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WWE News: Just What Was CM Punk About to Say About Vince McMahon on Monday?

Alfred KonuwaJun 30, 2011

With CM Punk's promo still resonating among the pro wrestling community, as his streak as a lead story is beginning to threaten Tiger Woods' record, there still remain a few angles from the promo to digest. 

Prior to being cutoff mid-rant this past Monday night on RAW, CM Punk was getting ready to tell a "personal story" about Vince McMahon

According to sources, Punk's promo was entirely improvised, with producers telling him to go out and say what he felt and why he was leaving.  Punk was notified that he would be cut off once backstage officials felt "he was going too far."

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It was certainly wise of backstage officials to cut off CM Punk prior to telling what could have been a detrimental personal story about McMahon, although I'm sure the WWE shareholders (if they actually watched the product they pour their money into) would be quite interested in hearing what this story was.

As he was getting ready to turn his cannons of frustrations back towards Vince McMahon, Punk set up the story by referencing the anti-bullying campaign.  He was likely about to call out the chairman for being a hypocrite as WWE has teamed up with the Be a Star Alliance to inform its audience about the dangers of bullying. 

The campaign, of course, has been launched in spite its chairman being one of the most notorious bullies the wrestling business has ever seen both on and off camera.  Perhaps this is why Triple H and Stephanie McMahon have taken the reigns on this project.

The irony of Vince McMahon telling anybody not to be a bully would almost be unbearable. 

Perhaps Punk was about to tell a personal story of McMahon's sick humor.  A humor which has been satiated at the expense of tenured wrestling talents such as Jim Ross and, most recently, Mark Henry. 

Following Ross' bout with Bells Palsy in 1994, McMahon opted to fire him.  Ross is widely considered the greatest wrestling announcer of all time despite McMahon's best efforts to make him expendable.  And despite McMahon hiring Ross back, in what would become a string of WWE firing Jim Ross only to realize the void his departure created, McMahon has gone on to create a highlight reel of on-camera torture of a pillar of wrestling. 

McMahon has since fired Ross on television, had him drafted to the lower profile SmackDown show with no prior knowledge, and even booked Ross to join his "Kiss My Ass" Club, a now defunct WWE institution which was just another example of McMahon's sick humor and bullying ways in and of itself.

McMahon's odd humor was put on display at a recent SmackDown taping, where he and his cronies ribbed Mark Henry.  Henry was told he was to have a match against Sin Cara, only to stand in the middle of the ring for nearly half an hour and be subject to a public airing of musical chairs with ropes.

Maybe Punk was about to revisit the story of "tan-gate," where McMahon was accused by a 22-year-old Tanzabar employee of sexual harassment. 

While it is unimaginable that any employee would go after McMahon this harshly on live TV, so was every other word of CM Punk's shoot promo.  Needless to say, this would have definitely qualified as "going too far." 

Nationally Syndicated radio host, ESPN personality, and smack talking enthusiast Jim Rome offered an invite to have CM Punk come on his radio show (so much for the idiots who think the promo was too insider) and explain just what it was he was about to say before being cutoff. 

This is an appearance that CM Punk would have every reason to make following his tenure with WWE, as the free exposure couldn't hurt now that he will no longer be featured on WWE TV for the foreseeable future. 

There are countless examples of McMahon's bullying ways that could have been manufactured into a story by CM Punk, who seemed to be moments away from exposing McMahon as a hypocrite. 

McMahon's on-camera personality is one of a bullying, egomaniacal boss who fires those who cross him and feels he is above the law because, well, he is the law.  McMahon proficiently played this character in the Attitude Era to help WWE reach new heights. 

They always say the best characters are just extensions of one's own real life personality, and the fact that McMahon is a real life bully (who amassed his fortunes by bullying the territories out of business alongside Ctulu Hogan) supports this theory.

CM Punk's revolution last week, as incredible as it was, still left much to be desired.  Perhaps somebody will one day be able to extract from him the personal story he teased about Vince McMahon.  But for now, it remains but a live ellipsis to one of the greatest shoot promos of all time.  

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