CM Punk and His Cult of Personality

This is the anniversary of CM Punk’s arrival in the WWE and I want to make a few observations on The Second City Saint.

I normally am a toe the line, do as you are told kind of person. I am a US Army veteran and it is ingrained in me that you do as your superiors say. You can ask my partner Trevor, when we were watching Total Divas this past Sunday and Eva Marie decided not to do as she was told about dying her hair blond and then made the bold move to bright red, my text to Trevor was that she should have been fired.

That said, Punk and his no holds barred way of letting his true feelings come through when he does a promo is really starting to grow on me. He is the real deal in an industry that all who know anything about the business know is scripted down to the smallest details.

When you watch the video of his infamous  “shoot” promo where they had to cut the audio on his mic, you must wonder how the WWE ever decided to give him a mic again. I’ll tell you why – he’s the best in the world right now with a mic.

Now I’ve never been a huge Punk fan – no I’m not a Punk mark! But my respect for him continues to grow all the time. You can look back here on our site and I thought that when Punk turned heel that he did a horrible job, looked uncomfortable, and was not going to work in the heel persona.

Well did I ever get that wrong. Every week he got just a little better and in no time his heel promo’s were as good as they had ever been. He really rises above the “face”/”heel” label.

He is CM Punk!

And that’s a good thing for us wrestling fans – enjoy the video’s, they are worth the time.