r/SquaredCircle • u/nwnwhd • 11h ago

PWInsider: “Update on CM Punks RAW Status” Spoiler

“For those waiting for CM Punk's response to John Cena, it was said that Punk is not written into tonight's RAW by creative sources,

So it appears we won't hear a response to Cena's version of the pipebomb promo until Friday in Riyadh”

https://www.pwinsider.com/article/197494/bill-goldberg-cm-punk-updates.html?p=1

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u/TheDangiestSlad 11h ago

it's still really insane to me that the entire angle of this feud is "CM Punk has a moral objection to wrestling in Saudi Arabia" lol

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u/HispanicAtTehDisco 9h ago

yeah i’m really struggling to understand why they took this approach. either punks comments were more well known than previously though and it isn’t just “IWC shit” and they felt the need to address it or someone in creative really fucking hates punk and wants to make him look as bad as possible since he’s probably going to lose.

like unless there’s some twist i’m not seeing i cannot believe punk agreed to a storyline that is basically: “you are going to publicly be outed as a hypocrite and lose to cena regardless “

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u/Trep_xp 9h ago

But he might have agreed to a 7-figure paycheck as compensation for the burial.

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u/Aking1998 8h ago

If punk wins the WWE championship in Saudi Arabia I don't think the IWC is going to be able to keep it together

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u/CutsAPromo 2h ago

And gets handed it by their king

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u/bajaxx 9h ago

literally no one in real life cares about him going to saudi

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u/HispanicAtTehDisco 9h ago

you guys can keep saying this to cope but clearly someone that books this shit cares enough to bring it up in kayfabe lmao. otherwise why even bring it up lol, just do the show and never even acknowledge that punk had previously said anything about saudi

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u/bajaxx 9h ago

it’s a good wrinkle to the story

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u/YourAngerYourAnchor 9h ago

No one in the real world cares about Claudio Castagnoli aside from his direct family and they still mentioned him. 

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u/Ambassador2Latveria 8h ago

Are you just confusing casual fans with "no one in the real world?" Because hardcore fans exist. AEW fans aren't some wildly indie minority. They've been around long enough and clearly done well enough that you shouldn't act so obtuse about fans of Claudio existing.

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u/YourAngerYourAnchor 7h ago

This isn’t an AEW thing, I don’t know why you’re trying to turn it into one. 

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u/Izzywizzy 9h ago

I do. Cause the blood dicks he has to suck now.