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Almost ten years since the Summer of Punk and Punks about to go for a world title, the first in ten years. I don't expect many here will remember how shit WWE was back then. It was a decade after attitude. Guerrero, Benoit and the less popular ruthless era were distant memories. I and many hadn't watched wrestling for almost a decade.. I didn't know anything of WWE by then. All I knew was that Cena and Orton were on all the time and people were sick of it. Or Batista. Nobody but children, and those clinging on to the old days watched it. It was like gee golly early 90s WWF. I can't remember how it happened but I must've watched a YouTube clip in 2011. A lean, tattoo wrestler sitting cross legged talking about Vince dying for the show to get better, his moronic daughter and doofus son in law marrying into the business, had me questioning if this was a work. And it worked. WWE was like dragging nails across a chalkboard. You'd rather be waterboarded than watch a post 2005 episode. You wouldn't understand if you weren't there and then. It was a glimmer, a spark, a new hope. When has any wrestler talked like this before? Since Austin can't remember. Nobody had balls to say what everyone was thinking but Punk. And that is why I will always remember him. I don't agree with everything he says or does, he's not perfect. He's not the Chudster, he's no Shockmaster, maybe no Owen Hart reading a book to his children any night he can, but he was the champion in 2011. He said what many of us wanted to say. He was the voice of the voiceless. Yes he got his ass handed to him by a teacher playing basketball with his head but sometimes you just have to risk a little to get a lot. And boy he risked alot. But respects due where it is. Punk btfo everyone, carried the belt didn't miss one townhall match for over a year despite injuries, and led in merch for so long despite being a scrawny, scrappy fellow in the land of the turkish oiled giants. Thank you have a nice day!
