Does Punk's Win Over Bron Help WWE's Future? Reacting to Pro Wrestling 🔥HOT TAKES🔥
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, friend. Oh, Steve here. And welcome back to going in raw. The only pro wrestling podcast need to be listening to now in fruit stripe vision, depending on, I doubt that was like the one comment that I actually legitimately laughed at because, you know, a lot of people are like, Oh man, I love new graphics. And I'm like, yeah, cool. And then there's like one guy's like, you look like root stripes. You remember that gum losses flavor super quick. Yeah, most of that shit. Dude, you remember Bazooka Joe gum? Oh, my God. It was barely like, well, edible isn't really the word for gum. No, but like it would get hard immediately. Immediately? It'd be a brick. Yeah. As soon as you bought it or whatever. Yeah, I used, you know, growing up playing baseball.
Oh, yeah. Oh, Big League Chew was good, though. Yeah, that's good stuff. That's what you would have. Although, you know, seeing that it's produced to replicate chewing tobacco, that's not good. But the actual gum is great. We used to have candy cigarettes back in the 80s. Yeah, I remember those too. You think Big Tobacco was behind that? Had to have been, right? I wouldn't be surprised. We got some hot takes here about the world of pro wrestling. First up, from Broken Novocaine, Broken Novocaine says this, Old Man Punk beating Brawn Breaker, yeah, is the type of booking that would have made 2014 CM Punk walk out of the company. I don't know, because I think 2014 CM Punk would have been pretty satisfied main eventing.
Well, let me think about this. Yeah, what, yeah. Punk is in the Braun Breaker role, and somebody much older than him. Yeah, yeah. So who would have been like 50 that was relevant back in 2014? Undertaker. Yeah, sure. Can't complain about that, really. No, not really. I mean, I just watched a video where Punk said that his WrestleMania match against Undertaker was one of his favorites, so I don't think he'd have a problem with that. Yeah, he lost to Undertaker at WrestleMania. Wait, wasn't that 2013, 2014? Something like that. Yeah, it was one of the years that they did Roxina. Well, he wasn't there in 2014. He walked out of the Rumble. No, 2012 or 2013. It must have been 2013. I will say this. My counter to this is such.
If 2014 CM Punk had been sat down by the powers that be, by Vince McMahon and Triple H, and let's say they weren't as condescending as CM Punk claimed that they were back then. If they sat him down and said, hey, listen, We've got a plan for you. It involves you coming close, but coming up short, but you are going to main event WrestleMania, not this coming year, but here's the story. This is the map that we've got. This is the journey that we're gonna take, and we're pretty firm on this. We are gonna make you, we are gonna constantly remind you that you are, or refer to you, I should say, as the future of the company. You're going to lead your own stable, Um, and you're going to be main eventing WrestleMania, uh, in Saudi Arabia and you're going to be crowned there or SummerSlam, uh, this year, later this year.
Yeah. But it's gonna, but, but part of your story is losing at, at Netflix. He'd be like, what the hell? Netflix? You mean the rental service? The mail-in rental service? Yeah, we're doing raw DVDs every week. How are people going to watch that in a number that makes us money? That doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make any sense. You need to talk to your glad-handing yes-men.
How did CM Punk’s surprise win on Raw spark debate about WWE’s long-term booking?
No, I think he would be fine with that. I think that the kind of booking where if Braun Breaker had this chance lost and then became firmly stuck in the mid-card... and the people got behind him and they still didn't do anything with him, then I feel like, yeah, probably CM Punk probably would have had a problem with that. Yeah, probably. But by 2014, I already had a 434-day reign, so... Yeah, but what he really wanted was that Mania main event. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. He deserved that. Yeah, at the same time, though, I don't know how much... how much explaining creative does in terms of relaying the talent, what they have in store for them long term.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–3:43
2
How did CM Punk’s surprise win on Raw spark debate about WWE’s long-term booking?
3:43–5:44
3
Would 2014 CM Punk have reacted differently to being beaten by an older veteran?
5:44–33:03
4
Does Triple H communicate long-term plans to talent more than Vince McMahon did?
33:03–42:45
5
Can CM Punk’s current push on Raw meaningfully impact WWE’s future storylines?
42:45–1:07:15
6
Is Triple H succeeding at turning NXT call-ups into main roster stars?
1:07:15–1:11:02