Look Chicago, its nothing personal, and its understandable that you would want it to happen, but youve got to let CM Punk go. Its been 15 months since he walked out on WWE, and he is a UFC fighter now. His wife has retired from in-ring competition, probably spurred on in part by the incessant CM Punk chants that accompanied her matches. When Punks departure was still fresh and fans felt like hed be back any day, it made perfect sense. When fans were frustrated with the direction of WWE and wanted to voice their displeasure, Punks absence was a valid thing to call attention to. But after more than a year, it just gets old. Hes clearly moved on with his life, so why keep bringing his name back into the mix? Its chants like that that probably give WWE pause to let Hideo Itami use the Go To Sleep (which he originated), figuring that the minute he hits it, some crowd that thinks its clever will burst into a CM Punk chant. Its time to move on.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
