Tag: Ed’s Perspective

Ed’s Perspective: Thoughts On Various Topics; Looking Forward to Turning Point

  • TNA:  As I normally leave posts on TNA to our two resident experts – Trevor and John, I thought I would mention that I’m looking forward to tonight’s Turning Point PPV. I can’t wait to see Jeff Hardy defend his title in a ladder match. You know there are going to be some nasty bumps in this one!
  • WWE: This is Ed the fan speaking – the best thing the WWE could do right now is make RAW a two-hour show again. Oh yes, there are plenty of other things I could suggest, but for me personally 3 hours of RAW every week is too much. Maybe I’ll throw up a poll asking what your opinion on this is, but all the different WWE programming on each and every week plus a PPV every month – JUST GIVE ME TWO AWESOME HOURS OF RAW!
  • HPW: What an awesome show Jerry Wilson and Hoosier Pro Wrestling put on last week in Columbus, IN. It is fun to have the big name stars come to town, but I want to give a huge shout out to the regular roster of HPW stars who give it their all, each and every month. And to my friend Jerry Wilson – you do an amazing job of providing us with the very best in Indy Wrasslin’ .
  • New Era Wrestling: Excited about heading back to Shelbyville, IN to cover New Era Wrestling for the second time. I am so getting into the Indy Promotions and the love getting to know the men and women behind the scenes. I know I’m going to see another good show.
  • DTRT Wrestling News Radio: Trevor and I are kicking around the idea of doing two 30 minute shows each week and adding a co-host. We’ll have an announcement soon in regards to this. We would love to have our listeners share our broadcast info with their friends. You don’t have to listen live, every episode is archived and can be downloaded any time at this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dtrtwrestlingnews
  • And finally a special shout out to the crew here at DTRT Wrestling News: You 3 are awesome! Trevor, my partner in this endeavor, works so hard behind the scenes that I could never say enough positives about him and the fantastic work he does. John, you do great work with the recaps each week. I’m looking forward to bigger and better things from you in the future – I know you have it in you! And finally to Vanessa, our newest contributor – what a breath of fresh air you are to our site. You keep on doing what you do – and that is writing entertaining, insightful  material from your own perspective. You are a great addition to the DTRT Wrestling News Staff

Ed Boston

Co-Founder; DTRT Wrestling News

Ed’s Perspective: Punk Is A Coward Part 2

If you missed it, last week after CM Punk kicked Jerry “The King” Lawler in the head, I wrote Ed’s Perspective: Punk Is A Coward . Well after watching the way RAW ended last night I have to write Part 2.

I make no bones about it. I’m a huge Lawler fan! I don’t apologize, I’m a wrestling fan first and foremost.

I am also sure that Lawler agreed to what went on during the main event and after the cage match between Lawler and Punk. But here are a few questions for all those who think what Punk is doing to Lawler is cool.

  • Why doesn’t Punk tell creative that he wants to do something sinister to, let’s say Kane? Or Broadus Clay? Or prove he’s really a man and take out Ryback?
  • Given that Lawler is probably more than willing to help put over Punk in his new “heel” role, why doesn’t creative say no thank you?

My partner here at DTRT Wrestling News, Trevor,  sent me this text after the show last night.

That ending to Raw was tough to watch – didn’t enjoy it – it looked like a young punk beating an old man. He  followed that text up with,  “If I was head of creative, I would have said thank you Mr. Lawler but going to decline” if Lawler really did agree to help put Punk over.

 

And that’s exactly what it was!  Lawler, 62,  was born on November 29, 1949. Punk is 33 born on October 26, 1978 . Lawler is nearly twice as old as Punk. How does it make WWE look to have their champion be nothing better than a street thug who takes advantage of old people.

I know those who want to move from the PG rating love this, but Trevor and I agree – this is not good and not enjoyable.

  • What does beating down a 62 year old retired wrestler do to get respect? Ok, I know this is scripted – I know they all realize what’s going to happen before they do it. I know that the more Punk demands respect and beats up an old guy that it’s all meant to make us hate CM Punk. I get it already! Lawler is at his best at this point in his career doing commentary. Let him do what he does best – and believe me, he can put Punk over as a heel just as good from the announce table as he can laying flat in the ring.

Now, had Raw ended with the end of the match – there would have been no need for Part 2 of this post. I enjoyed seeing Lawler pull down the strap. And for all the Punk pushers – I wonder how they feel about him getting bloodied by a man that will soon  qualify for Social Security?

So here’s the bottom line, so that I don’t have to write Part 3. It’s Punk vs Cena at Night of Champions. Let Punk do what he’s been doing to Lawler to Cena. Let him attack him backstage. Let GM AJ Lee either suspend or threaten to suspend him and watch him go postal on her (she might kick his ass though). But drop the Punk vs Lawler physical confrontations, unless of course you really want to go old school and let Lawler throw a fireball in Punk’s face – now that would even up the age difference a little.

Ed’s Perspective: Punk Is A Coward

 

That was my original thought and comment last night and it’s still my thought today, and I’ve added the “Punk is a coward” from the headline to my original thought. I find it interesting that just as I was posting that tweet on our@DTRTWrestling twitter account, I got the following text from my partner, Trevor.

Think you should post something tomorrow talking about punks disrespect for a legend

I get that Punk is trying to make us all believe that he is a heel, and again to quote Trevor in a separate text “CM Punk is officially heel”.

Yep, I could tell that Punk was having a difficult time with the heel turn, but he’s all in now. Regardless of whether he was following orders or came up with it on his own, Punk “used” a retired legend and member of the WWE Hall of Fame to get his change over.

He had his chance to face John Cena, face-to-face, man-to-man -but no, he chose to be a coward.

Punk had just been schooled by Cena, and Punk took it out on “The King”.

 

I thought Lawler went above what was needed when he apologized to Punk for saying that Punk had turned his back on the WWE Universe. When Lawler wouldn’t, and shouldn’t have, said that Punk was the best in the world – well you can see what happened by clicking here.

I grew up watching Jerry “The King” Lawler or “Kingfish” as Jimmy “The Boogie Woogie Man” Valiant used to call him. He has been a great Ambassador for Professional Wrestling, both inside and outside of the ring. His work at the announce table has helped many people, including CM Punk, get their character over. Lawler literally carried Punk the night after Punk turn against the WWE Universe. As I said in the tweet at the very beginning, Punk couldn’t carry Lawler’s jock strap in Lawler’s prime, and obviously even now on the mic.

My late father, who started me watching Lawler, taught me most everything I know about the word “respect”. He taught me exactly what Tyson Kidd @KiddWWE said in this tweet:

And with that I repeat the headline: PUNK IS A COWARD!