>>15457276>too old to start a professional>too vegan to power through shit>too little experience in real threatening situations and fights>too stiff and scared to be effective And I don't even mean that scared part spitefully. One of the key components of performing in front of a crowd, fighting, and talking to a crowd is staying comfortable and relaxed so you don't over exert yourself and tense up. The thing is his opponents probably couldn't carry a mic for a second or listen to the crowd for reactions or get through a match without goldbergin' some poor bastards neck but that's not what they trained for either.
In a fight you need to block that shit off, need to focus on whats effective and not what looks good for the crowd, you need to fight with the same level of relaxation as if you were playing with legos with your nephew to stay lose enough to have to have that "snap" in your punches and kicks.
Fighting for real is a whole different game from professional wrestling, that's no big revelation, but its important to understand how training for one thing for a decade and trying to gain that difference in short order is basically like a career power lifter trying to become a competitive cyclist in a year and going against semi-pros. Everything you trained for previously that gained you success is now working against you - in cycling it would be your bone density, muscle construction and aerobics for one, same sort of principals apply on Punk.
Punk didn't know what the fuck he was doing because he hadn't done it enough so he's too focused on trying to do something than what his opponent is gonna do and thus he's working against himself with the opponent, tiring himself out tensing up.
