10 Things I Hate About CM Punk
9. He's Not Announced His Memoirs Yet
This is a man who was working his way up in the indies as the latter half of the Attitude Era segued into the initial years of the Ruthless Aggression Era. This is a man who was backyarding in high school, who was at the forefront of Ring Of Honor and became the companys first head trainer.
Punk worked in TNA in the early, chaotic NWA days, before they even had a non-PPV television show. He wrestled Eddie Guerrero in the IWA, becoming close friends with the future WWE Hall Of Famer before he rejoined the WWF. He was one of the legendary Harley Races favourites of the new school of wrestling, and a Paul Heyman guy after he signed with the WWE.
Becoming the iron man of the independents with Chris Hero, Samoa Joe and Colt Cabana. Fracturing his skull and refusing painkillers in recovery because straight edge means hes harder than you. Two Summers Of Punk in 2005 and 2011, winning Money In The Bank twice, that record-setting WWE Championship run and the office politics that sullied it. The many women in wrestling hes been linked to, and the woman he married.
Given all that, and given the two years its been since he retired... wheres his gratuitous book of memoirs? Mick Foleys wrung out his whole life as a series of bestsellers; Chris Jericho has written three. Wheres CM Punks wrestling autobiography?
His wife has her own coming out next year, and - with respect to AJ - she hasnt nearly had the career Punk has. Yet he seems content to co-write comic books on the side while he trains for his UFC debut.
The official WWE DVD documentary won't have told anything near the whole story, or maybe even the true story, especially given the worked-shoot aspects of the whole Second Summer Of Punk. Give us a book! Spill your guts!