10 Wrestling Promo Lines That Were WAY Too Personal
5. CM Punk Says Kevin Nash Is Old And Irrelevant
CM Punk was a genius pro wrestling storyteller, but in retrospect, he somewhat disappeared up his own ass in 2011.
The booking was abysmal. That should never go unmentioned. WWE turned Punk from the rebellious "voice of the voiceless" into a scab within months. It was absolutely rotten, but as incredible as the Pipebomb was from the perspective of the jaded fan desperate for change, it was a business failure. The Money In The Bank buy-rate while impressive was bettered two years later, and gauging by the TV ratings, it was all too meta to connect with the masses. Of course, AEW exists as an indirect result of that which Punk brought into focus, so it might have connected, had WWE actually changed - but the romanticised narrative clashes against the objective metrics in a match as ugly and bleak as CM Punk Vs. Kevin Nash would have been.
It obviously did not happen, and had little chance of being good, but Punk was rather too eager to play the scathing, snarky non-WWE guy. After the SummerSlam '11 twist, he rubbished Nash as an irrelevant dinosaur - "LOL WTF thought he was dead" - and said that his "knees go click-click-click'.
Punk basically built a match against an exhumed mummy. Hardly something worth looking forward to.
This seems harmless, but Nash evidently took it to heart; 11 years later, on his podcast, he seemed to delight in the idea that a much younger Punk, who missed seven years, broke down earlier than he did.
Not that Nash ever had a match as electrifying as the All Out '22 main event after 1996, but still.