We are all guilty of having a bad day. When you\u2019re in the public eye if you have one prickly exchange with a member of the media or with a fan, then you\u2019re labelled an asshole or a prick. <\/p>\n
CM Punk may in fact be those things sometimes, but aren\u2019t we all? It\u2019s part of being human. <\/p>\n
CM Punk was recently interviewed for Complex magazine and apparently he wasn\u2019t thrilled about some of the questions he was asked by writer Kevin Wong. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be the first to admit I come to Punk\u2019s defence because I, like a lot of people, am a HUGE fan. I still miss seeing him on my TV screen every Monday night. There is something so vanilla about the product now. The product needs the kind of grit that only the former leader of the Straight Edge Society and the Chicago made Second City Saint can bring to the table. However, I\u2019m not just a fan of CM Punk when he\u2019s entertaining me in a wrestling ring. I am genuinely interested in whatever he does. It doesn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s writing comic books or graphic novels or perusing a career in MMA. I\u2019m also a big fan of his wife AJ Lee. I can\u2019t wait to read her memoir when it comes out. Based on the very small portion of their personalities that I have gleamed threw the interviews they have given, I thought it was cool that the two of them found each other and I even marked out a little.<\/p>\n
Punk\u2019s stepping into an arena that he had limited experience in when the big announcement was made that he would be fighting under the UFC banner. Right from the start there have been so called experts, who have never stepped foot in the octagon, speculating that this man from the fake world of wrestling may have bitten off more than he can chew. Jealous MMA grapplers have been complaining that he moved to the front of the line. The UFC is where countless men and women scrape and claw to be. CM Punk gets a pass to straight to pay per-view because people like me, who have never watched an MMA card, will defiantly want to see Punk\u2019s first fight. Others will want to see him get his ass kicked to prove they were right about him all along. It\u2019s about new eyes and more money. This is a great business move for UFC.<\/p>\n
If you were busting your ass and giving your all to follow your passion, wouldn\u2019t you get angry and frustrated when all you\u2019re getting is questions and criticism? <\/p>\n
Kevin Wong asked Punk about weaknesses or flaws he\u2019s working on in training. When Punk told him \u201cI work on everything\u201d Kevin didn\u2019t feel he got enough from the answer so he rephrased it and Punk came back with \u201cIt\u2019s a boring answer, because it\u2019s kind of a boring question.\u201d I think Punk gave the right answer. Here is man who, like so many fighters and members of the media have reminded us before, has never had a professional MMA match in his life. Why wouldn\u2019t he be working on every aspect of the craft? It\u2019s a perfectly acceptable answer to me.<\/p>\n
A question about being anxious or intimidated to be transitioning from the WWE to the UFC gets a response from Punk that shows he\u2019s frustrated \u201cYour question is insulting. You\u2019re asking me if I know the difference between the WWE and the UFC?\u201d Again, I don\u2019t blame Punk for reacting like this. He\u2019s been eating sleeping and breathing his training in preparation for the biggest moment of his life and he\u2019s also been talking a lot to the press. Punk takes this VERY seriously and at this point anyone interviewing him should realize that he\u2019s sick of talking about the WWE and he isn\u2019t na\u00efve about what he\u2019s getting into when it comes to MMA. <\/p>\n
Yes I\u2019m a CM Punk fan and this whole column might seem like he can do no wrong and everyone else can do no right, but he\u2019s not your conventional role model. If he could smile for the camera and give you the cookie cutter answers to the same questions repeated over and over\u2026..then maybe Vince and company would have put him in the spot that he earned in professional wrestling. <\/p>\n
I am very grateful that Rajah is giving me this platform to express myself, but in my opinion CM Punk didn\u2019t \u201cflip out when asked about the WWE.\u201d I encourage you to read the article for yourself here<\/p>\n
The only thing I do take issue with is the pictures of him wearing a New Jersey Devils t-shirt. Although I guess it balances out with the ones in which he\u2019s sporting a Chicago toque. Go Blackhawks!<\/p>\n
Sorry if a column called \u201cWWE In Dept\u201d didn\u2019t dig deep into what\u2019s happening in the WWE right now. WrestleMania is on the horizon and we\u2019ll have plenty of time to talk about stuff like\u2026.who the hell is Undertaker facing?
\nA Huge shout out to Jeff Martin and Brian Burga for having me on their \u201cHigh Spot\u201d podcast recently. We spent almost an hour taking about The Royal Rumble, AJ Styles and predicting the card for Mania. You can listen to that episode https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bry-28\/the-high-spot-episode-19<\/p>\n
As always I welcome your feedback. You can email me at johnathanprice@live.ca<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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