Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. CM Punk
The Beer Drinker that is Stone Cold vs. the Straight Edge lifestyle CM Punk lives by. Stone Cold got under the skin of Vince McMahon. CM Punk gets under the skin of John Laurinaitis. WWE’s most famous anti-hero vs. the current one! You get my point. These two guys always gave you a show where you got your moneys worth or worth the time in watching them on TV. When Stone Cold picked up a MIC, you listened to him. When CM Punk picks up a MIC, you listen to him. You just love to hear their voices.
These guys idolized themselves. They’re both their own original character. Fans just adore them, they both get that same reaction. Perhaps not the same loudness, but still. The story of these two ranking to the top of WWE are of similar preference…. Both worked their asses off to get there!
This match may never happen, but I do however hope to God that it does.
I know Austin is not in the best condition as he has injuries, which is what forced him out of Wrestling, but a one-time match, on the grandest stage of them all, with the world watching, I think they could put on a fantastic show for a tremendous occasion.
Would you like to see this match? Does it need to happen? Many say it would ‘save’ wrestling, do you think it would? Not that wrestling needs saving, but it could attract way more fans back into it again. Whether your opinion is completely for or against this match going down, drop me your thoughts below.
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Did you see that Punk/Austin promo vid that Punk retweeted months back?
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No, I will try and find it.
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Fuck, that looks insanely awesome! Wow, I’m left speechless. They could build a fantastic story up between these two!
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Punk/Austin should be the anti-Rock/Cena. No insults, just respect.
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Yeah it should be, if it’ll happen. It would be so interesting to watch!
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Shoot! They don’t need any bickering. Just say they respect what the other stands for(even if they disagree) and what they bring to the table. Have a match to see who is better.
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Agreed. That would be good, they disagree with each other but thy respect each other. I’d watch it. Who wouldn’t want to watch it?
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Hipsters who don’t like popular things.
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I’d love to see Austin v Punk and I think it will happen at WM29. Austin is in the best shape of his life and he even said he could do a full time WWE schedule if he needed the money so they should no problem pulling off a great match.
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I heard about that too not long ago, I should of added that in there!
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I think Stone Cold’s injuries are a little bit exaggerated. Wrestling another match could be risky, but I think he can take more bumps than Edge or Bret Hart could.
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He’s in much better condition that what most people think. He did say he could return to a full year schedule with WWE if he needed to.
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I’m not so sure about this one. I don’t think it will match the mainstream publicity of Rock vs. Cena, and Punk must be a heel for it to work. It seems as if Jericho has singlehandedly been carrying their feud and Punk’s promos haven’t been the best as of late. The whole straight edge gimmick of his character would work alot better if he were to use it to make himself appear better than everyone else (like he did in ROH or the Straight Edge Society).
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Does it have to?
The promos would be just so interesting. It won’t need a full year of hype, 6 interesting weeks would cut it for me.
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Yeah. I’d like to see it. I just think Punk would need to go heel to really pull it off well.
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I was just thinking what Capt. said above. They could just build off the respect but they disagree with each other. Either way, it would be so interesting to watch!
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Ray, you know the “like button” idea? What about “quote or reference points”? lol
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It’s for sure a dream match of mine and I would want the promos to get nasty and rage filled. I think these two, if given a year or so to work something out would create something so vicious and deadly everyone would be tuning in to see it. Just like when Austin and Vince first started going at it.
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As I’m working my way down the comments, 3 different people would set up different programmes if they were booking them! lol.
I still think building off respect but disagreement would be the best. Like imagine the crowd pop when Austin would say he respects CM Punk.
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To me the disagreement should be minimal. It would just be a throw away sentence. Nothing more. They could build it as a “two sides of the same coin” type of angle. Have Austin guzzling tons of beer, calls Punk out to give him a drink, then pulls out a Pepsi. It would be good for a laugh.
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Why would Punk ‘toast’ to a beer that ”made his Father an alcoholic” whom used to give him a slap every time he came home from work. Punk despises the beer, he doesn’t mind people having it as it’s not his business, but it’s something he stands against, it wouldn’t make sense to me for Punk to do that.
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No, Austin with the beer. Punk with the Pepsi.
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Would love this match to happen, both for the build and the match itself. I’d suspect Punk may even play heel for it to, if only to add to the beer drinking… clean cut promos.
No lights, no catchphrases, smiles or songs… just… business.
If held as prominent as the Rock/Cena match then it would do nothing but elevate Punk to the highest of levels… where he damn well deserves to be.
And thats the bottom line…
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Cause Andy Smiith says so!!!
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Stone Cold is in good condition it’s just he could possibly inure himself.
Yeah, Rock – Cena was too much ‘Hollywood” and not about getting business done. Punk/Austin would need exactly opposite of that, and that’s what Punk/Austin are.
Hell Yeah ….. YES! YES! S! S! S! S!
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Yeah, a respect angle with Rock and Cena would’ve help legitimize Cena in the hearts of the smark crowd. In fact, I would’ve had the Rock tell off people for bashing Cena and saying, “John Cena is the greatest ambassador this company has ever had. If you still boo Cena after all he has done for this business, it’s YOU who have the problem, not Cena!”. Cena wins at WM, they shake and hug in front of the crowd. Cena leaves and gives Rock that one last moment to soak in the cheers while wearing trunks.
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Rock was dissing Cena for the entire year, after WM he said how he respected him. These two will definitely have another match at some point down the line. I think Cena will beat Rock for WWE title. Rock wouldn’t say something like he wanted to be WWE champ if it wasn’t gonna happen.
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I hope they go at it again. It takes a bit of time to build chemistry in the ring.
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I respect where you’re coming from but have to disagree. Cena haters do not want to hear his rivals putting him over. If The Rock had done it, all it would have accomplished was to make them respect The Rock less. Cena was starting to get more respect from the crowd when he actually responded to The Rock like a human being and really tore into him without pandering to The Rock and burying himself like he usually does in comic fashion. Cena gets cheers when he shows real emotion, I don’t think it’s an issue of making people realise how much he does for the business, it’s about watching a product where the main character appears three dimensional and responds to criticism with venom and gusto. I agree with your idea on ending the match with the sign of respect but the build itself has to be based on hatred and thrive on a genuine sense of conflict.
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See, I don’t think it would make a difference to many Cena-haters how it was booked. They would still hate him anyway, unless he turned heel. Then many would start to cheer him.
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It’s not “Hell Yeah!” anymore, it’s “YES!YES!YES!”
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No, it’s “SI! SI! SI!”…or “SALLY”, dammit!!!
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I see it as ”YES! YES! S! S! S!”
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“S! S! S!”?
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I can hear the first two ”YES! YES” then after that it sounds ”S! S! S!” etc.. lol
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It’s a snake in the crowd!
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This has to happen. End of. After seeing Punks clips on the Stone Cold bluray you can tell both guys respect the shit out of each other!!
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Yeah the promos would be immense. I can’t see them having a great match though. Nothing to do with Austin being out of shape, it’s just when I visualise them wrestling it doesn’t look good.
To be honest I’d much prefer Rock vs Punk for the clash of styles both verbally and inside the ring. Think they could really make you believe in the hatred too whereas with Austin/Punk you’d always know they’re on good terms even when they’re tearing into each other.
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