CM Punk's LiveJournal page description reads: "I am the bastard son of Vampira and Rowdy Roddy Piper. I will kill you if you look at me the wrong way. Those who know me love me." An iconoclastic loudmouth with a nomadic upbringing who repeatedly told Vince McMahon where to shove it, and how far it needed to go. As well, the one guy who took the company's marquee player past the edge of where it was believable that he could and/or should be the World Heavyweight Champion. As much as that's Roddy Piper's legacy, it's CM Punk's legacy too. Depending on the kind of gum you're chewing, it could easily violate being straight edge. But he certainly kicked enough ass to make up for it.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
