7 Ups & 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Dec 10)

CM Punk goes 45 minutes on Fox but SIXTY on a house show?!

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There are few wrestlers further apart in terms of...well, just about everything than CM Punk and Baron Corbin, but it was the presence of both the ‘Voice Of The Voiceless’ and WWE’s current King that the company and Fox utilised to try and hook viewers for the latest edition of a show that continues to look for footing rather than actually finding it.

Punk’s lone appearance since his shocking return hasn’t exactly helped - the former WWE Champion is categorically the biggest curiosity draw Backstage has regardless of the angles making the news on television, but the fact he appears not to be doing it full time makes keeping those viewers slightly trickier. And anyway, why isn’t he? That’s perhaps the one thing he will have in common with ‘The Lone Wolf’ - neither of them can be a*sed with this show every week.

Luckily (?), your writer can. WWE filler it might be, but it’s digestible content compared to how it feels to sit down to two or three hours of the longest weekly episodic programmes in the f*cking universe or however they refer to them these days. Seth Rollins came across positively affable last time, how did the wholly detestable dog food aficionado manage this week?

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 7 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 30 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz", Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 50,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett