So RAW 1000 was this past Monday and let’s just say it ended in one of the biggest shocks in recent memory. WWE Champion CM Punk has apparently turned heel.
Punk closed the show in a WWE title match with Cena, but by the end of the night had put The Rock to sleep, which you would think would turn him into an instant heat magnet and a top heel right? Wrong! I am here to tell you why turning CM Punk heel was the wrong decision on WWE’s part.
5. He Is Going To Be Cheered
The fans want to cheer Punk. It is as simple as that. The fans realise just how good he is and enjoy him too much to hate him. Even as a heel he seems to one up his opponent on the mic, the time where the face should be shown as the dominant character. Take last summer for example, you just now that Vince was praying for Cena to be cheered over Punk but it just wasn’t happening like that. As a result of his actions last summer CM Punk became the hottest property in wrestling and was getting monster pops, when Vince wanted him as a heel. The fact of the matter is Punk is so damn good as a heel it’s bad!
4. What Is There To Do Until January That Is Worthwhile?
It is pretty obvious to me that they were setting up CM Punk Vs The Rock at the Royal Rumble next year, after their interactions on RAW 1000. But once Cena reclaims the belt at Summerslam, which I am pretty sure he will do, Punk will have very little direction. Sure he may have a rematch on RAW or at the next Pay Per View, which I believe is in Cena’s home town (good luck winning that one Punk), but then what? He has October and November with no opponent. They may stick him in a feud with a mid card face such as a Sin Cara but, to borrow from my first point, he will be undoubtedly cheered in that feud.
A talent like CM Punk is far too good for the mid card. He will win the belt back at the TLC PPV in December but it won’t be a clean win, which leads me onto my next point.
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7 Comments
Jerry Lawler is hypocritical .. thats what im always saying …
the problem with wwe commentary is that they have no clear face/heel commentator, cole backs the heels then marks out for cena etc.
JR and King worked so well because you knew that JR was always going to get behind the face, whilst King was with the heels
I agree their needs to be more clarity, and Cole needs to stop marking out for Cena one week then getting his arse whooped by him the next. Striker and JR and Booker would be perfect.
I didn’t agree with Punk going heel. It’s obvious that last years set up for the rock cena, they created so many cena haters, but cena is still the cash cow but they need to get the rest of the fans they lost last year. So setting up punk to go heel makes cena prime to get all his fans back and maintain the face and the gross of the WWE universe. So I don’t think that they are making him to go heel for punks career, it’s only to keep the Demarion alive and get it as stong as possible again- but i agree there are other ways to make this all work, and keep both punk and cena as the faces- myself- I want to see Randy back and on fire!
Really disagree with you. If Punk is good at what he does, he’ll get people to boo him.
Jericho can be face then change to heel and back again in one night, he’s a genius at working the crowd, I don’t see why Punk cannot do that.
This is so true punk as a heel just doesn’t work and raw has gone more down the toilet since. If he was straight society heel then That would be fine (but you shouldn’t rehash things). Punk as a face was more creative and interesting IMO
most people in this place are tna lovers who can never see that tna is nothing compaired to wwe (cena sucks must be fired) cm punk will rise the wwe
T:toilet
N:nothinh
A:a$$ hol