What's happening kiddies! Been a while since I've done my wrestling blogs but I'm back and what a hell of a historic week for the WWE, although some of it wasn't flattering. We'll start with the positive. The WWE's annual pre-Thanksgiving event, Survivor Series, was this past Sunday. This was a very lackluster event as a whole (what else is new), but there was one earth-shattering highlight. Leading up to the historic arrival of an icon, the main event was in full swing. The company did a great job promoting the main event, which consisted of Team Cena (Cena, the newly babyfaced Ryback, Ziggler, Big Show, and a surprising teammate in former Wyatt member Erick Rowan) vs. Team Authority (Rollins, Henry, the undefeated U.S. Champ Rusev, Kane, and the new Inter-Continental Champ, the other Wyatt member Luke Harper). The match itself was overall well done, but what was surprising was the match ended up revolving around Ziggler. It wasn't about Cena, as he was eliminated in the match thanks to a heel-tuning Big Show (yet again). The former 3-time I-C Champ showed that he belonged in the main event with a hellacious showing for himself. As he started eliminating Harper and got Rusev counted out, it was down to him and Rollins. Before long HHH and Steph were desperate, knocking out refs and such. Then, in what was the biggest moment perhaps in many years, the lights went out and a video emerged on the titantron, and it was clear...it was Sting! Then, the man himself appeared and the roof completely was blown off. As we witnessed a staredown for the ages between him and HHH, the Game attempted to strike first, but Sting countered with the Scorpion Deathtrap, and put Ziggler on top of Rollins for the win.
Longtime fans have been eagerly awaiting his on-air arrival since signing a Legends and Merchandising deal with WWE late summer. Not to mention his appearance on WWE 2K15 as a downloadable character. For those that have been fans for over twenty years, you know this was the moment you've been waiting for, as Sting was widely considered the greatest wrestler of all-time never signed by Vince. At fifty-five years of age, he doesn't need a full-time schedule, but truthfully, so what? It's irrelevant. The fact that he's there is a historic moment in itself. If he only has one or two matches remaining in him, he has already made our wildest dream come true. Now it's a matter of who he'll face. The obvious selection will be HHH, but he's stated in the past that he would love to face Taker at WM. We'll see how it goes, but for now us fans are still marking out over the debut of the last of the remaining icons.
Now on to another matter. This morning, the wait was over! Estranged WWE star CM Punk FINALLY did a shoot interview with his great friend Colt Cabana on his podcast about his departure from WWE. To no surprise, he held nothing back, although he was very calm and docile. He revealed some very classless and insensitive things about the house that Vince built. Among some of the highlights of the hour long interview was the fact that after he "took his ball and went home", he was suspended for two months, and was then fired on his wedding day to current Diva, AJ Lee. Furthermore, he revealed that he had been wrestling with a potentially life threatening MERSA staph infection that the WWE chief physician just kept giving him z-packs for months that ended up in him losing countless hours of sleep due to pain as well as diarrhea bouts. He revealed that he was unsurprisingly working with numerous injuries including concussions and banged up knees and elbows but that Vince would barely give him any time off to heal, and that he would actually look forward to surgery just so he could have time off and rehab. One surprising moment came when he revealed that he came up with the idea for The Shield, only instead of Roman, he wanted now-released star Chris Hero, or known in NXT as Kassius Ohno. Also remember when HHH walked Floyd Mayweather to the ring before a bout of his over the summer? Well, put that another Punk idea because he had asked to walk alongside UFC fighter and friend Chael Sonnan, but Vince shot that idea down claiming UFC was "barbaric". This can be found on Colt Cabana's website, colt cabana.com. Trust me, it's well worth your time and serves as the most interesting shoot podcast in years. Hopefully, this will put to rest any and all rumors leading up to this interview. Many will never look at WWE the same again, and perhaps rightfully so in my opinion. It's funny how promotion can make you hate something you've loved for so long. It makes me push for the the North American success of the New Japan Pro pay per view in January, Wrestlekingdom, that much more.
This is really a no-holds-barred interview that is very detailed and captivating and I highly encourage any fan or mark to listen. This has given me even more respect for Punk for being a fighter and literally putting his health and well being on the line for a company that truthfully didn't have his back, even with them putting the strap on him for over four hundred thirty days. Part two of the interview will be next week, and this time (duh, duh, DUH) he's answering tweets and questions. Rather historic week like I mentioned folks. See you guys next time around!
