Whats so good about CM Punk?

[scorpiorising]

So in his heyday I wasn't watching. But I've always heard of him and saw his spectacular MMA fights. In my limited views actually seeing him, he doesn't seem very charismatic, a good gimmick or be particularly agile.

So whats with the crazy following he has? Is there a couple good matches anyone can recommend that he was good in?

 

[Pittie Petey]

Hes the best in the world

 

[Max Power]

Great on the mic with a gimmick that works great as a heel or face. If somebody thinks otherwise then fair enough, but that is why he is popular. He is great at getting a lot of people to care. And of course, in ring he was damn good. (We'll see if he still is.)

Many legends including Bret Hart and Steve Austin have spoken very highly of him.

 

[GSPSAKU]

He was excellent in the ring and even better on the mic. Face or heel, he had the ability to make you really believe what he was saying and that is HARD to do. The ability to get people to care is paramount and Punk was able to do that just about as well as anyone.

 

[El Moose]

He's an un-athletic dork who plays to the smarks, or to put it another way.....he's an underdog

 

[My Spot]

Neckbeard basement babies worship him because he looks like a meth addicted short order cook from a Waffle House in Iowa.

 

[Herwald]

I seriously have no idea.

 

[CrippleWerk]

So in his heyday I wasn't watching. But I've always heard of him and saw his spectacular MMA fights. In my limited views actually seeing him, he doesn't seem very charismatic, a good gimmick or be particularly agile.

So whats with the crazy following he has? Is there a couple good matches anyone can recommend that he was good in?

vs John Cena - Money in the Bank
vs Samoa Joe and Bryan Danielson - Ring of Honor
vs Undertaker - Wrestlemania
vs Cena on Raw right before MITB

He's an un-athletic dork who plays to the smarks, or to put it another way.....he's an underdog

This is true. Just like Daniel Bryan.

I personally think he's a shitty human being but he's pretty incredible at what he does which is obviously pro wrestling. Exactly like Shawn Michaels. Punk doesn't get the whole point of the Straight Edge movement as Ian Mckaye started it and uses the cultural distortion of it to his advantage. HBK does the same with Christianity.

 

[kuroro]

So in his heyday I wasn't watching. But I've always heard of him and saw his spectacular MMA fights. In my limited views actually seeing him, he doesn't seem very charismatic, a good gimmick or be particularly agile.

So whats with the crazy following he has? Is there a couple good matches anyone can recommend that he was good in?

Got crazy heat saying super personal backstage shit loud on the microphone on TV. He had some other good angles too, but that's kind of what made him white hot in the eyes of internet wrestling fandom.

His ring work is not bad actually, but that's not why he's popular at all.

 

[kuroro]

I personally think he's a shitty human being but he's pretty incredible at what he does which is obviously pro wrestling. Exactly like Shawn Michaels. Punk doesn't get the whole point of the Straight Edge movement as Ian Mckaye started it and uses the cultural distortion of it to his advantage. HBK does the same with Christianity.

I dunno. He looks like shit and doesn't really hold a candle to Shawn in ring work. And I think Shawn's promos are just as good if not better.

 

[Herwald]

Exactly like Shawn Michaels...

Bruh... Shawn Michaels was sexy as fuck while looking like he could kick your ass. Charisma, mic skills, voice, excellent psychology. Spunk looks and sounds like some random dude pulled from the audience.

 

[A Pennysworth]

Hes #1 on the mic, his in ring work is ok. And hes a nice guy. Both Big E and Kofi have said hes helped them in their careers.

 

[BEAST]

Bruh... Shawn Michaels was sexy as fuck while looking like he could kick your ass. Charisma, mic skills, voice, excellent psychology. Spunk looks and sounds like some random dude pulled from the audience.

Shawn got beat up by civilians at a bar.
Bill Watts would have sent him packing the next day.

 

[Herwald]

Shawn got beat up by civilians at a bar...

He was getting them over.

 

[Frank23]

It might be somewhere in there.

 

[Max Power]

The E-drones ITT really need to get new jokes/talking points.

 

[CrippleWerk]

He was getting them over.

Hahaha, nice!

I don't think he's nearly as good as HBK but like him in that they're both really good at their jobs but shitty at being decent, morally sound individuals outside of the wrestling world. They also both use a belief system/movement to their advantage in a way that nobody was intended to use it in the first place. Punk with this pseudo "straight edge" Hbk with his pseudo "Christianity"

 

[Prelimtapper]

Generational talent in terms of his mic skills, he comes off more geniune than anybody since Steve Austin. Great worker, even if a bit sloppy.

 

[sleepwalk]

I was felt he was overrated but, as a rule, you have to be really good to be overrated.
Great mic worker and right guy right place right time for his schtick. Good but not great in the ring. Had crossover appeal in a way Vince didn't understand at the time (and probably doesn't now.)

He was kind of the anti-Hogan. Looked like ass. Probably did more than he had to in the ring. Played himself sincerely as a character, warts and all, that people related to. Didn't flex on the office for his friends. Played to bitter adults instead of starry-eyed kids. Wanted to wrestle but up and left and stayed away. Never stopped talking shit about WWE regardless of where or when.

 

[White Whale]

He connected to many people I guess he gave them hope that could accomplish the same things he did in wrestling.

I saw his documentary about how he started and the man that trained him to be a pro wrestler said CM Punk had no athletic ability which was obvious when he fought in the UFC.