Posted by: Tree
- [215341418] Wed, Jun 15, 2005, 22:36
well, looks like GO's gamble on picking up Punk might have paid off, as i believe he's WWE bound now.
his last ROH match is this saturday, for certain.
i'm gonna miss the convos i had with him about his tattoos, his love of the Clash, and me turning him onto new music like Avenged Sevenfold.
he's a good guy. i hope he headlines WM22 next year.
congrats Punk, you deserve it.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Sun, Jul 24, 2005, 13:53
For that good of a card I was kind of underwhelmed last night... highlight was probably AJ's performance (neckbreaker on that chair and the slam through the announce table great spots) but he got screwed so it lost some steam. The whole thing with Nana and covering up that girl was too drawn out and people were yawning... No Hardy (not that I expected him, but it would have been a good surprise).. Punk seems confused a bit by what he should be doing... the change in music has hurt his presence too - but i guess thats a way for people to not cheer for him.
Just read this on PW Torch and I guess I wasn't the only one - this is putting the blame squarely on the booker - pw torch ROH 7.23.05
All that being said - an average ROH show is still more entertaining than what WWE has been producing recently. Next show for me will be 8/20 in Jersey. And my g/f seems to be getting into it - she now knows some names etc and was asking questions which showed her interest.
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Great One
ID: 376372516 Sun, Jul 31, 2005, 16:56
CM Punk and Alexis Laree were both scheduled to debut on Sunday’s Heat however was pulled from the show as management wasn't happy with the bout. A source said that the match didn't do anything to make Punk look "like a WWE Superstar" and he didn't come across "spectacular" enough. Punk is scheduled for this Monday's RAW, which means he will either be working a dark match or they will have him debut on RAW. ________________________________________________
So I am guessing his Heat match will not be played tonight? does he debut directly on RAW? that seems a bit unprecendented for an Indy guy lately... to skip OVW entirely that is. I wish they would do some vignettes for him to build some anticipation first instead of him just walking out for a normal match. That would kind of be an underwhelming debut unless its storyline related, like jumping Edge with Hardy?! Plus he "still has the ROH belt" so maybe that could be worked in somehow?
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Sun, Aug 21, 2005, 16:17
tree.. got this from the boards and the guy said there will be an updated one with his last match vs. Colt Cabana added in. Plenty of footage from his title win too where I am front row. I am so happy I went there instead of the concert I almost went to instead. So happy to have been a part of it.
All - So you wanna see what WWE has on their hands and what we've all been hyping? God I hope WWE doesn't screw this up...
can't remember the name of the song, but it's by the Bouncing Souls (one of Punk's favorite bands, along with Rancid, The Clash, Lars Fredricksen and the Bastards, and a few more), and in Chicago, when he came out for his last match, after his traditional theme song by AFI, that song played.
man, that video nearly put a tear in my eye. if there is ANY justice in this world, CM Punk is going to be a big star.
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blue hen Leader
ID: 710321114 Mon, Aug 22, 2005, 16:49
Great video, great wrestler.
But that AFI entrance is what's going to make him a star, although I'm not sure it'll have the same effect in a big arena.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 07:39
I think his skills will probably make him a star BH...
You notice some of those video clips are from the show you were at in NYC? THat ballroom is very distinct with that chandelier dangling over the ring lol..
This guy is supposed to add clips from his last match too, I can't wait for that update.
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Tree Sustainer
ID: 599393013 Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 14:06
Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 07:48
Tree - has the thought crossed your mind that maybe Punk would be aligned with the "punk rock chick" diva Ashley... this seems logical to me. Especially after Trish and Tomko or whoever start beating her ass down, she could call up "her boyfriend from Chicago" or whatever lol...
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Tree Sustainer
ID: 599393013 Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 10:15
i never thought of that, but it might work.
regardless, if there's ever a guy i wanted the WWE to "get right", it's Punk. not only because i know him, and that he works hard, it's that his gimmick is so good, and quite original. when i was a punk rock teenager a LONG time ago, i always wondered why there weren't more "punk" wrestlers.
i really wanna see Spanky make it too, since one of the main reasons he's returning to the E is so he can afford to propose to his girlfriend, Taylor Methany, the runner-up from the first season of Tough Enough...
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blue hen Leader
ID: 710321114 Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 11:16
Spanky definitely made an impact the first time around. And that's, as DDP would say, a good thing.
You were a teenager a LONG time ago? Exactly how old are you? Hehe.
And Great One, you are right - I definitely noticed the scenes from the Ballroom. I was looking for myself but didn't see me.
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Tree Sustainer
ID: 599393013 Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 11:18
You were a teenager a LONG time ago? Exactly how old are you? Hehe.
17, nearly 18 years removed from my teenage years...
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Great One
ID: 25772813 Fri, Sep 02, 2005, 17:33
Tree - have you actually read the lyrics to that song he came out to in Chicago and used in that tribute? wow... you'd almost think he wrote it word for word to his fans and the other wrestlers... even "going down south" which he is doing right this moment. "Night Train" by the Bouncing Souls:
"Goodbye to me and you. Goodbye to the life we knew. One last long embrace. Let go and walk on through.
I'm leaving everything behind for a peace that I can't find. The ghosts that roam this house like winter air right through our souls. And it feels like dying. It just feels like time to go.
Goin down south to dream another dream. Maybe check out Memphis, Tennessee. Take the night train and an extra pair of jeans. Can't think of anything else I really need. And all my experiences ride with me. This town is dead to me. And I can't stop chasing my dreams.
I love you more than anything, but what you want I could never be. I love you more than anything, but only alone can we both be free. Goodbye to me and you. Goodbye to the life we knew. Wipe the tears from your eyes. Let go and walk on through."
CM Punk made his debut last night (at OVW) and was sent to the hospital afterwards with a possible broken nose and eardrum injury after a hard slap by Danny Inferno.
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Great One
ID: 25772813 Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 18:50
Well thats not good news. But as long as he is ok in a couple months - its all good... lol.
Jeez, why does this Tree guy brag and brag about "knowing" Punk? You're full of it. You may have met him a few times or said "hi", but I doubt he considers you a close friend.
I've worked multiple shows with Punker and I don't brag as you do.
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Farn Sustainer
ID: 451044109 Wed, Nov 02, 2005, 00:02
Moron, party of 1, your table is ready...
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Tree
ID: 3610026 Wed, Nov 02, 2005, 07:08
Jeez, why does this Tree guy brag and brag about "knowing" Punk? You're full of it. You may have met him a few times or said "hi", but I doubt he considers you a close friend.
I've worked multiple shows with Punker and I don't brag as you do.
hey Feinstein, what's up?
i also doubt he considers me a close friend.
however, if i were to walk up to him and say hello, he'd greet me by name/nickname, offer his hand out to me (or, as he did after the final show in chicago give me one of those "manly" hugs we men seem to do these days), and we'd have a pleasant conversation about nothing too deep, such as music and tattoos.
anyway, it's awfully easy to attack someone on a message board, with a false name, and a false email address, isn't it?
either you're pathetic, or you're one of my friends, ribbing me.
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Great One
ID: 48842511 Fri, Nov 04, 2005, 17:31
Tree - have you seen anyone on the boards with the final updated tribute video including the Final Chapter match?
I did buy that DVD and its amazing. You are very visible too in a couple of the opening scenes when he is standing in the corner of the ring.
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Great One
ID: 48842511 Fri, Nov 04, 2005, 17:32
AND I am gonna order the Kenta vs. Joe DVD as soon as I can scrape a few bucks together.
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blue hen
ID: 349532121 Fri, Nov 04, 2005, 17:52
I've worked multiple shows with Punker and I don't brag as you do.
Perhaps that's because you never say anything on these boards?
I, for one, have seen at least one wrestler say hello to Tree at a show. So I don't consider him to be "full of it."
Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Wed, Dec 28, 2005, 11:18
Tree - can you give expound upon the relationship between Eddie and Punk? I just came across this...
During Punk's early days with IWA-MS, he was also able to work with Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio. Guerrero was temporarily out of WWE due to substance abuse problems and Mysterio was yet to be brought into the Smackdown cruiserweight division. So, it was a great opportunity to work with both them in a three-way dance. I've seen the match. Good stuff. Punk and Guerrero still keep in touch. Mostly because Punk is straight edge and Guerrero wanted to hang around someone like that during his drug problems. The story goes like this. Punk and Guerrero were in a restaraunt once and Eddie noticed a tattoo on Punk's knuckles. "Drug?" he said. Punk put his knuckles together to show it actually said "Drug Free."
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Tree Sustainer
ID: 599393013 Wed, Dec 28, 2005, 13:04
i actually don't know anything additional about Punk and Guerrero - i do know that the last entry in Punk's journal, which was just after Eddie died, read as follows:
Kids and Heros I ain't nobody. I'm just some Punk rock kid with a big mouth and an opinion. I'm just some kid...
Eddie Guerrero was a hero of mine. I was fortunate enough to work with him many times, and he helped me more then I could ever put into words. Eddie was my friend. He still is. Maybe i'll be back on here to tell some stories when I clear my head, right now is just too hard.
I remember Eddie Guerrero.
Cheat to win. XpunkX
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Sun, Feb 12, 2006, 10:53
So CM Punk made a surprise ROH appearance last night and had a main event match. Yes I missed it due to the blizzard.
Tree will surely provide the results and otherwise insane details. The basic story is that LowKi, Abyss and a couple other guys all left ROH this week (and a few others couldn't make it due to the travel worries as they are on the TNA PPV tonight) and ROH pulled a few strings to get Punk to make a guest appearance so the fans got their money's worth.
Also, Maria was at the event with him which is kind of cool she made it to Long Island with him in a freaking blizzard. She scored some points with me for that.
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Tree
ID: 14157206 Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 09:24
whew. ok. i'm late on the upswing. the blizzard last week, and trying to get home in the middle of it, really waylayed my old ass.
in regards to the ROH departures.
Abyss left (he was a part-timer anyway), because he wanted to be pushed more, and ROH felt they should push their homegrown talent more, not "TNA" talent. the parting was amicable.
Milano Collection AT has allegedly left, because he claims he wasn't given what he was promised. he asked his "agent" to get him other non ROH gigs, and among those was Pro Wrestling Elite, owned by kiddie diddler and former ROH boss Rob Feinstein. This of course, doesn't sit well with the current ROH brain trust, so yea, MCAT is probably gone.
Low Ki and ROH parted ways for undisclosed "business" reasons. my guess is that Ki asked for more money, only after being booked in three upcoming main events. then, he walked when he didnt get the raise...
the night of the show, AFTER they were all in the building already, Alex Shelley, Jay Lethal, Homicide, Roderick Strong, and Austin Aries - were ordered to leave the ROH show and fly out in the middle of the blizzard so they wouldn't miss the TNA PPV the next night - something to me that not only puts the wrestlers in harm's way, but also makes them lose the ROH payday.
Shelley, Lethal, and 'Cide left. Strong and Aries, to their credit, stayed and wrestled. they still made the PPV the next day, no problem.
for their efforts, TNA suspended them for 2 months.
as for Punk, he secretly committed to working the ROH show, with his boss' permission, well before this whole TNA fiasco. unfortunately, his boss didn't clear it with his bosses, and so on, so it's kind of ugly now.
Punk came in, wrestled a tag match, got the pinfall on former rival Jimmy Rave, and it was a fun time. He saw it as his chance to say "goodbye" to the east coast fans, because he never really got the chance.
the 500 or so fans in attendance were very appreciative of Punk showing up. This was his coming home, the same way Tommy Dreamer would "Come home" to ECW.
after the match, he soaked in the cheers for a bit, and literally was mobbed by fans who wanted to say hi, touch him, get an autograph, i mean, all of that stuff that you expect from a hollywood star. he truly has charisma.
at one point, still in his wrestling trunks, he broke free from the crowd, ran out a pair of open doors right into the snow building up outside. he flopped into the snow, and proceeded to do a snow angel while people flocked outside to carouse with him.
it really was a special moment. for all the naysayers out there, Punk truly is a great guy, even if his car was too crowded to give me a ride back to Queens, where he was staying...lol...
it's flattering to me, when i walk over to shake his hand, and he congratulates me on my recent wedding. (that in itself is another fun story. i may have told it already, so in case i did, i won't repeat)....
and yea, he was there with Maria. she is even more pretty in person, then on TV. she's a pretty tiny girl, and has more of a punk rock aesthetic to her fashion than you might expect.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Wed, Mar 01, 2006, 22:16
Mike D Leader
ID: 041831612 Wed, Mar 01, 2006, 22:29
LMAO! "The Punkmeister"
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Wed, Mar 01, 2006, 22:32
"would I get one of those nifty shirts?!... and some of those magic pants?!...." lol
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Wed, Mar 01, 2006, 22:40
YouTube is amazing. I just searched cm punk and came up with Doane vs. Punk and Vampiro vs Punk and a lot of the OVW stuff...
and even this one from IWA-MidSouth -- Rey vs. Eddie vs. CM Punk
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Wed, Mar 01, 2006, 23:15
Next time you see Vince actually let someone do a high risk move... consider this Jack Evans vs. Teddy Hart vs. Petey Williams match as a basis for comparison of the action you get from an average indy match... Match Highlights
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 00:03
Just watched Straight Shootin with Punk and Joe... Some great stories on there.
Can you further explain this FIP/StripClubBrawl story? They fought from the arena threw the crowd and it spilled into a strip club? And then Punk is exchanging chops on the stage and turns around and calls one of the strippers a slut and all hell breaks loose?! lol... I can't even fathom this scenario.
And the Corino/Punk at a transvestite bar in London was great... getting lessons from Steamboat on how to run those 60 minute draws... Foley's plan to bring them in to WWE (which on a side note, I think could work again right now just with Punk in Foley's current fued with Edge).
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 00:11
haha...
Falls Count Anywhere, FIP Championship Match: CM Punk v. Homicide Punk and Homicide brawled all around and outside of the building before their match at Emergence, hence this match. Punk slugs away to start and shoulder blocks him in the corner. Homicide goes for a piledriver but Azrieal runs out from the back and cuts him off. Punk chokes Homicide out with his t-shirt with Azrieal's help. Rainman comes out and brawls with Azrieal to the back. Homicide hits Punk with a double ax handle and they brawl into the crowd and towards a pool table where Punk gets a pin fall for 2. Homicide puts a garbage can over Punk's head, and then takes it off revealing a plastic garbage bag. That's as close as I think I'll ever get to seeing the Funk/Flair plastic bag incident reproduced. They fight outside and Punk gets rammed into a Ryder truck. Punk tries to crotch Homicide on a rail but misses and Homicide goes to the eyes. He lifts the rail and rams it onto Punk's back. Punk climbs on the Ryder truck and Homicide follows him. The referee also follows. Punk goes for the Pepsi Plunge but ends up getting clotheslined for 2. Crazy. Punk hits a DDT for 2, still on top of the truck. They climb down and fight around the parking lot. They brawl towards a gate where Homicide grates Punk's face against the mesh. Punk beats Homicide onto a bench and hits the mounted punches. He hits a backdrop on the concrete for 2. The match is suddenly clipped to Punk and Homicide fighting inside a strip club. They brawl to the stage where some scantily clad women stand around. Punk uses the pole to hit an enziguiri for 2. He goes for a piledriver but Homicide reverses to a side Russian legsweep for 2. Punk hits a bodyslam for 2 as two strippers start pole dancing. They fight into the VIP lounge where Homicide hiptosses Punk onto a couch. Another clip leads us to a Punk low blow and some girl-on-girl action. They fight back to the stage where Punk shouts at the strippers for their poor life decisions. Another clip takes us back to the parking lot where Homicide hits a piledriver for the win. Homicide celebrates his win by watching strippers.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Mon, Apr 03, 2006, 22:20
CM Punk made his Wrestlemania debut last night!!!
- CM Punk was one of the gangsters in John Cena's ring entrance at WrestleMania 22 last night.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Mon, Apr 03, 2006, 22:24
and so was Cabana... as a druid for Taker lol...
1. Snitsky and Goldust defeated Chicago's own Colt Cabana & Brad James when Snitsky pinned Cabana after an suplex. Crowd was very hot for Mr. Cabana (who was on Druid Duty last night)
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Tree
ID: 2434144 Tue, Apr 04, 2006, 06:45
Cabana had the match of a lifetime against Homicide Saturday night in Chicago. just a brutal brutal thing that first saw Cabana toss 'Cide through a table that was on top of a barbed wire board, then saw him superplex his rival on about 200 chairs after the crowd filled the ring with them, ECW style...
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Tue, Apr 04, 2006, 07:53
Guess that explains why their match was after Dragon/LanceStorm.
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Great One
ID: 523121411 Wed, Apr 19, 2006, 22:39
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Great One
ID: 523121411 Wed, Apr 19, 2006, 22:43
Punk vs. Venis on Heat from a year ago I guess. This match was better than any wrestling match I have seen on RAW in months. Tree, you mentioned you were worried about Punk's size, I think he looks just fine. He is even a little taller than Venis here... I'd compare his body type to that of Edge I guess (minus the roids).
The only thing that will hold this guy back is politics.
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Great One
ID: 523121411 Thu, May 04, 2006, 00:16
CM Punk won the OVW world title tonight at the weekly taping at the Davis Arena, beating Gunner Nelson Scott (Brent Albright) in a strap match.
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Great One
ID: 11139517 Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 22:27
Alright, Mike Knox debuted on ECW... is CM Punk next?!! (he debuted in a house show Saturday beating Stevie Richards).
I would flip if he is using "the music" (AFI - Miseria Cantare) and he WAS using at the house show so there is hope.
Strange that they used that "real" music but still refuse to use Enter Sandman.
Enter the sandman would be nice, but metallica is probably giving WWE the run around or asking for a crazy amount of money per use. Me being in the music business, licensing music is a bitch and can cost any where from $100 - $???? per use. And since the sandman matches usually don't last no more than 3-5min, WWE can use the money for other promotional things for the new ECW. CM Punk was awsome tonight on ECW and I hope that the creative team really put him to good use..maybe reintroduce the TV title or some tag belts.