"With C.M. Punk cashing in the Money in the Bank Contract Sunday night, does that now make Punk a wrestling villain? I think not. I think many fans were more upset that Jeff Hardy lost than they were with Punk winning . It seems to me that any one with a brain would pick the most opportune time possible to cash in the MIB Contract and moments after an insane, ladder match seems like perfect timing. Now, the fans themselves may turn against Punk and if so, fine, but Punk’s actions at Extreme Rules don’t seem as if they should automatically make him public enemy #1. Punk has some “attitude” so I think he will be able to handle whatever comes his way"
With this being said by JR, you can't quite get a feeling if Punk may turn heel or not. JR's blog is pretty much kayfabe, so he naturally gives us what fans who believe wrestling is totally real would say.
JR dismissed the idea to begin with in an earlier blog, but did give us something this time.
Fact is, Punk will not go heel because the WWE does not want him to. With the PG format, Punk's image is something they want to get out there.
If her were a heel then he could do the same gimmick, but it would be an annoying one. It is a good thing to be "straightedge", Don't Drink, Don't Smoke, Don't do Drugs. The issue, is if you see the way it was used in ROH it won't work in the WWE.
In ROH he made fun of the beer drinkers, telling them they were going to die from liver failure and thinks like that. So when the face went over in him, they cheered. So because the heel Punk told them not to drink, they drank.
It sets a bad example if we have the same Punk in the WWE in the PG format, because people will want to go against his straightedge image and do drugs, smoke, or drink if he tells them not to. It would turn out to be ok to do them.
Which is why his heel image that would be good to see from ROH and other promotions won't be seen in the WWE. The WWE would kill Punk as a heel because they know they can't use the same Punk heel image that he did before.
They have to push the face Punk, not make him heel. Also, with the lack of faces right now on SmackDown, they need to keep him face right now.
He will probably go against Edge for the most part, or possibly do a little with both Edge and Hardy. This could be why the WWE is making a Triple Threat for the WH Title on Monday, to help start that up.
The WWE knows it would make Punk heelish if he went against Hardy one on one. In a triple threat, not so much.
Legendary Wrestler dies in the ring
On a sad note, Japanese legend Mitsuharu Misawa has died in Hiroshima, Japan after being dropped on his head during a GHC tag team title match.
Apparently he took a high-angled back suplex at around 8:45pm. The ref asked Misawa whether he could move, and he responded by saying no, then a few seconds later he lost consciousness.
The match was stopped at 27:03 and all the NOAH wrestlers and officials came into the ring. A doctor was brought in from the crowd who tried heart massage because by then Misawa has stopped breathing. The heart massage brought back his pulse, and he was rushed to a nearby hospital. However sadly he was officially pronounced dead at 10:10pm.
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