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Part 4

 

Punk said that he discovered a lump on his back that wasn't there the previous week and went to "Doc" [Note from Mike: I believe he means Dr. Amann] asking what it was.  Punk said he was told it was, "like a fatty deposit."    Punk said that," That's fine but it wasn't there last week."  Punk said there's a fascination within the WWE locker room of cutting things open and filming it with everyone watching and said, "Benoit used to pop dude's zits."  He said that anyone who has ever been in the locker room knows what he is talking about and said he wanted it cut out. WWE's medical tells Punk it's a calcium deposit so they are going to leave it.  Punk says the lump gets bigger a few months later and goes back to the WWE doctor, who asks him if it hurts.  Punk says that it doesn't.  The Doc says they are going to leave it. Punk said, "Let me ask you something doc?  Is that your medical opinion or are you just a lazy piece of ■■■■ because I've seen you cut a million of these things out of somebody."  The Doc responded that Punk needed to wrestle and he might need a stitch after.  Punk said that the same doc put 14 staples in his forehead and Punk wrestled the same night, "So what's the difference?" Cabana asked if Punk had a theory as to what it was.  Punk said, "No, but it wasn't here yesterday.  Cut it out and get it gone."  Cabana explained that what he meant was why Punk thought the WWE doctor didn't do anything.  Punk said, "Lazy."

 

Punk said he had broken ribs and a concussion and they are giving him a Z-Pack because he feels like hell.  Punk takes rhe medication and can't sleep.  They give him stronger meds and he's worried he's going to poop himself again in the ring and that Vince McMahon was going to make that Punk's new gimmick.  "Get all white tights..."

 

Punk said that the 2014 Royal Rumble season was coming and Batista was coming in to be in the main event but he was still motivated to have a great showing and make them change their minds about the Wrestlemania main event.  He references watching the Mick Foley documentary and how Vince brought Mick out of retirement to have his Wrestlemania moment (Wrestlemania 2000, where he worked the Four Way) because "Foley never had one before he left."  Punk said he watched that documentary and thought, "Well, motherf***er.  I'm still here.  I'm not retired yet."

 

Punk said at the Rumble, he knew he was going to have a great showing and would show them that Randy Orton vs. Batista was going to be a "big stinker of a main event at Wrestlemania."

 

The day of the 2014 Royal Rumble, Punk said he showed the WWE Doctor the aforementioned lump on his back, which he described as huge and purple.  "With teeth!", Cabana added.  Punk was asked if it hurt and he said, "It hurt like a motherf***er" and to make it worse, it was right where his tights ran across his back, so now it couldn't be ignored as that position meant pain and a constabr reminder it was there.    Punk said that it wasn't like can pop it because it's not like a zit. The doc said that he would cut it out but Punk has to work The Rumble and, "He would want to put Punk on some antibiotics" before he did it.  Punk commented, "Motherf***er, I've been on antibiotics since November.  What are you doing?  Just cut it right now" but the Doc wouldn't work on it.

 

Punk said he had to start the Rumble and work all the way to the end [He did close to an hour that night].  Down the line, he was looking at Kane, who he loved working, but he wanted to do something new.  Punk said he was going to every single guy before the match and giving them something to do to him.  He told a story of Rusev just wanting to come in and stomp him and Punk trying to tell him that no one is going to help him and they all want his spot, so he needs to debut with a big moment and pushed him to make it count and do something big to Punk.

 

Punk said he and Kofi Kingston sert up a spot with Kofi for when Kofi hit the ring and did his somersault into the leaping clothesline and that's where Punk got the concussion, which he made a point to tell Kofi, "If you are listening, I love you and it's OK." Punk said he was rocked after and goes to the corner and tells the Doc, "I have a concussion."  The doc said, "What do you want me to do?"  Punk cursed at him and said he was going to catch his breath and continue.  At some point, they sent Kane out early to put Punk through the table early and get him out and his reaction, after 15 years of being a pro wrestler is, "F*** you, I'm finishing this match.  If Kane touches me, I'll f***ing quit." 

 

They noted at how this sort of left Kane waiting around ringside trying not to be in the camera and while laughing about it, Punk said that he felt bad about that.  Eventually, they do the angle and Punk is chokeslammed through a table, which means he took that bump after knowing and telling WWE he was concussed..

 

Punk said he went right to the back and the Doc checked on him.  Punk said he immediately told him to cut the thing out his back right now.  The Doc refused to cut it out, saying Punk was hurting from the concussion.

 

That night, he went to the next town and was laying in bed in the hotel,  saying he knew he was "going to marry this woman' [AJ Lee, now his wife] but he hadn't asked her yet and wondered what he was doing with his life at this point.

 

Punk then talked about the Raw the day after The Rumble.  He said that he went and was belligerent about taking the concussion test and was argumentative.  He was told he had to take a ■■■■ test and that set him off, because they had amended the Wellness Policy so guys could work to remove their strikes to keep their jobs and, "keep using drugs."

 

Punk said he was getting mixed signals and stories as to whether he was working Raw that night or not and what he was doing and said, "I f***ing had it."  Punk said he hated telling people to "f*** off" but he was at the breaking point. Punk said that he was telling the company to take care of him right now and not worry about asking him to sign visas for future tours and take a ■■■■ test.  He said that his ribs were broken, his knees are shot and he's hurt.  He was saying, "F***ing help me!" and the reaction was that Punk had to do all these things they were asking him to do and not any concern about him when something was obviously wrong.

 

That's when he decided to go to Vince McMahon's office...

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Part 5

 

Punk said he went to see Vince and Triple H offered to leave them alone.  Punk told him to stay because he needed to stay and hear what Punk had to say as well. Punk stated that he told McMahon that he doesn't love "this anymore" and that he was, "hurt, sick and confused."  He told Vince that he doesn't know what they are doing as a business anymore.  He said that Vince says it's a team effort, but it's an individual effort by Punk to find what's necessary to even come here [to work]. Punk said he was concussed and hurt and all Vince cared about is what segment Punk is in, how soon he can put his tights on and when he can go pee in this cup and, "I don't want to do it anymore." Punk said that he spoke openly about bringing back Dave Bautista as a babyface and asked how they could not see what a bad idea that was.  Punk said that Baustista visited him at home in Chicago recently and they talked about all of this and Bautista agreed, with Punk warning the websites not to try and stir trouble between the two.  He said he is friends with Bautista and is just giving a recanting of what happened. Triple H told him, "Dave just took the ■■■■ test" to which Punk replied, "Did you?" and "He had nothing to say."

 

Punk said that when he signed his deal with WWE [Money in the Bank 2011] that he told Vince McMahon that if he didn't live up to what he said he could be for the company, that if he was a fraud and didn't deliver. that Vince should fire him. 

 

Punk said that he sold more shirts than John Cena until he was asked to turn heel and Vince said he owed him one.  He worked with "guys who were dangerous" and Vince said he owed him one and all Punk wanted was the main event of Wrestlemania.  Punk said that if Vince doesn't see him at that level, then he needs to fire Punk because then he will "go somewhere else and I will get more f***ing over because I know I can."  Punk said he told Vince that he had shackled Punk and creatively stifled him and he no longer wanted to be there.

 

Punk then told Vince McMahon that he doesn't understand how Daniel Bryan wasn't figuring into Vince's main event plans for Wrestlemania because "he is white hot" just like two years ago when Punk was and Vince didn't go with Punk then.  [Note from Mike Johnson: At the time this took place,. Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan was set to be fifth from the top at Wrestlemania 30.]  Punk told Vince said instead, "You fed me to this guy" and pointed to Hunter. Vince said this, "was the concussion talking"  and Punk was indeed working a main event at Wrestlemania 30, because, "You're wrestling Triple H."

 

Punk said he turned to Triple H and politely said, "All due respect, I do not need wrestle you.  You need to wrestle me.  I do not want to wrestle you.  I seriously resent you for not putting me over three years ago when you should have.  That would have been best for business but you had to f***ing come in and squash it.  Then, I had to lose to f***ing Truth and Miz.  Like, it didn't make any business sense then and it doesn't make any business sense now and I'm in a position now where I can tell you that I don't have to nor do I want to wrestle you at Wrestlemania." Punk said he didn't care if he was supposed to win, which he was.  "I didn't want to give him the f***ing privilege."

 

Punk said that HHH was gritting his teeth and never liked Punk.  He said it was one of those situations where you hear stories in the dirt-sheets how Hunter says this about Punk and all that but when he and Hunter were in a room alone together, "Never any good vibes.  Always negative.    The way he would look sideways at me.  The way he looked at me.  For instance, a simple courtesy call - 'Hey, that is the European tour.  You can't do the movie.  We've going to have Randy do it.' - but he thought he didn't have to do that, because I was a piece of sh**."

 

Cabana pointed out that when Punk was super-hot in 2011, HHH came out of retirement and beat him and then went back into retirement.

 

Punk said that Hunter said that Punk WAS in the main event of Wrestlemania last year, vs. Undertaker, and that he had the best match.  Punk said, "I'm not f***ing stupid.  The main event is the last match."  He said WWE promotes it as a bunch of main events but everyone knows what the true main event is, the final match.  Punk said that he deserved it then and at that point [January 2014] Daniel Bryan deserved it and he told Vince and Triple H,  "You are just going to give it to Bautista and Randy?"

 

Punk asked that when you look at the guys on the WWE roster, to ho and see how many were actually in the main event of Wrestlemania.  Punk explained that he needed to go be in that position and work with people at the same or better level so he could be a better asset to the product and draw more.  He said that NHL players have to play with other NHL players to get better and he needed to work at that top level so he could improve. 

 

Punk said he was told he wasn't a draw, but would ask them, "How do you know?"  He said whenever he was given the ball, he tossed it, caught it and then shoved it down their throats but at the end of the day "It was an old, out of touch man's decision." 

 

Punk said that WWE changed it's plans when he walked and he was "so f***ing stoked" that Daniel Bryan got to have that main event at Wrestlemania.

 

Going back to the conversation with Vince McMahon and Triple H, Punk said that Hunter tried to tell him that he was in the main against Undertaker to which Punk replied, "Tell me I got the same amount of money as you, Brock, Cena, Rock, whoever" and, "Once again, he had nothing to say."

 

Vince stood up with tears in his eyes.  Punk offered his hand and Vince hugged him and Punk lightly patted him on the back.  Hunter offered his hand and Punk shook his hand and said, "Goodbye" and walked out.  That was the last time he's seen either.

 

Punk then laughed and said, "Now, this is where the story starts to get really good."

 

Punk said that a week after he left, Vince texted him and asked him how he was feeling and whether he was ready to come back to work.  So, Vince McMahon didn't understand that Punk was really done.  Punk told him, "No."

 

Punk said he was mentally shot and still wasn't sleeping and was still sick.  Finally, his fiancé [Mike: Now wife, AJ Lee] convinced him to go see her doctor in Florida, who he described as looking like Patrick Bateman from "American Psycho" with white hair.  The doctor he had never seen Punk before and had no background information on him. He walked into the room and had no idea who Punk was.  The doctor asked Punk what the problem was.  Punk pulls down his shorts and showed him the purple lump on his back.  The guy turns his head sideways, looks at Punk and says, "That's a full blown staph infection."  Punk then said he was told it was likely MRSA , an extremely dangerous strain of the infection which can be resilient to medications. Punk said he laughed the same way he did when a doctor told him he had cracked his skull while working an independent in New Jersey years ago. He performed this insane, "Of course I do" laugh. Punk asked the doctor was he was going to do.    The doctor said that he could cut it out, but Punk would have to go to get an IV drip and be in the hospital for a week.  Punk asked him what they could do if Punk didn't have time for that.  Right there in his office, the guy cut it and squeezed it and "sh** shot to the ceiling."

 

Punk said he's had tattoos in some of the most painful places on his body, he's fractured his skull, has had Ryback break his ribs kicking him and he wrestled three weeks after knee surgery in a TLC match, but the medical procedure was the most painful experience of his entire life. Punk said, "I don't know why it hurt so bad.",  but he was sweating like he was in the Sahara desert and clutching the table.  Punk said the doctor squeezed and squeezed and squeezed, then patched him up and gave him three months of antibiotics.  Punk told the doctor that he had been on antibiotics for a long time but it didn't help. The Doctor said that unless they were specific drugs for a MRSA infection, it wasn't going to do anything. When the doctor asked him how long he had been dealing with this and Punk said a few months.  The doctor told him, "You should be dead."

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So ummmm, CM Punk just signed with UFC.

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That will really tick vince off. He constantly says. UFC arent competition, but they are.

Be interesting to see how Punk does.

Put him and HHH in a cage under UFC rules, i would pay very good coin to see that. I reckon Punk would beat him.

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Part 6 [Final Part]

 

The conversation between CM Punk and Colt Cabana picks up after Punk had the medical procedure done to remove his staph infection and is now on three months' worth of antibiotics,  Punk said that now he could suddenly sleep and he slept for a long, long,.long time.   

 

Out of nowhere, Vince McMahon texted him and wrote that he wishes Punk could have lasted to the end of his contract, but Punk is now suspended.  He said that Punk was suspended for two months.  Punk said that suspension took him to the day after Wrestlemania 30.  Punk said, "Well, I don't care about wrestling, so whatever." The day after Wrestlemania 30 comes and nobody reaches out to Punk or tells him anything. Punk said he had to listen to Vince on an investor call say that Punk was on a sabbatical.  Punk said, "Huh? Why wouldn't he announce to his investors that I'm suspended?"

 

Punk notes about this time, he doesn't receive his royalty check.  Punk says he has "some wonky sh** going on with the mail" so he just assumes it's late.  Another week goes by and he doesn't hear anything.

 

Punk then tells a story about being in his basement cleaning out of some tubs that were on his bus and realizes he has a big check from the previous year that was for a lot money that he forgot to cash [Mike: I've heard lots of stories like that from guys who worked in the 1980s] so Punk said, "Well, now what do I do?" So, he calls them and asks them to reissue the check [new year means the old check is no longer valid] and to tell them he hasn't received his royalty check and asks them to re-send it. Punk said he called the name of the guy who's name is on the check.  He said the guy's teeth were chattering when he started speaking to Punk.  When Punk asked him about the royalty check, he was told it was on the desk of "C. Scott Amann, who is their lawyer." Punk asked why, since no one had contacted him.  Punk asked to speak to him and called both Tom and the lawyer daily, but they weren't picking up the phone, responding to messages and nothing was being sent to him.

 

Punk said, "What are we, stalemating until the contract is up?" He said that at that point, he was leaving a "sh**load" of money on the table, "but that was fine, I didn't care." Punk said he was happy and not stressed and no one was slinging mud.  Punk said that perhaps they are just two ships passing in the sea and Punk said they can keep the money because that's how much his happiness and health was worth to him.

 

Then, Punk started receiving butt-dialed phone calls and blank texts from different WWE executives, including one from Jane Geddes where he could hear her talking to Mark Carano in the background. So, he called Geddes back and  left a voicemail, saying he was assuming she was calling about the money he had asked about. He said he was being overly polite and doesn't hear back. She finally texts a week later and said she didn't mean to call him and will look into those checks. Geddes never gets back to him.

 

Punk said that at this point, he's talking to the department he's supposed to speak to, Talent Relations and isn't hearing back anything.  He notes at the same time, "All hell is breaking loose" as he's getting married, planning a honeymoon and the Chicago Blackhawks are in the Playoffs, so he doesn't worry about the money and sets about getting ready for everything else in his life.

 

Punk said that two days before his wedding, he gets a text from Triple H out of nowhere.  He asks if Punk has time to talk.  Punk said it's the 11th of June at this point and he's a little ■■■■■■ off.  Punk told Triple H that he  "was reasonable" and wrote back, "I've always had time to talk and I've been here but I'm getting married in two days and will be leaving for my honeymoon.  I will call you the second I am back.  In the meantime, re-issue me that royalty check that I've been asking about for two months.  That is reasonable and then I will call you when I get back." Punk said that Triple H didn't respond to the text and the day of his wedding, he received a Fed-ex informing him that he was terminated from WWE.  He said, "Take that, everyone who says I'm a quieter", making fun of how some fan on Twitter once said that to him with a misspelling.   Punk said, "I was fired.  On my wedding day.  Very calculating.  Very deliberate." Punk said as much as he chuckled at it and didn't let it ruin his day, he felt, "Once again, you pushed too f***ing far.  You pushed the wrong guy."

 

Cabana said it should be known, "You were fired on your wedding day." Punk said that Vince had tears in his eyes and wanted to hug him goodbye and said that Punk was "family" and then they fire him on his wedding day.

 

Punk said the letter from WWE was tremendous and claimed Punk was fired and that he was in Breach of Contract as of 1/27/14 [Note from Mike: The day he walked out] and that he wasn't going to be receiving any of his royalties. Punk said he wasn't even a lawyer and he knew that "you can't claim Retro-Breach." Punk said that if he was in breach of contract then, they needed to tell him on January 28th and he would have been fine with that since he had to go home and treat the staph infection they refused to diagnose and treat, plus the concussion and he's needed to go home for at least a year. Punk also said there was a breach of contract no-compete naming Ultimate Fighting Championships to which Punk commented,  "...But they aren't competition, but in mine and Del Rio's breach letters, they were named, but they aren't our competition. Why would they be?" Punk said he called a vicious lawyer from Los Angeles in the 15 minutes he had to spare.  Punk told him the entire story and said, "I will call you when I get back" and the lawyer said, "Great.  Let's get those motherf****ers." Punk said, "And, we got those motherf***ers."

 

Punk said the only thing he isn't allowed to talk about was the terms of the Settlement, but he doesn't think it's wrong for him to say that he got everything he wanted "and then some."

 

On the WWE 2K15 videogame, Punk said it was, "Dumb of them to advertise me for the videogame." He said 2K Sports Tweeted at him asking, "Do I have your attention now?" Punk said, "Well, 2K Sports, do I have your attention now? Thanks for the big fat f***ing check."

 

Cabana asked if there was a complete split. Punk said it took awhile. They wanted to issue a joint statement and Punk told them No. He said that they wanted something that they agreed not to disparage the other. Punk said, via his lawyer, that they were the ones that walked into his hometown on Raw and said he was a quitter [Note from Mike: Stephanie McMahon said that in a promo in response to hometown fans chanting Punk's name, live on Raw], so if they were willing to go back to Chicago on Raw and say that they lied and apologized and that he was fired on his wedding day and see how the fans in Chicago react, then he would consider signing such a document.

 

Punk said he wasn't trying to go on an anti-WWE tirade and that if people think that's what he was doing on Cabana's show, it was really him telling his story. He said that if there are bitter parts, that's part of "f***ing life" and he's working through it and trying to get over it.

 

Punk said that WWE kept saying to his lawyer that they "knew" Punk was going to TNA and would perform on an anti-WWE platform. Punk's lawyers told them Punk wasn't going to TNA and that Punk, "Absolutely despises professional wrestling and wants nothing to do with it and will never wrestle again." Punk said that WWE kept trying to bully so they could feel like they actually won something.  

 

Punk said that there is no working relationship with WWE and there never will be ever again.

 

On his merchandise that is now being sold, WWE wanted to be able to sell off old existing merchandise that had been produced via Shopzone that he is allowing them to sell. He joked that if someone wants texting gloves in Indonesia, now they can get them and Punk will get royalties for that. 

 

Punk said the wedding day "thing" is pretty ridiculous.

 

Punk said that WWE was terrified that after ten years of Punk being an independent contractor, he was going to take them to court and "ruin" the way they do business.

 

He said he would like to see a union created to take care of the guys and the girls that way he knows WWE is serious about protecting them since they are independent contractors who aren't allowed to go work anywhere else. Punk compared that to the claim that UFC isn't a competitor to WWE, "but you can't go work there for a year after we fire you on your wedding day."

 

Punk said he doesn't like [WWE] and doesn't have to like it and is moving on to things that make him happy, like writing comic books and he's been training every day.  Cabana said he's going to be able to venture out and do new things in a new world. They talk about Punk going into new things and Cabana said that even if he fails at some of them, it's awesome that he will be doing them.

 

Punk said that he failed at wrestling and his goal of being in the main event of Wrestlemania. He said that even though Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn told him he should have been on last at Wrestlemania 29 and he thought, "Yeah, I know." He said that's the feather in his cap.

 

Punk said he feels good having discussed all of this. He said some people will be a sheep and think he quit, but he got fired and laughed at that. Punk said he doesn't want to be that crazy guy who is like "F*** WWE."

 

He said that when people online write that he doesn't speak to his friends from WWE anymore (naming that Chris Jericho said that in the reports), Punk said that he still talks to his friends, just not people with ulterior motives that are looking to go back and use conversations for their podcasts and blogs and looking to use that for attention.

 

Punk also said he wanted to clear the air on the story of a fan at a Blackhawks game who asked him for a picture and that Punk blew him off.  Punk said that he was out with his wife on a date night on one of the rare nights they have together.  He joked that unfortunately, the other people he took a photo with didn't post online how he took photos with them, but the one guy who yelled, "Hey Phil?  Can I get a picture?" with no please or thank you did, so just as Punk was trying to buy his wife a hot dog and had his hands full with the other food they had purchased.  Punk said there was no please or politeness, so he ignored it. Punk said he is fine with people coming up to him in public, but only when they come up and are polite and ask politely.

 

"If you are nice to me, I'm nice to you.  If you are rude to me, I'm rude to you."

 

They close out telling the story of Punk seeing a guy in Los Angeles who had on a Colt Cabana t-shirt, so he paid for the guy's breakfast and tried to sneak out before the guy could see who did it.

 

www.ColtCabana.com

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All in all Elimination chamber was a good show with some very unpredictable moments. For some reason crowd was not into it. The chmaber matches werent the best so maybe save the chamber for the actual wwe championship next time. owens/Cena and ambrose/rollins were both awesome. MITB in two weeks, cant wait

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[spoiler] Holy ■■■■ Owens just beat Cena clean at Elimination Chamber[/spoiler]

rematch at MITB. Guess whos winning that one?

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Holy ■■■■ Owens just beat Cena clean at Elimination Chamber

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NXT Takeover Brooklyn - amazing. Watch it immediately.

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Time to head off for this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_or7n9KnI
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Great opener with the three-way tag match (semi-lucha rules, enter if someone goes out of the ring). A little weird with two face teams against heel champs but ■■■■■■ good action. Little guys ‘The World’s Freindliest Tag Team’ win the title.

Followed by a Hogan-Andre clone match. Unfortunately it was almost as bad as the original. Sexton Rocks may be a huge chiseled guy but geez he’s vanilla (I don’t understand why he has real following).

Hardcore next as Tommy Hellfire and The Cremator continue their feud. Cremator’s forehead got cheese gratered to hell, this was high on the Muta Scale. A lot more entertaining than expected. Highlight was a Santa doll getting its head ripped off so tacks could be poured out. Got a Merry Christmas chant! Hellfire wins with a slam through a barb wire wrapped table.

Intermission, ring needs a lot of cleanup…

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During intermission, Joffa got punked out by JXT for bullying a Santa, and I edged out the kid next to me to mark a thrown T-Shirt. Sadly it was just a sponsor shirt, for the pyrotechnics guys (who, I have to say, were awesome —everyone got pyro and/or gust machines). Nice design though.


Madison Eagles vs KC Cassidy after the break. To be honest, not the match-up I’d hoped for. KC is a tidy little package but not the hard-hitter you want up against someone who has been labelled the best woman wrestler in the world. It was actually a decent technical match but you couldn’t shake the impression (actuality) that Eagles had to go at 50% to stop it being a squash. And then KC won clean with a gogoplata. Did not see that coming…

Spoiled brat Emmanuelle up next vs Mr Juicy. I am underwhelmed by the former, and more and more impressed by Mr Juicy. My only slightly sarcastic “Juicy’s gonna kill you” chant went big pre-match while Emmanuelle was taking plenty of time getting into the ring. The guy is very entertaining and a blobby guy doing a “Canadian Destroyer” is mind-blowing. Was set to finish with that before a mass heel run-in saw him beaten to a pulp.

Main event: three-way TLC for the main title. Carlo Cannon © vs Davis Storm vs Hartley Jackson — hadn’t seen the challengers previously but they were great and this was most entertaining (and very ‘Holy ■■■■”-inducing)

And your winner and still champion:

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It was a capacity crowd at Thornbury Theatre. No Krackerjak  :((  but end-of-show video has him challenging Carlo at the next show in February.
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If you haven’t seen NXT R-Evolution you’re missing out. Seriously awesome show, with an extremely well-booked main.

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Im so glad im only streaming TLC and didn’t buy it. Absolute train wreck. Main event of Wyatt and Ambrose starting up now hoping it can save SOME face.

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Why wasn’t the Rollins/Cena match the main event?

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Why wasn't the Rollins/Cena match the main event?
Because they wanted to send the crowd home happy?

… oh wait. LOL, main event decided by exploding monitor?!?

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The storylines atm suck ■■■■.

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Am I am the only one suffering deja vu?

  • HHH restored as The Authority
  • Daniels poised to win the Rumble and advance to Wrestlemania
  • a muscle-bound darling face set to win it instead

At least Rey won’t be humiliated this year…

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Got through the first two matches before I switched to the Big Bash - first one was a bit of a spotfest for me, no real emotion in the match, and a lot of the spots had no real reason for being there. Everytime I see The Young Bucks they look great and I really like Time Splitters. Been a Shelley fan for a long time, and my first impressions of Kushida are pretty good.

The second match didn’t hold my attention, and I pretty much only watched it to see how JJ is moving these days. He’s ok.

BTW - Matt Striker is as good a colour commentator as there is in the business right now. Knowledge is second to none, and gets the talent over.

So 2 down, 8 to go.

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I’m sitting down to watch Wrestle Kingdom 9.

Hell of a lot of talk about it.

4 hours. See you on the other side.