Reply With QuoteOMG! CM Punk is a heel. He didn't walk out there and say gays should die or that The Netherlands should be wiped off the face of the earth. He said some insulting things about fellow wrestlers in kayfabe. I don't understand what the big deal is.
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Superstar Billy Graham Rips CM Punk For Insulting Bruno In Raw Promo
Source: Gerweck.net
Superstar Billy Graham posted the following today in response to CM Punk’s promo on RAW last night:
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I watch the last hour of WWE Raw last night. It was the worst excuse for a show I have ever seen! My agent Scott is tight with legendary World Champion Bruno Sammartino. Scott has told me that WWE has been calling Brunno regularly begging him to go into the Hall of Fame. Bruno has been polite but has always said no thank you.
Tonight on RAW for the last 45 minutes of the show all they did was have CM PUNK talk, talk and more talk! The killer line came when Vince had Punk putting over his 314 straight days as world champ and then said and I quote, ” you had people like Burno Sammartino , only wrestled in Madison Square Garden only wrestled one a month.”
This was by far the biggest put down of Bruno ever. Why would WWE have Punk say that about someone they have been begging to go into the Hall of Fame for untold years? When that teenager looking CM Punk made that statement he was also talking about me, Ivan Koloff , Stan Hanson etc. Find the re run and listen closely and answer me this my Facebook friends – How can they justify putting down a real icon like this, and not get called out on it?
Any news sites can quote me on my statement below:
CM Punk, I have lost all respect for you for nor saying no to the writers of the WWE for saying Bruno Sammartino only wrestled once a month in Madison Square Garden. You talk about one of the greatest icons ever in pro wrestling like he was a JOBBER??? You should be ashamed of yourself for not having the self-dignity to say NO to the writers on that line. That line you delivered indicates that I am a big loser like Bruno as well and insults me as I wrestled in the same era as Bruno. This only confirms more that I want my name out of the WWE Hall of Fame.
How many monthly sell outs have you yourself drawn at Madison Square Garden? Not a PPV or the Raw TV show. Quit talking trash about Bruno. It’s an insult to him and all the wrestlers of his era including myself!
Superstar Billy Graham
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OMG! CM Punk is a heel. He didn't walk out there and say gays should die or that The Netherlands should be wiped off the face of the earth. He said some insulting things about fellow wrestlers in kayfabe. I don't understand what the big deal is.
Ring Crew
I'm in full agreement . What a fuss over nothing . Sounds like old Billy's got his knickers in a knot . CM Punk has boasted about overtaking plenty of people with his reign as WWE champion . I didn't hear anybody else kicking off . These guys have got to realize that their time is done . Stop been such prima donnas and accept fact that times have moved on . And yes , what Punk said was correct . He does wrestle more than once a month , as do all the athletes in pro wrestling today ..... And they work bloody hell hard . So reality hurts sometimes ...... And if Sammartino hadn't been so bloody stubborn and accepted Hall of Fame induction , maybe then he'd get more respect . Stop whinging like grumpy old men .Originally Posted by Mr. Tambourine Man
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lol Can't believe that Graham fell for it, too.
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Wah, wah, wah. Graham isn't denying it, so I guess it's true, so what's the freaking problem? Punk is just bigging himself up, comparing himself to OTHER GREAT champions, if Bruno wasn't a great champion he wouldn't have even been mentioned, it's a sign of respect if anything. It's like Punk singled out Bruno, or said he was overrated, he simply said he only wrestled once a month while Punk wrestles several times a week. So what, it's true. Stuff like this keeps Bruno's legacy alive, if he won't join the HOF how else are the kids supposed to know who he is? Kudos to Punk to pointing towards those who came before him. After all if Bruno wasn't a memorable champion, he wouldn't have been worth mentioning.
Violence Just Got Sexy
Jobber
People really forget that wrestlers in every single decade have worked every single week they can. Punk was LYING when he said people like Bruno only wrestled once a month, chirst his two debut matches were in a span of a week let alone during the rest of his career, which he did frequently, all over the globe. It was ONLY in WWWF that he did the once a month in MSG. Because he could draw crowds against ANYBODY.
CM Punk LIED to put himself over and Vinnie Mac wanted him to do it, even though Vinnie Jr and his dad put Bruno through enough hell during his career with them (not getting paid his full amount, blackmailing him with his sons career etc)
People here need to learn their wrestling history for once.
Knox
Punk didn't even mention Graham.... and as mentioned above, he has talked himself above the likes of Bruno, Hogan, Bret et al... before.
Long term wrestling fans are never gonna but Punks 414 day reign as being more significant than a Bruno, Hogan or Backlund.
WWE is so heavily scripted these days... and though a long monlogue like Punks won't be scripted word for word... he will be given a prompt by the WWE staff on what he will talk about.
So Graham needs to blame the suits... Punk will have been just following orders
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Chris Jericho tweeted yesterday:
Dear Superstar Billy Graham, Shut the hell up and stop being such a mark. Your Pal, Chris Jericho.
Hah! Couldn't have said it any better myself.
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Graham's just dirty Punk didn't even mention him.
Seriously I saw nothing wrong with that promo it made people hate Punk he got the job done and he delivered a pipe bomb which I think was better then the one he did in 2011.
Tied for OWW funniest members 2012 looking to be the sole owner of the award for 2013
The President
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I agree on that comment
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The President
In the 80s when Lawler was SuperWittyHeel, he was about to take on big Terry Gordy in the ring. Lawler gets on the mic and says "SOMEBODY CALL THE D.E.A, THERE'S 300 POUNDS OF DOPE IN THE RING". I'll take that over "your arms are too short to box with God". I thought Punk was an atheist.
Ring Crew
It disgusts me that because of pure jealousy Graham is attacking the talent of today's industry . He's jealous he never gets mentioned as a former champion in Punk's promos , jealous that his title reign only lasted 296 days and jealous that he is not in the spotlight any longer.
It also disgusts me that , having been honoured with a Hall of Fame induction, he would ask for it to be cancelled. He should be honoured, just like Sammartino should be for been offered this . How dare he refuse? Do these guys think that they are bigger than the WWE or even the industry as a whole.
Certainly their egos seem to be .
Grumpy old men !!!
Jobber
How is that attacking wrestlers of today? When he only mentioned CM Punk, who disrespected his era.
Why would the guy who influenced Hulk Hogan, who then went on and influenced every single want to be wrestler, to actually get between them ropes today?
Billy Graham will be talked about as long as Hulk Hogan is so why would he be jealous?
Why would he be jealous when he is still the longest reigning WWE/WWF heel (CM Punk was a face at the beginning of his reign)
Calling out someone for being disrespectful is completely different to jealously.
You do know there are more prestigious Hall of Fames in wrestling then the WWE? saying no to the WWE isn't a big disrespect to the wrestling industry when the WWE is one of the only company's to show no respect to other company's.
WWE has a working relationship with two training company's. No one else.
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Gods don't worship Themselves.
Asia's official representative on OWW
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It's ONLY in WWWF that Punk was referring to though, so he is in no way lying. What Punk is doing is comparing himself to WWE's greatest champions, Punk's character's argument is that when Bruno was the champion he only wrestled once a month, Punk is now the champion and he wrestles more than once a month so the character's point is that he's a better champion than Bruno. Anything outside the title reign or the WWF/WWE is irrelevant to this comment because Punk is comparing Bruno as the company's flag bearer to Punk as the flag bearer (bare in mind Punk's character see's himself as the flag bearer so whether he is or he isn't, is not relevant either). Anything outside that period in their careers is irrelevant.
And with all that in mind, remember Punk is a heel, cutting a heel promo, he's supposed to use half truths to his advantage. It wasn't supposed to be taken as fact, it's just Punk's character trying to make himself out to be the greatest world champion of all time. I didn't hear any complaining when JBL said he was a wrestling God, because he's not a God. JBL took what was true, polished it to make him look better and then used it to support that he was a wrestling God. Punk took something that was true and used it to his advantage as a heel, to support that he's the greatest champion of all time. You're not expected to take Punk being the greatest as fact, or even that Punk is better than Bruno, his heel persona simply exploited a fact to his advantage. Doesn't mean anything, anyone that hears that simply thinks Bruno sucks because of it... well no one would do that, even the kids would discredit it because a heel said it.
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Mr. Anderson
This was a kayfabe promo that CM Punk more than likely didn't write. If the bad guy in a James Bond movie says something bad we don't rip on the actor for reading his lines.
I dislike CM Punk but this has nothin to do with him personally it merely an actor reading his lines. Pretty stupid to criticise him for doing his job.
The President
Doesn't your culture have enough gods? Then to top that off you go from worship Jericho to Sandow to Punk!
Just kidding!*hugs*
The President
For anyone's infomation, Bruno didn't just defend the WWWF Title in MSG on a monthly basis, Bruno defended the belt in Japan, Canada and all throughout the North East region. The MSG cards were the WWWF's big monthly events (pre-ppv).
The History of the WWE website has just about every WWWF/WWF/WWE result card on record dating all the way back to 1963.
http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/arena%20results.htm
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I am an atheist btw, lolDoesn't your culture have enough gods? Then to top that off you go from worship Jericho to Sandow to Punk!
Just kidding!
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Jobber
Alright lets put it this way, as Shock has already helped point out Bruno did more then once a month for the WWWF, in other countrys in other promotions.
Imagine if 30 years from now someone said
"I work every week, I'm an amazing God, I'm better then past champions especially, CM Punk because I work more matches then him even though I only defend mine against the senile"
Which is basically what wrestling is like today in comparison when people only defend against people who will give it to them again some day and don't defend against people who will literally try to kill you to take the title, something that happened in Bruno's day. But people forget that.
I don't have a problem so much with the person who either came up with it and didn't do there research (writers or Phill Brooks) because they're getting paid for it by ONE of the richest wrestling companies, I've got a problem with the WWE as a whole going "yeah Bruno worked his ass of for us but it should be fine if we disrespect his work"
And their fans/universe going "OMG SOOOOO TRUE, lol Billy Graham is just jealous"
I hate the whole "I am the greatest" or I'm a god", because it's CHEAP heat.
Cheap heat, same as going "Yankees Suck" or making a vague insulting stereo type about the audience.
If he's not doing that CM goes on long ranting monologues which are boring and formalistic.
He's a good wrestler who can do everything he needs to do in the ring, but he's gotten lazy doing that because he thinks doing a worked shoot ("Pipebomb" as you cool cats like to call it) where he insults past wrestlers because he's run out of material is a fair substitute.
And nether of us were part of the old OWW in 2005-6 to be part of people complaining about JBL "the wrestling god", so don't pull that card.
Maybe I'm old man stuck in a 21 year old body but wrestling shouldn't need 30 minute mic time, where people are shooting on eachother and the people before them or ripping into the people the company they are working for because it just switches TVs over.
People aren't going want to keep watching to see that "bad guy" lose, they will realize how stupid the whole thing is.
Its more like the bad guy going mid film "I am the greatest villain who ever lived, you should watch me and fear for I am amazing, I'm better then Robert De Niro as Al Capone, because I put more hours in"
And it wasn't spoof, it was a serious action film.
It would kill all momentum it had because it either makes you think "He is better then Al Capone...", "WTF is going on?", "Who is he on about?, I will google it" "LOL Forth Wall" "No he's not" "Man I want to watch the Untouchables now"
Only two of those thoughts were good for the bad guys interest. 4 out of the six thoughts would of changed the channel.
Good to see you back though Boosh. I forgot how well you contrasted my opinions.
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