Paul Heyman Talks About Punk...

[Red Rain]

That last line, brilliant. Do you write? that is off-topic...
But yes, I can agree with that. Thoughtful is perhaps a friendlier version of what they are/were in the wwe but either way, I can't argue against the above.

I'm no writer but I can convey an idea or concept.
It is rather surprising to find Heyman being so candid about a friend of his in a public circle.
This almost make one suggest whether Punk either told or allowed Heyman to say these things intentionally.
If so, I like it. Punk is the underdog and a profitable one at that.
Who better than Paul Heyman to assist Punk and the UFC in selling more potential PPV buys?

 

[Neptune]

I'm no writer but I can convey an idea or concept.
It is rather surprising to find Heyman being so candid about a friend of his in a public circle.
This almost make one suggest whether Punk either told or allowed Heyman to say these things intentionally.
If so, I like it. Punk is the underdog and a profitable one at that.
Who better than Paul Heyman to assist Punk and the UFC in selling more potential PPV buys?

Paul is good at what he does, always has been. No denying that. Well played to Punk if this was an arranged interview.

 

[The GOAT]

Bret was exactly the same way. He wasn't this sterling example of a man that people make him out to be... he may be now, but he definitely wasn't when he was younger. History looks at Bret Hart a lot kinder than he was.

I think a man who goes to a company and has it put into his contract that he will never lose a match to Ric Flair or Hulk Hogan (two of the most successful wrestlers of all time) can't be given the benefit of the doubt that he's not petty. Also although I thought that the Montreal Screwjob was a horrible thing to do and I'm not justifying it, Bret should have dropped the title rather than electing to surrender it. I know Vince was giving him shitty options but that's how wrestling works. You leave a company, you lose your last match.

And no one can tell me that Bret didn't know that if he left without losing the belt and surrendering it instead, Bischoff would not have gone on and on about how he had the WWF champion that no one in the WWF could beat for the belt. Even if Bret didn't want him to. we all know the kind of man Bischoff was. If Bret was truly the bigger man, he would have dropped it in a match.

So no, Bret Hart and CM Punk are peas in a pod.

Ironically, Bret being screwed means he never lost the belt in a fair and clean manner, so in a manner of speaking he technically was the "undefeated champion" when he joined WCW. Bret even said one of the many disappointing things about his run there is that they could have capitalized on putting emphasis on the fact that he was still an unofficial world champion and that they could have kept him undefeated until he met "Hollywood" Hogan for the actual WCW World Championship, which he's always felt they should have booked right away instead of Hogan vs Sting (the latter which I find delusional, but unfortunately for Bret, he just debuted in the company at the wrong time. The Hogan/Sting feud absolutely took precedence over a Hogan vs Bret feud at that time.)

 

[Green Jesus]

Punk is Bret-lite as far as bitterness go. But bret did lose a brother, so there's that.

As far as punk go in the ufc, I also think he will fall on his ass pretty early, so I am on that bandwagon. However I don't think he will get his life ruined for that, or that he will give up on ufc or whatever. He is a lot of things, but he is not a complete idiot. He knows the risks and he knows he really could(and he probably will) get his ass handed to him. I buy his "self-discipline" story, I really think he is doing it for some personal reason, nothing wrong with doing it for money and fame, but I don't think he would risk his body or his reputation over something he doesn't care for, if that was the case he would never have left the wwe in the first place.