7 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Nov 19)
3. "The Less Said About It, The Better"
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CM Punk offered the above sentiment on Baron Corbin and Roman Reigns' abysmal SmackDown segment from last Friday, but thankfully had more to offer before Renee Young somehow shunted things on to the next segment.
"I don't know much about Baron Corbin, he's one of the newer guys but this is not a good start" was the sort of thing that may have sounded ill-informed coming from a different wrestlers, but from Punk, this was the first toe dipped back into the causticity he was once so famed for.
As was the moment he turned to Paige to ask her if she too thought it was "garbage". The raspberry and thumbs down gesture that followed was all the agreement he needed.
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