>>7175186Most of America are on Punk's side.
We live in a wrestling bubble. All of this inside baseball bullshit is just for us in this bubble. Supreme geekdom, and we've grown to be ok with this.
America doesn't know Phil, it knows CM Punk. America doesn't know NJPW star Kenny Omega, Hangman Adam Page and the Young Bucks. They combined hold as much average American viewer cache as Evil Uno alone.
But CM Punk isn't the same. So once you know that, and you have a start up wrestling company, less than 5 years in, and you find yourself with the hottest returning commodity in the wrestling business who's making a return, only a fool would bend to the whims of this fucking bubble we're in despite the mass American viewing audience.
You gotta be dumb as fuck to legitimately pin these "sides" against one another.
Really. Take your EVP titles and stuff them up your ass. If it means that much to the talents, they can be a mark in the ring while on the indies for this wrestling bubble of two hundred thousand, or less. The same bubble that pirates ppvs and is never happy about anything.
Vince was right when he said fuck you all, me included, I'm just refuse to play blind.
I hope Vince's departure only continues to destabilize the business, for every company. Vince controlled the industry on whole. Hunter couldn't run NXT.
AEW will be as fine as any other company with a bottomless well of money to pump from. So it doesn't matter who's side I'm on, but, for the record Punk's. Those cruiser weight evps can cruiser wait, brother.
