Re: New Year's Revolution: World Title Contendership: CM Punk vs. Rhino
Rhino doesn’t make any particular emotion to the words spoken. He stands there with a completely straight face. The fans are cheering for him to assault Punk, but he doesn’t seem to take notice. He seems to be studying Punk before he speaks. He looks Punk up and down before speaking.
Rhino:
I’ll admit, my career hasn’t been what I’d like it to be. I mean of course any wrestling fan dreams of being world champion. But I’m living my dream! I’m in this ring every week doing what I love doing. To say my career is pathetic is something more of a joke than you think. You see my career isn’t pathetic. I’ve made millions of fans. I’ve had people come up to me and ask for my autograph. In some cities I’m a household name. That’s something I never dreamed of. You tell me my career is pathetic, you couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, let me tell you how pathetic your career has been. All you want is to become a world champion. You clearly don’t care about the actual sport you compete in. You don’t really care about the fans, all you care about is the money, and all you care about is the gold. And now that it’s something I truly want, I get blasted for it. I finally feel I deserve something and I have some punk telling me otherwise.
Who are you to tell me what my career is anyway? You can talk about how you worked your way up from the indy scene. You can tell everybody about how you worked in high school gyms. Which in case you haven’t noticed is pretty small compared to that bingo hall I was working in. Fact of the matter is, all you wanted was to get to the big leagues. Now that you’re there, you’ve taken everything you’ve worked so hard to achieve for granted. Meanwhile I’m doing what I love. I’m doing what I watched when I was a kid. I’ve wrestled some of my icons. I mean damn dude! I got to wrestle Sting. Not many people today can say that. You want to know what the only thing pathetic about me is. It’s the fact that I didn’t break you in half with that first gore. But there is nothing stopping me from doing that in our match. I’ll do whatever it takes to win that match. If that means I have to leave a corpse in the ring, so be it!
The crowd really gets behind Rhino after that last statement. It’s obvious they don’t like CM Punk and would really like for him to be gone from the ring.
But let me tell you something, pal! You don’t have any kind of power in this company to disrespect some of the greats. Shawn Michaels was probably one of the greatest performers to ever grace this ring and you’d be lucky enough to shine his boots. I hope you haven’t forgotten that he’s performing in UWF now. He’s truly one of the best in the world. Not your sorry ass. And the best there is! The best there was! The best there ever will be! Bret freakin’ Hart! If it wasn’t for him and Shawn, well, let’s just say there wouldn’t be you. Guys of their caliber and to a lesser extent yours wouldn’t be allowed in this business if it wasn’t for their amazing work. It sickens me that you’d brush so many people off. You’re nothing more than an idiot if you think you’re better than anybody from ECW. Chris Benoit, Eddie Guererro, Chris Jericho. Some of the greatest performers I had the privilege of mixing it up with. But you, well to be honest I feel as though I’ve pissed someone off and this is my punishment.
That’s why I find it so ironic that you talk about respect. Respect is earned! You don’t demand respect. Do you think I demand any respect from my peers? I have to earn respect just like you. What have you done exactly to earn my respect? I haven’t seen anything of note to get any kind of respect. You tell me my career is pathetic, I’m the gum that gets stuck to people’s shoes. Why the Hell would I respect a guy who shows me no respect? Don’t bother bringing up that gore thing, because honestly I meant to do it. I’ll man up to that right now and admit I intended to gore you. You clearly had no respect for anybody, especially to a good friend of mine, so I thought I’d teach you a lesson. Don’t get too worked up though, because now you have your chance to get your revenge. You’ll beat me with that good old classic wrestling. Unfortunately Punk, I’ll have to deflate that inflated ego of yours. The only way you’d have a lick of a chance at beating me is by bashing my skull in with a chair repeatedly.
I’m pissed. I’m more pissed than when I was up warring with Sting. It’s not a personal kind of anger though. It’s more of me being mad simply because I don’t like you. I don’t like anything about you. Every word you say gets me more and more angry. Unlike the Hulk though, I can only control it for a little bit before it explodes. And trust me; the beast inside me wants to just blow up. I don’t know what it is about you Punk, but I know I don’t like it. You’re a sorry excuse for a man. You think because you’re in this ring, and have a microphone you’re invincible. You think you can say whatever you like. You take yet another shot at someone who was in ECW. Why? Are you afraid we’ll all team up on you Punk? Are you afraid of an ECW uprising? No, I know what it is. You’re jealous that everybody will continue to talk about ECW long after me and all the other guys are gone. All the while you’ll be just another lost whisper in the wind.
The fans again show their support. And “ECW!†chant begins to slowly creep up out from the crowd. It soon becomes extremely loud to the point where you can hardly hear yourself think. Rhino just stands there smiling looking out towards the crowd. Punk doesn’t seem all that impressed as he is about to speak, but Rhino puts his hand up to stop him.
I’m not done yet, so shut your damn mouth and listen!
The fans erupt into one big cheer before Rhino continues.
You claim ECW is garbage, and you know what, I really don’t care what you have to say about the company that revolutionized the wrestling industry to a level that you’ll never understand. But you seem to be missing a key component to ECW. The very guy that helped you make your mark in the wrestling industry. Paul Heyman! You bash ECW, and you bash everything that man worked so damn hard for. You bash ECW, you bash every guy who came out to that ring, put their body on the line for the entertainment of the crowd. If I remember correctly, the first time you stepped into a WWE ring was on the crappy version of ECW. So in technical terms, you bash for the company you worked for. You don’t even understand what you’re talking about! You also forget there are quite a few guys here that made their names known because of ECW. If it wasn’t for ECW there would be no Bully Ray, there would have been no Chris Jericho, and quite honestly, there would have been no C...M...Punk!
Rhino smiles in a sadistic way as he lowers the microphone and stares down CM Punk.
Rhino:
I’ll admit, my career hasn’t been what I’d like it to be. I mean of course any wrestling fan dreams of being world champion. But I’m living my dream! I’m in this ring every week doing what I love doing. To say my career is pathetic is something more of a joke than you think. You see my career isn’t pathetic. I’ve made millions of fans. I’ve had people come up to me and ask for my autograph. In some cities I’m a household name. That’s something I never dreamed of. You tell me my career is pathetic, you couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, let me tell you how pathetic your career has been. All you want is to become a world champion. You clearly don’t care about the actual sport you compete in. You don’t really care about the fans, all you care about is the money, and all you care about is the gold. And now that it’s something I truly want, I get blasted for it. I finally feel I deserve something and I have some punk telling me otherwise.
Who are you to tell me what my career is anyway? You can talk about how you worked your way up from the indy scene. You can tell everybody about how you worked in high school gyms. Which in case you haven’t noticed is pretty small compared to that bingo hall I was working in. Fact of the matter is, all you wanted was to get to the big leagues. Now that you’re there, you’ve taken everything you’ve worked so hard to achieve for granted. Meanwhile I’m doing what I love. I’m doing what I watched when I was a kid. I’ve wrestled some of my icons. I mean damn dude! I got to wrestle Sting. Not many people today can say that. You want to know what the only thing pathetic about me is. It’s the fact that I didn’t break you in half with that first gore. But there is nothing stopping me from doing that in our match. I’ll do whatever it takes to win that match. If that means I have to leave a corpse in the ring, so be it!
The crowd really gets behind Rhino after that last statement. It’s obvious they don’t like CM Punk and would really like for him to be gone from the ring.
But let me tell you something, pal! You don’t have any kind of power in this company to disrespect some of the greats. Shawn Michaels was probably one of the greatest performers to ever grace this ring and you’d be lucky enough to shine his boots. I hope you haven’t forgotten that he’s performing in UWF now. He’s truly one of the best in the world. Not your sorry ass. And the best there is! The best there was! The best there ever will be! Bret freakin’ Hart! If it wasn’t for him and Shawn, well, let’s just say there wouldn’t be you. Guys of their caliber and to a lesser extent yours wouldn’t be allowed in this business if it wasn’t for their amazing work. It sickens me that you’d brush so many people off. You’re nothing more than an idiot if you think you’re better than anybody from ECW. Chris Benoit, Eddie Guererro, Chris Jericho. Some of the greatest performers I had the privilege of mixing it up with. But you, well to be honest I feel as though I’ve pissed someone off and this is my punishment.
That’s why I find it so ironic that you talk about respect. Respect is earned! You don’t demand respect. Do you think I demand any respect from my peers? I have to earn respect just like you. What have you done exactly to earn my respect? I haven’t seen anything of note to get any kind of respect. You tell me my career is pathetic, I’m the gum that gets stuck to people’s shoes. Why the Hell would I respect a guy who shows me no respect? Don’t bother bringing up that gore thing, because honestly I meant to do it. I’ll man up to that right now and admit I intended to gore you. You clearly had no respect for anybody, especially to a good friend of mine, so I thought I’d teach you a lesson. Don’t get too worked up though, because now you have your chance to get your revenge. You’ll beat me with that good old classic wrestling. Unfortunately Punk, I’ll have to deflate that inflated ego of yours. The only way you’d have a lick of a chance at beating me is by bashing my skull in with a chair repeatedly.
I’m pissed. I’m more pissed than when I was up warring with Sting. It’s not a personal kind of anger though. It’s more of me being mad simply because I don’t like you. I don’t like anything about you. Every word you say gets me more and more angry. Unlike the Hulk though, I can only control it for a little bit before it explodes. And trust me; the beast inside me wants to just blow up. I don’t know what it is about you Punk, but I know I don’t like it. You’re a sorry excuse for a man. You think because you’re in this ring, and have a microphone you’re invincible. You think you can say whatever you like. You take yet another shot at someone who was in ECW. Why? Are you afraid we’ll all team up on you Punk? Are you afraid of an ECW uprising? No, I know what it is. You’re jealous that everybody will continue to talk about ECW long after me and all the other guys are gone. All the while you’ll be just another lost whisper in the wind.
The fans again show their support. And “ECW!†chant begins to slowly creep up out from the crowd. It soon becomes extremely loud to the point where you can hardly hear yourself think. Rhino just stands there smiling looking out towards the crowd. Punk doesn’t seem all that impressed as he is about to speak, but Rhino puts his hand up to stop him.
I’m not done yet, so shut your damn mouth and listen!
The fans erupt into one big cheer before Rhino continues.
You claim ECW is garbage, and you know what, I really don’t care what you have to say about the company that revolutionized the wrestling industry to a level that you’ll never understand. But you seem to be missing a key component to ECW. The very guy that helped you make your mark in the wrestling industry. Paul Heyman! You bash ECW, and you bash everything that man worked so damn hard for. You bash ECW, you bash every guy who came out to that ring, put their body on the line for the entertainment of the crowd. If I remember correctly, the first time you stepped into a WWE ring was on the crappy version of ECW. So in technical terms, you bash for the company you worked for. You don’t even understand what you’re talking about! You also forget there are quite a few guys here that made their names known because of ECW. If it wasn’t for ECW there would be no Bully Ray, there would have been no Chris Jericho, and quite honestly, there would have been no C...M...Punk!
Rhino smiles in a sadistic way as he lowers the microphone and stares down CM Punk.