A Little AEW Music with Your SmackDown Fallout...

Happy Friday, Enthusiasts!

 

This is the most disagreeable heat I have ever experienced in my life to date. Not only is it really hot but even the rain we’re getting isn’t helping. The climate she is a changing. Well, this time around, the wrestling world serves as a welcome distraction. Let’s get into this CM Punk business and put it to bed once and for all.

 

So, what’s going on with this guy? Is this Punk business a misfired work or proof of the truth that’s always lied beneath? It’s hard to say but the consensus is coming to the conclusion that this was at the very least “premeditated”. From what I’m hearing, Tony Khan knew Punk had some sort of bee in his bonnet just didn’t know how big or what kind.

 

Let’s break it down into its bare parts. What gets me about the whole thing is the timing of it. CM Punk unloads after their All Out PPV, that he wins. Has a “fight” backstage with people he’s known to “dislike” and then in the melee supposedly suffered an injury that takes him out of the picture anyway. All the while there’s an “investigation” in the works to determine who’s really at fault and we can assume after those results are received “punishments” will be handed down.

 

With that information, I can’t help but think it’s a work that didn’t land. I watched most of that media scrum and Punk was more or less in character the entire time. He was using his own and other’s given names at times but he held to what he’s been saying in the ring and generally in public. Personally, I believe this was an attempt to innovate that fans and onlookers took too seriously.

 

10-15 years ago, this would have been a juicy story that we would wonder how it would be solved in the ring or if this was some real shit that went down we all just witnessed. We would have been buzzing! Nowadays, with general conversations about mental health becoming normalized, we’re generally led to believe and think that real disagreements are not solved with violence or passive-aggressiveness or what have you. So, when Punk decided to “unload” it was not received as “OMG he’s spilling the beans…” but as “Why is he having this discussion here?...” If he really has a grievance, shouldn’t he do the respectable thing and hash it out privately? In this case, this may be more a sign that Punk is simply getting old not so much lost the plot. What sparked excitement in his day is now frowned upon. He at least has the “out” with the backstage fight to either lay low until he “heals” and/or publicly makes amends.

 

If this is a work, in this downtime how to turn this into a plus should be devised and I would think it could result in some sort of public showdown to lay it all to rest. Yet, given how the fans haven’t appreciated the drama, Punk may have to issue some sort of “apology” for his actions.

 

That’s the “work” scenario. So, what if this is all real? Then I think the question of mental health does become valid. Could Punk be walking around undiagnosed as bipolar or depressed? I don’t think it’s too farfetched. That outcome is also simpler to address because then it’s all a matter of getting him help. The only hitch there could be Punk’s willingness. He comes off like he wouldn’t believe in “therapy”. I could hear him going into another diatribe about how he’s gonna pay some hack a bunch of money to tell him about the problems he already knows he has. And with no real idea of what Punk’s life is like, how could this overpaid wise Aunt/Uncle-for-hire tell him anything he doesn’t already know? I can see the scoff and dismissal. Thing about getting help is that the party involved has to want it. I get the feeling Punk likes to stew in his juice.

 

Nevertheless, if it is real beef in effect here, then the name of the game is maturity. Punk himself spoke of how a lot of his grievances come from people acting like children. How is he any different by causing a big fuss and storming off? Granted, it’s par for his course but if he wants any sort of atonement, he’ll have to admit where he was wrong and at the very least endeavor to do better. Otherwise, they might as well try to turn it into a work so they can at least get some action out of it and maybe recoup any potential losses.

 

Yet, to close on the matter, if this is all an ill-thought-out work, then my conjecture of Punk being a WWE Plant comes back to life. If the fallout causes the AEW Realm to sour on Punk, then I think it just makes sense for him to return to WWE. The mission is aborted. AEW can fabricate an overblown “firing” and Punk can “go sulk” for “X” amount of time only to return where he’s always belonged, back at WWE. True, he has his beef there, but the primary “issue” has retired so Triple H would have to deal with him. And like I’ve said before, H doesn’t have to like it either. It’s probably better that he doesn’t. Now, some real fun can begin 😉

 

And so, that brings us to tonight’s SmackDown. Drew McIntyre will have some words for the Other Uso, Solo Sikoa and Braun Strowman will stomp around. Kinda miss that. Everything else you’ll have to tune in for as they wrap up the Fallout for Clash at the Castle. Funny tweets and Likes get retweeted. Go ahead and take a shot at it. There are some good ones out there with all the drama.

 

See You in a Bit,

-Nicole Alexis (^_~)