericho eddie Guerrero chris Benoit left wcw and they had better career in wwf
Vince used to be great back in the days
Then there are pure wwe characters like rock orten cena lesnar batista
There are not just 10 bruhh but numerous great characters which were either created under vince McMahon or groomed well under his company
cringe
I tottaly agree with u
Hunter hated punk because punk was something he could never be honest hardworking fair and above all a talented wrestler sorry hunter the truth hurts
Punk didn't have to marry the boss's daughter to get over.
@@MrSircharles05
Stephanie McMahon was the only reason why hunter Hearst Helmsley was/is even relevant
Steve Austin & Dwayne Johnson were better wrestlers than him back then
He's killing it right now in AEW!!
Best in the world
Nope. Sucks.
He botched the same move twice lol. CM punk is so overrated. Even in WWE
@@stephenaylward186 "I am the best wReStLeR in the world" - CM Botch
@@lovejotted 😂😂😂😂😂
Vince's dumbest move of his career was letting CM Punk go.
@isthatyoubetha there was difference hogan was way past his prime this wasn'r 80s wwe this was the 90s wcw died because of hogan
@isthatyoubetha you're adopted and your birth parents hate you lol
Cm Punk isn’t all that. Roman is literally the needle mover. AJ is more over than Punk.
Punk isn't the draw he thinks he is ..AEW are tanking viewers at the moment theybare barely getting 800 thousand viewers for dynamite ..that is the shits ..hogan use to do a 12.7 rating for Saturday nights main event raw and aew barely do a 1.3..Austin would do a 5.5 while nitro did a 4.5 thats a 10.0 rating for both shows ..punk isn't a draw ..nobody is a draw today because the whole business has been neutered since the benoit incident...they need to let the wrestlers get back on what hogan called his python powder ...WWF was like watching 2 Titans do battle the company was even called Titan Sports and they had a show each week called Tuesday Night Titans ..imagine punk at 5ft 9 and a 160 lbs soaking wet stood next to a 6ft 6 300lb Hulkster brother..or a 6ft 2 280 lb Ultimate Warrior..he would look like a child ..nobody is going to pay to see a meth head looking wrestler when they can go in their home town and see them for free in the street..we paid to see the spectacle and attractions of wrestlers who looked like superheroes come to life.. larger than life characters u couldn't see anywhere else
Riiight lol you don't even believe that hahaha
The crazy thing about CM Punk and Triple H is they are actually a lot alike, more so than either one of them wants to admit. They see themselves in each other, and they don’t always like what they see.
Punk has been given almost complete control over his programs since his return in AEW, and so far they have been some of the best work in years. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must have been to know exactly what he was capable of and be constantly shackled and roadblocked in his prime. It’s honestly tragic.
He was burned out after WWE handed him termination papers on his wedding day, that would have been a painful expense for him and made him so bitter towards WWE after everything he did for the company s image.
He was relieved. He had thoughts on leaving and they sped the process up. He was able to recuperate and save his own life going to a good clinic to heal himself while the crap doctors WWe had could not do anything. And CM Punk could afford to quit, or be fired.
lol
What happened again? Lol cm hype punk? Yeah he’s a cry baby for nothing
lol lol lol lol
i stopped watching in 2001 but then i got the network in 2016 and ive been watching every single raw . timeline wise im currently on summer 2015. im a big cm punk fan. product went to shit in 2010 but in 2011 cm punk reinvigorated my love for wrestling . they gave him the strap but never put him in that main event spotlight.
2011-14 was good then it went to shit then in 2016 thru early 17 was good but that’s it
How did you know 2010 was shit
@@migueladrianvalevelazquez8703 um, because he watched it? Duh.
Hey how far does the wwe network span from?
I can’t believe that they didn’t think he was a draw, People buy more tickets based on a rumour of cm punk showing up then current guys sell tickets by being there currently. Blows my mind and I hope all these stories about wwe treating their guys like shit aren’t true.
hes not drawing in AEW
@@jamesjones-ez9ug AEW has had more nights with 1M+ viewers after Punk showed than they every had.
To be fair you'd think they would know exactly who draws. They would have all of the stats and numbers. So if they felt he wasnt a huge draw there could have been something to that. We all know that Vince will always do business with people he knows will sell and doesnt hold grudges if it means making money. That makes me thing that maybe punk didnt draw as much as he thought he did.
@@alexf9381 of course because CM Punk is not a draw lol what part you fans don't get 🤦🏾♂️🤣💯🗣️
I mean he should have been put into that main event of wm 2013 cause god that match and build up with cena winning the rumble in13 was so damn predictable about the time I just stopped watching.
Dwayne had no business winning the title
@@ianstephenson9721 Cena did the favor for Rock, Dwayne had to do the favor. Pretty good excuse. Just this one tho.
Rock vs cena 2 : crowd was chanting Daniel Bryan 😂
@@abhi-xo4sf so
@@VegetabIeMan3 years later lol but rock could have just put him over at summer slam 😂 John needed it at wrestlemania.
I thank the gods for blessing us with CM Punk. Dude's entire life is inspirational
Looks like waters under the bridge he's back the day after survivor series. Almost ten years ago that almost left.
Things have gotten significantly better with Vince gone and HHH at the helm.
It's definitely not perfect, but it seems like Hunter actually has listened to critisism from the fans over the years.
Punk NEVER should have lost the title to Rock. Cena didn’t need to get that win back from Rock, it should have stayed once in a lifetime. Mania 29 always should have been Punk Vs Cena.
Cena should beat The Rock and get revenge on The Rock. They are the ones who will pass on the torch if Cena doesn't win. How can Cena be the proud Face of WWE? When he lost to The Rock, since The Rock was the Face of WWE before Cena, and The Rock was also a part-timer, defeating Cena, who at that time was a full-time wrestler, wrestled almost every week. Anyway, Cena has to beat The Rock back.
@@metasitzaza But it didn't need the championship.
Punk should have main evented wrestlemania 2011 vs cena instead of miz and wrestlemania 2014 vs Bryan and orton instead of batista. This way Vince would have his dream matches of cena vs rock. Punk was already top guy in 2010-11 with nexus he should have main wvented in 2011.
if there's ever a wrestler from the WWE that can relate with Punk and had a similar experience, it's got to be Kairi Sane, think about it, she wasn't used right in the main roster, had a short NXT Women's title reign, and at the end of her run in WWE, kept getting hurt by Nia Jax (who is her Ryback) and ended up possibly dealing with a loss of passion at the end and wanted out, but differences in Kairi compared to Punk is she ended things on friendlier terms by moving back to Japan and having WWE's blessings and became a ambassador for them (but her contract expires soon and she is 100% on her way back to Stardom and i could see her getting a deal to allow her to return to wrestling in the US for another promotion like AEW). I think if Kairi ever worked in AEW, I'm sure she and Punk would be talking about how WWE never appreciated their talents.
Wasn’t it because she got married is the reason she left?
@@son_1118. pretty much one of the reasons, she also had injuries from years of wear and tear in the ring, homesickness and covid made her want to be home with family.
@@WillHendersonTX Damn. I do hope she’s feeling better nowadays and possibly come back to wrestling
@@son_1118 she wasn't sick from Covid19 unless she got it within the past 2 years and kept it quiet about it, especially when WWE had a policy to not mention it.
@@WillHendersonTX she’s been tweeting a lot of ⏳ recently so here’s to hoping that she’s coming back! (I want her to go back in Stardom)
Even though I’m not a Phil brooks fan, I do understand where he was coming from. He was money and they treated him like shit
Daniel Bryan Being the One that agreed to fire punk in AEW being the one to main event it is crazy
I wonder if Punk asked Bryan to recommend to Tony that Punk be fired. I mean it was quite clear that he was done with the place like he was with WWE back in 2014.
Punk had it coming bro.
Who's watching this after the CM punk All Out press conference?
Me, it Was pretty funny watching Him yelling and insulting about His Backstage Fight. 😂
3:36 is he talking about not putting him over at vengeance 2011?
Yes, Triple H winning that night made no sense in the long run
It was Night Of Champions 2011 and Vengeance 2011
Vengeance and Night Of Champions both should have been different, punk should have won both
Xenofave I mean he should have been put into that main event of wm 2013 cause god that match and build up with cena winning the rumble in13 was so damn predictable about the time I just stopped watching.
he was talking about night of champions not vegeance ( vegeance was a Triple h and CM punk vs awesome truth and they lost)
He was in at a bad time, if he started with wwe a few years ago he'd be a top guy now like cena was. There were too many talents who held him back in his era such as hhh. I won't lie when punk debuted back in 06 I didn't see the big deal about him, physically average not a great look but the more he was exposed to the crowds you saw his gift was his in ring work, mic work and psychology, his brain. He's cut some.of the greatest promos in wrestling ever. Heyman knew he was destined for greatness, when no one else saw it just like with steve austin. Wwe is utter garbage now, watch though AEW will conquer wwe with him on top it will be a Steve Austin story in reverse.
Him and MJF are creating something special at AEW. No surprise really. 2 top professionals!
I love going back to this, cm punk was always ahead
To be honest around these years when punk was on the verge of leaving WWE wasn’t how it used to be. 2013-2015 was very questionable. It felt boring and bland.
It shows that CM Punk loves the wrestling business
Wouldn't suprise me if Triple H knew Punk was correct in everything he said about the booking, hence why he never said anything back to Punk. Look at the difference in the product between Vince's WWE and Triple H's WWE lately for example.
Exactly
WWE has yet to surpass 2011- 14 years. Ive told myself unless the company is sold, the product is only going to get worse. In my opinion the last great Mania was 28 which was in 2012. 10 years ago bruh! Im not going to sit here and say AEW is this excellent company but it sure is nice to have something different with a more wrestling feel to it.
unfortunately wwe went downhill hard and fast around 2002/3 after invasion.
@@Hugh.G.Rectionx Yeah I know but I like to call 2011-14 decent bounce back years considering the era and they cant even surpass that point in time
I have that Wrestlemania on DVD. Had, quite possibly, the greatest match in Wrestlemania history with the special referee Hell in a Cell match between Taker and Triple H with Shawn Michaels and another pretty damn good match between The Rock and John Cena
Totally agree with this. From the UK here, I used to stay up and watch every Wrestlemania. Don’t do it any more.
Was it true Wrestlemania was set over 2 nights last year? Embarrassing if so
@@United-qx2sj they split it into two "brands". raw and smackdown. that made it too cringy for a lot of people and caused a huge decline. forced competitiveness because no other competing wrestling companies existed anymore. AEW can only be a good thing for WWE but it will take years
See this is what makes CM punk stand out and is respectable whether you like him or hate him you can sit here and say he's just a whiner a crier like others before him like Bret Hart well that being said this gives me a better understanding of what people like Bret Hart were saying and what they meant because punk explained in full detail all his grievances and all the problems instead of just getting on the camera and saying I got screwed
Punk spoke facts....
The hhh impression was dead on lmmfao
Everyone complain about the schedule...how john cena made that schedule for 10 years truly legend
who is here after punk's aew debut?
If no one can relate to what he’s saying, that’s very sad to see. We’ve all had jobs where upper management at one point or another has taken advantage of hard work and passion and used it up to the point where we felt like there’s nothing left. That’s all Punk is speaking about, before you go on to judge the guy about who he is and how big his ego is, perhaps you should listen to the full “The art of wrestling Ep 226” Punk isn’t trying to bitch and moan but just express his frustrations about a company that at the end of the day didn’t give a shit about him. To the ones who are calling him a cry baby and chump, just think about how you would feel if put into his shoes. Life’s not easy when your jobs literally killing you and your dream.
i get what you’re saying, but you can’t expect simple minded motherfuckers to interpret this. they’ll always come up with a counter argument.
Yup i had to leave a company i liked because they kept overlooking me for promotion
Who is here after he returned?
I don't think he's gonna last long. I'm so skeptical.
Here we go. Being negative
I feel like this woke up triple h to realize shit needs to change in wwe. Notice after this whole thing wwe while triple h was on there was pushing newer stars. Im glad punk said this cause i truly think this is why nxt is so good today and why rollins and many others are main roster success.
I think so too and especially after he took William's job.
Everyone shitting on him here prolly doesn’t realize him and brian danielson are loving live in AEW
This didn't age well
They say there's two sides to every story. I would like to hear the other side of this. It's easy to tell a "big man" story where "I walked in there, told my boss what's WHAT, and as I left he was crying blah blah". Maybe Punk was hard to work with, thought he was a pre-madona and only deserved to wrestle the very best. Like how he said he didn't need to wrestle HHH, that HHH needed to wrestle him. Maybe Punk was really a punk. Idk, I'd just like to hear the other side of the story.
WWE collectively has never responded to this particular part of the story. So for all intents and purposes I would have to believe Punk until they say otherwise.
real talk dude had that interview with stone cold and he thought he became cm cold austin?Austin?. idk watever
It's prima donna, not pre-madona
Reputation is key. Wwe is known to do this with its talent
I came back to visit this after hearing about the Mustafa Ali situation and the reports Finn Balor’s main event run is over. WWE takes people who love professional wrestling and destroys their passion. They ran off every wrestler who loved the art of wrestling and then let part timers like Brock and Ronda collect all the big money and main events.
No true, Ronda and Brock are both larger than life superstars who put over WWE talent. Ronda boosted Becky's stock after the WrestleMania match. Brock put over Rollins, Reigns, and McIntyre clean. These are all top guys.
Phil is a very disillusioned man. He became the longest reigning champion of fake fighting and all of the sudden he thinks he is a legitimate bad ass and decides to fight in UFC. Got pummelled in 2 fights. That brought him back to reality real quick !!
Love to see you get in the octagon or the ring with punk .... he'd tie your sorry ass in so many knots and tap you out in less than 10 seconds. Pillock !!
@@Amiga1200Mark don’t be mad because he insulted your boyfriend. Punk isn’t a real fighter.
@@Amiga1200Mark These people always have a lot to say on their keyboard, but in real life, they're as weak as they say the people they're criticising are.
@@subutexsurgeon5113 he is not but still he beat u . its sad
@@mohammadabdi9178 you are a dude smoocher
Wild watching this in November 2023
Its amazing how relative CM Punk's frustration and comments about the WWE's corporate model and how it affects the wrestles is close in comparison to us who work normal jobs. I loved doing what I was doing and enjoyed working for my company and liked most of the guys I worked with. But when the "new" corporate culture took over and a yes man was hired as my supervisor, it became an absolute miserable place to work. They don't care about you as a person and try to take more and more money and benefits from you.
That's the inhuman corporate culture nowadays on some work environments. No wonder high attrition rate during Covid and after.
Love this interview !!!
Cm punk impersonation of triple h was so funny it was literally him
Anyone watching this after he just returned at Survivor Series?
I respect Cm Punk more than ever
Byron Saxton said it best last night, "This is a waste of time!" Here's to making it better... wrestling! 🤖🧡
who’s here after cm punk came back in 2023?? interesting chain of events
The Rock took Cody's main event spot
I haven't followed wrestling since the reign of terror. More than him giving it to Vince, I'm glad Punk let it rip on triple h. That guy and michaels deserve so much shit for all that they did over the years.
Not a CM Punk fan but he was right about Vince, HHH and WWE. He was only wrong about getting more over after leaving WWE. Really ruined his character by losing in MMA twice.
No why? Dude had the balls to go fight the real fight
@@extraterrestrialhorse9722 I think what the person meant was that now he sort of outed himself as a weak fighter for real, so how can we suspend our disbelief when we watch him in pro wrestling? Nobody's denying the guts and determination it took for him to get in there and fight, but I think it's detrimental to his kayfabe character.
@@SomeoneElse- he's fighting world class fighters. Any man in MMA, Bellator, UFC etc, could whip any of our asses, so he might not have beaten them, but it doesn't mean he's a weak fighter or not tough.
@@mykoniichistorychannel well yeah...did I imply something different?
@@mykoniichistorychannel Mike jackson was not a world class fighter. He had 2 recorded fights and after cm punk, he never fought again
This aged well 😂😂😂
Listening to this so many years later it’s even clearer that: EVERY WORD Punk said was right! Triple H was seriously being a piece of shit towards him… NOC 2011 with triple going over made ZERO F‘n sense…. And main events like Batista vs Randy didn’t make any sense either…
Punk had all the right in the world to be frustrated… I have no clue how Punk‘s haters can not see or accept that…
HHH is the real manipulator. He married Stephanie is the worst thing happen to wwe ever. Still to this day wwe promotes triple h like he is a real big deal as he convinced vince it is good for business as he is the ceo. But all he is a coward just like his character who has massive ego. He is at best a b+ player.
He was always the guy working with the big star.
I mean he’s in charge of NXT and that’s like the best product rn after Smackdown
Well they don’t call him the Cerebral Assassin for nothing
I think CM Punk is jealous of Cena...
Fax triple h isn't a draw in my opinion dude is one of the most overrated superstars ever 1997-2007 should have been it for him and have him occasionally peep in like Michaels but not straight up have him win titles and main event still after that like God damn idk what worse triple H's stale ass gimmick or Cena's stale ass 5 moves of doom
CM Punk vs AJ Styles would be a great Wrestlemania Main Event matchup!
Listening to this, and as of last night, he returned to WWE
This aged well.
It's funny how the two big matches leading up to the main event at that years WrestleMania we're gonna be the same as the previous but just switched opponents. With Punk, HHH, Brock, and Taker.
vince and triple h never liked him coz of that shoot pipebomb promo and always try to overshadowed him at his wwe title reign with cena rock and triple didn't even put him over at night of champions 2011
It's actually even before the pipebomb. Punk has gained a reputation by Vince loyalist as a whiner and complainer but what he actually was doing was trying to push his own creative input which would make more sense storyline and entertainment wise, people say he has beef with Cena and Rock but years after this he actually has reconciled with the two and in fact has a good a relationship with Cena and even compliment him on his last house show, both of them are quite alike in that sense as Cena has stated he always edit scripts and push for his creative input, the difference is Cena is Vince's guy so to them he is taking the initiative to grab the brass ring whereas Punk was not so is considered nuisance. Top WWE brass dislike that guys they have no intention to go over push for their own agenda and killling the pipebomb moment was a way to let Punk know how they really see him
@@s4xtt
Very well said 👏
It’s still crazy how the greatest pro wrestler on the planet today arguably was not planned to be in the main event of WM in his year. I believe people take certain things that CM Punk says out of context leading them to believe he is a “crybaby”. He really just seems jaded about the ass backwards decision making at the top level of WWE. We have seen it numerous times, too many to count at this point, piss poor decision making with no common sense. Whoever is making those decisions may understand some semblance of a “business model” (they want to draw money for the main event of WM by plugging in household names) but they do not understand wrestling. They do not understand that wrestling needs to evolve, the fan base needs to be able to perceive guys like Daniel Bryan (or anyone who has proved themselves to be able to perform at that level) as “main event guys”. And I’m not just talking about the main event of WM, you need more main event guys to carry the company throughout the year and challenge for the title and put asses in seats.
Whoever is making these types of decisions simply doesn’t understand that.
Wrestling wasn't the same when he retired
I find it so ironic that Chris Jericho badmouthed punk saying that him being in the Main Event of Wrestlemania doesn’t matter, to then him saying that he was annoyed at Vince for not putting him and KO as the main event of Mania for the Universal Title; so much so that it led to Chris leaving WWE. I know they’re friends and both have ego’s based on how good they are, but it’s funny that Jericho left for the same reason Punk did.
Wrestling companies have toxic environments. You might be promised something but no matter what you do, someone else comes and steal spotlight at the last minute which happened to Jericho and Owens match after promising to be main event got shot down due to Goldberg return.
4:06 when punk said "Do you understand that" the dude he was talking to sounded scared or like nervous lmao, punks so condescending it made him scared to speak for a bit lmaooo
its colt cabana
If it wasn't for Daniel Bryan the main event of Wrestlemania 30 would be one of the most disgusting, unwatched and forgotten ever, and they realized it before it was too late so they put and let Bryan win so made history, and they were right...unfortunately no realized that Cm Punk vs Daniel Bryan would be one of the most remebering and cheered of all times
In 2024, CM Punk still told the truth, the Rock is gonna lose to Roman and go back to acting
2011 was CM Punk's year
2014 was Daniel Bryan's year and WWE listened to the fans
2023-2024 was Cody's year
Danielson was on the committee that fired Punk from AEW no? Yet here Punk is defending his right to a Mania main event. This guy is gold. I was never a fan… but I have to be one now. He is a great talker and is just real. I hear myself in his monologues & dialogues. I am sure so many other people do too! So pumped I will get to see this last run of his unfold. Great times for a lapsed wrestling fan.
He earnt that main event lady lol. Hes back now. He is a cult of personality for real
Yeah so? Punk was behaving in an unprofessional manner and got dealt with
Absolutely you should respect cm punk
@@KD400_absolutely
@@Ahmed-og2jm The Elite and Jack Perry also acted unprofessional. The only difference between them and Punk is that Punk is a real draw and wanted to make the company money which is a big no no in AEW.
Listening to this after all the drama he's caused, this just makes Punk look unbelievably stupid. He talks about getting the title & the main event, but thinks he should leave if he's not given it? What he said, he sounds like he wanted the Hogan treatment. Then he contradicts himself when he talks about others not getting the main event or title. He's just a phoney
Agreed.
The older i get the more i relate to this.
He Did The Same Thing 2 Rvd
And Moxley too.
Who
@@timeless74 Triple H
Booker t Too at Wrestlemania 19
Cm punk AEW bound
CM punk is making the Ultimate Warrior look like a saint.
They fired the fiend that's all you need to know about how WWE does business.
Right! I wonder if undertaker were a new character, if they'd fire him?!
Listening to this (and many other stories and things don't get me wrong) is why I have zero remorse for NXT being taken from Triple H and he pretty much getting erased. He pissed off and screwed over so many people in his career.
At the end of the day it’s Vince McMahon’s company, so he oversaw the screwing over of people by Triple H and allowed it and has now turned his back on him, so between Vince McMahon and Triple H; who is the bad guy?
@@mattlarson8358 both.
Now we wait for CM Punk shoots on the day he left AEW
Unfortunately NDA's will prevent that
Same they did to Chyna, and lately Liv Morgan! When fans finally came back they were all cheering for Liv!!!!
Guess who’s back, back again
For straight edge he sure gas a potty mouth . I fuckin love it !
Guess hell just froze over