The Post Rumble Rumors About CM Punk

The internet exploded yesterday after a TMZ “reporter” got a statement from CM Punk, suggesting that after finding himself dissatisfied with the shenanigans at the Royal Rumble on Sunday, he is suddenly leaving the WWE.  Yes... a man who wrestled in legion halls and high school gyms for $20 a show out of his sheer love of wrestling is now thought to be suddenly turn his backing on history's largest and most iconic wrestling franchise.  Reports claim that after the Rumble, CM Punk told Vince McMahon that he was going home to Chicago and apparently he doesn’t plan on performing any live events in the upcoming weeks.  His contract though, has him bound to the WWE until July.

I'm not one to argue with TMZ as a perfectly credible “news” source but I feel that maybe if you ask a professional wrestler about the outcome of a predetermined event and their prospects towards future predetermined events, then they may just answer in character to uphold the story line that paints CM Punk as the frustrated and oppressed rogue who's caught endlessly squirming beneath the heel of The Authority.  Or maybe he is just that pissed off that on short notice Batista was suddenly written in to win the Royal Rumble and headline WrestleMania.  He has every right to be pissed off.  Yet the way in which Punk was eliminated from the Rumble still hangs strangely overhead and has yet to be addressed. 

Cm punk has been relegated to somewhere near the middle of the card while the WWE pumps some of their other superstars into the limelight.  However, during his time where he isn't in competition for any major title, WWE's writers have him struggling against a corrupt and vengeful authority, overcoming staggering odds and constantly proving that he can defeat two or three other wrestlers at the same time.  Maybe, just maybe, the WWE and it's writers have that special kind of creative foresight to have all this happening to Punk so that he can remain a fan favorite and a tested and proven warrior without distracting from their other superstars' title runs.  Maybe this is why the WWE has events such as the Elimination Chamber Pay Per-View for just such an instance where someone who hasn't had any clear shot at the title, yet has proven perfectly capable of making a run at it, can finally get just such a chance.  Will Kane, Stephanie or Triple H step out Monday and finally address the debacle that cost CM Punk the win at the Royal Rumble which if not rectified will set a precedent for all future Royal Rumbles that a wrestler once eliminated may still interfere freely with the outcome?

 The rumors already abound that Triple H may be dusting off the old tights for a fight with Punk at WrestleMania and Triple H has had a penchant for making men wrestle for their jobs lately.  However, I've also found it odd that since uniting the belts they are still making poor Randy Orton lug two straps around.  If the championships are truly combined, why is this not signified by a single belt?  Could it be because they may end up separated again soon, perhaps with one going to a little, bearded man that we all know deserves one and the other going to some frustrated fringe dweller that defied all the odds to suddenly surprise us all by winning it?

I know that you’re frustrated.  We are all frustrated.  With the launch of the WWE network looming on the horizon, the folks pulling the strings at WWE know that now is the time to make those creative moves that don’t sit quite right with us.  They know what they are doing, and so does CM Punk. When it comes to the rumors of CM Punk's departure from the WWE, I can only assure you of this...  Like most of the world’s greatest people, CM Punk is a Cubs fan and Cubs fans know heartache and frustration and we even know someone occasionally reaching over where they shouldn’t and costing us a championship, but we keep coming back stronger and crazier.  Keep that in mind.  Whatever happens with CM Punk, he’s always going to be the best in the world.

Sister Abigail and the Creators of New Worlds.

      The collective heart of the WWE Universe bleeds this day with frustrated sadness over the outcome of last night’s Royal Rumble Pay Per View but we cannot deny that the wrestling world shakes today with its repercussions.  I woke up to the whisper; a woman’s name floating strangely on the wind and a fire burned in some deep, dark place in my heart.  The name I heard it haunts me in the way that it has haunted the WWE for months but today the sweetness of her name holds in it a new meaning.  You listen close and you’re going to feel it before you hear it; an unsettling little chill in your bones perhaps, but for some of us we’re going to hear it and feel the sweet warmth of the burning fire.  Sister Abigail….Oh how I have waited.

  

   At long last Bray Wyatt has been validated before the wide, frightened eyes of the WWE Universe.  Before they’d come, the Wyatt family taunted the WWE with its haunting, cryptic message.  When finally they appeared, they together brutalized anyone upon whom they set their eyes but in toe to toe battle the patriarch of the Wyatt family proved mostly unimpressive.  No matter how badly we longed to believe; no matter how many lamb’s masks appeared in the crowd night after night, on his own, Bray Wyatt couldn’t seem to win a match.  Even so, we wanted desperately to believe. 

      When Bray Wyatt stood against Kane inside the ring of fire we longed to see Bray Wyatt lay waste to the big, red monster.  One on one though, Kane was undefeatable and Bray relied on the assistance of Luke Harper and Eric Rowan once more.  When they snatched Kane away, we held our breath and waited to see what wicked thing would come of it all and in the end, there was nothing.  Kane returned as if nothing had even happened. 

      Then it took all three members of the Wyatt family just to harass the resilient Daniel Bryan for a few weeks.  They wore him down soon enough and though Bryan claims that his immersion into the family was part of a clever scheme, when we watch the matches and we look into Daniel Bryan’s eyes we can see the defeat.  Daniel Bryan might have found some strange new resolve and turned his back on the family that loved him and he may have surprised Bray Wyatt inside a steel cage.  Last night at the Royal Rumble though, Bray Wyatt cleanly defeated Daniel Bryan; the man who just weeks ago had won the championship.  Harper and Rowan had no need to interfere.  At long last the WWE Universe bore witness to the devastating power of Bray Wyatt and in the end Daniel Bryan succumbed to sweet Sister Abigail.

       During last night’s championship match the Wyatt family appeared once more and made their powerful presence known to two of the toughest competitors currently in the WWE.  John Cena met his devastating loss beneath the menacing gaze of the Wyatts last night and he felt the dual belts slip through his fingers again.  Perhaps the war between John Cena and the Wyatt family or between him and Bray Wyatt is now soon to come. 

      Bray Wyatt has made it clear now that he can stand with any man or beast in the WWE and he knows no fear.  Questions circle the WWE Universe now.  What happens now?  Will John Cena come for vengeance against the Wyatts?  And what is to come of Daniel Bryan?  His run for the title has been played out.  His own war with the Wyatts has been decided…unless of course John Cena and Daniel Bryan wage a new war with the Wyatt family.  A new world is being created before us.  It’s time for RAW.  Follow the buzzards.