“Regarding C.M. Punk, there is obviously tons of talk regarding him returning. There have been rumors that it’s happening, but those in WWE have only said that no deal is completed and those close to Punk have told us that it is his intention to return and the two sides are in talks. One would expect if such a deal is made that Survivor Series weekend in Chicago would be the time to do the surprise return”
lmao
I think he rubbed the AEW locker-room the wrong way because he seen himself as better than all the “indie” guys, which basically was the entire locker-room. He might not cause the same level of damage amongst peers that share that same
inflated egomindset.I mean, his attitude wasn’t that different in his previous WWE run, from what I understand. He apparently very much saw himself as a “locker room leader”, and rubbed a lot of people the wrong way by trying to act in that capacity. And he did walk out on the company after a heated argument with Vince.
We cut him a lot of slack because most of his criticisms about WWE were what we were saying all along, but looking back, none of what has gone down should have been a surprise.
Thing is, you can be right for the wrong reasons.
If both you and I say “The sky is blue” but I have lived in a cave my whole life and have never seen it, I’m taking that statement entirely on faith or pulling it out of my ass, it’s not as epistemically sound as someone who has seen the sky multiple times and has indeed noted that it’s mostly blue.
Punk said some correct things, doesn’t mean he agrees with them for the right reasons.
If you think of the pipebomb, if you didn’t know who he was talking to you’d think he was hovering at the bottom of the mid-card jerking off and collecting a paycheck.
How is someone in a program with Cena, of all people, “barely promoted”?
For that matter how is someone allowed to go off the cuff in WWE while being undervalued or mistreated?
His criticisms were valid but he shouldn’t have been the one to make them about his own position.