WWE.com has added three digitals of CM Punk throwing out the first pitch at last Friday’s Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field.
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CM Punk and Colt Cabana were on The Abe Kanan Show earlier today. Abe posted a photo of himself with the guys. Click below to view. If you missed the show, you can catch the replay tomorrow at 2 P.M. EST on SiriusXM "Howard 101".
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Returning from his suspension, CM Punk wasted no time in causing controversy by insulting Mr. McMahon, John Cena and the WWE Universe before promising to walk out of Money in the Bank with the WWE Title and never return.
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It is expected that CM Punk will be leaving the WWE after this Sunday’s PPV in Chicago. I see no signs that MITB and @CMPunk vs. @JohnCena won’t be Punk’s last match in WWE at least for the foreseeable future. I am extremely intrigued on how this matter will play out Sunday on what seems to be one of the most talked about PPV’s of the year. Without question, expectations for Cena vs. Punk are extraordinarily high.
It’s not often when a star leaves a company literally ‘white hot’ but Punk is a unique guy who seems to have his mind made up that Sunday is it…..for now.
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CM Punk was on Chicago’s B96 yesterday morning promoting the Money in the Bank pay-per-view. He said this would be his last match and he would then enjoy sitting on his couch. He joked that that he would be getting hit by cabs while riding his bike. He also said he’s a fan of Natalie Portman and would fight John Stamos.
Sources: wrestlinginc.com & b96.radio.com
CM Punk and Colt Cabana briefly reunited on the latest episode of Art of Wrestling Radio, which features an interview with Ring of Honor performer Chris Hero.
Punk appears early in the podcast to discuss his “little match on Sunday.” When asked if people should order the pay-per-view, Punk replied, “Yeah, they should. I get paid more that way.”
The interview is available at WeLoveColt.com.
Source: wrestlinginc.com
In the wrong hands, professional wrestling can be a boring thing indeed, a rinse-and-repeat cycle of predictable storytelling and zero-stakes feuds. For a few years now, World Wrestling Entertainment has spent much of its time in a lamentable rut, focusing much of its attention on central figure John Cena and his kid-friendly potty humor and square-jawed heroics. But over the past month or so, that’s been changing. Cena has a new foe: C.M. Punk, a tatted-up, fire-eyed, uncommonly erudite bad guy who thinks, and sometimes acts, like a good guy. But there’s a catch to that feud. It won’t last long, since Punk doesn’t expect to be in the company a week from now.
C.M. Punk is a wrestling veteran, a guy who kicked around the small-time independent scene for years before finally linking up with the WWE. Within the company, he’s had an impressive run: Three world championships, a few memorable speeches, a string of wonderful matches. But he’s never been the focal point of the company, despite being arguably its most gifted in-ring storyteller, and that’s always eaten at him. So, about a month ago, he announced on live TV that his contract was about to be up and that he would wrestle John Cena for the WWE title the night before leaving the company. That match would go down at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view event, which comes to Chicago’s Allstate Arena on Sunday night.
Gangster’s paradise
By: Craig Tello | July 14, 2011
If there are storybook endings in WWE, then CM Punk’s is one of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
This Sunday at Money in the Bank, the controversy-culling Straight Edge Superstar’s final night in WWE will fulfill a cyclical career that began under parallel circumstances five years ago – ironically, in the same arena with his most despised adversary, John Cena.
A relatively unrecognized performer in the WWE locker room, proud Chicagoan CM Punk made his very first WWE appearance in his hometown at WrestleMania 22 toting a tommy gun and a smug smirk beneath the brim of a tilted hat. Clasping onto the side door of a 1940s streetcar, the zoot-suited soon-to-be-Superstar rode into the Allstate Arena among a small mob of “gangsters” heralding the entrance of reigning WWE Champion Cena.
Live on pay-per-view, The Champ defended the same WWE Title he currently wears against Triple H. Clashing with multiple-time World Champion The Game, Cena was the distinct underdog – a role which, as Punk boldly stated this past Monday, the out-of-touch Champ can no longer claim.
On April 2, 2006, Cena was victorious and celebrated in front of a sold-out crowd in Chicago – Punk’s crowd (if you were to ask him) – while The Second City Savior passed through the backstage halls of the Allstate Arena, unnoticed and in search of an exit. Mere months before his debut on ECW, the tattooed warrior got close to the grand stage, perhaps fully confident that he’d one day take that stage for his own … quite possibly against Cena.
Years after his Al Capone-inspired first appearance, CM Punk returns to this meaningful setting to not just usurp John Cena but also disgrace WWE by seizing its richest prize and purest symbol of a decades-long squared circle legacy.
The world will undoubtedly be watching the highly anticipated showdown with colossal implications on all those involved – Cena, CM Punk, Mr. McMahon – as well as the entire WWE Universe. Will Punk make his Second City paradise the grounds for his ultimate moment? Can The Champ retain the WWE Title and the integrity of its lineage by keeping it in WWE? Tune in live to Money in the Bank this Sunday at 8/5 PT, only on pay-per-view.
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John Cena not only expects anti-Cena crowd in Chicago — he wants it
July 12, 2011 | By Luis Gomez
John Cena loves Chicago — even if the feeling isn’t exactly mutual.
The eight-time WWE Champion and two-time World Heavyweight Champion made his debut at the Allstate Arena in 2002 and headlined Wrestlemania in the same venue four years later. In his opinion, Chicago has one of the three best wrestling crowds in the country along with New York and Philadelphia.
But the Chicago area is also where Cena — the face of WWE and this generation’s Hulk Hogan — was cursed out by the crowd in 2006 as he inducted former Bears star and Wrestlemania 2 participant William “Refrigerator” Perry into the WWE Hall of Fame at the Rosemont Theatre.
“Chicago fans greeted me with a ‘(Expletive) you, Cena’ chant,” Cena said recently over the phone from Sydney, Australia, where WWE was touring at the time. “Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They’re great fans whether they like me or not. They show you how they feel. I don’t like crowds that sit on their hands.”
