Was the Summer of Punk secretly orchestrated by HHH?

[Red Rain]

I always love a good conspiracy theory, but like with most of 'em, I don't buy the legitimacy of this one. Not even because it's too improbable to ever accept, but because Hunter rebutted Punk's complaints back then and claimed they were misguided by pointing out to him personally that the likes of Mick Foley, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, etc. are all former world champions and that none of them are big men either. In doing so, he was agreeing with Punk that talent is talent and should be given opportunities regardless of whether their looks are conventional or not, but was against the notion that it was even an issue like Punk was claiming it was.

Watch 2:37-3:55 below:



Unless, of course, you wanna believe that HHH was deliberately setting Punk up for that moment so that he could publicly refute his complaints in front of everyone himself, which seems to be in part an aspect of your theory, but I don't think so.

Well said. You got the gist of what I was basically attempting to get across.
Without dismissing any of your points, the perception (and i'd undeline perception if I could) at the time was that HHH was blindly defending Vince's reputation against bigotry (this was obviously before HHH himself had established himself as a booking aficionado). Punk was the hot face while HHH was the corporate puppet. The angle suggested we were to support Punk and take HHH words as Public Relations cover up for the alleged bigotry on Vince's part (though I agree HHH's argument were factually sound even at the time).

Hindsight is 20/20 and your rebuttal works for me. I indeed was implying HHH as being a nefarious character in the undertones of this storyline arc. I believe he's capable of it because...quite frankly... I could myself doing the exact same thing.

 

[Pop Tatari]

Yes HHH invented ROH, CM Punk and both summers of spunk. ipebomb:ity2: