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CM Punk.
CM Punk was probably like a lot of 5-year-olds dreaming about sassing back to Mom without having dessert banned for the evening.
He saw Rowdy Roddy Piper on television, and Piper had all this attitude, telling people off, yet getting away with it and even backing it up. Wow.
“That was the moment,” Punk said in a interview, “that I wanted to be a wrestler.”
Only Punk followed up on the dream. He actually became a wrestler, and he’ll be one of the guys performing for Smackdown Sunday at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland.
Good luck symbols adorn his left arm, such as a horseshoe, some dice and a Koi fish, but that’s really for irony, he said. Punk doesn’t believe in luck.
“I think everything that comes your way is what you put into it,” he said.
Punk, like most wrestlers, had to work hard to get where he is. He attended wrestling school and performed all over the world for eight years, in small venues that gradually got bigger, until he signed with the WWE.
“It’s extremely hard to make it,” he said. “Wrestling is not the most visible business in the world. If you want to play baseball you can start in little league and go through high school and continue from there, but pro wrestling is sort of tucked underneath all that stuff. You have to do a lot more searching.”
The WWE promoters have booked him for success. He became ECW champion last year, and he recently was the winner of a ladder match that featured Chris Jerico and others, giving him the opportunity to demand a title match for a WWE belt whenever he wants.
He’d like it to be the heavyweight belt.
Wrestling isn’t as popular as it was a few years ago, but Punk believes wrestling is just going through one of its cycles.
“It’s been more popular, but the hard-core fans are always going to be here,” he said. “I’m a hard-core fan myself, and I’ll always be here. It’s not going anywhere.”
He saw Rowdy Roddy Piper on television, and Piper had all this attitude, telling people off, yet getting away with it and even backing it up. Wow.
“That was the moment,” Punk said in a interview, “that I wanted to be a wrestler.”
Only Punk followed up on the dream. He actually became a wrestler, and he’ll be one of the guys performing for Smackdown Sunday at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland.
Good luck symbols adorn his left arm, such as a horseshoe, some dice and a Koi fish, but that’s really for irony, he said. Punk doesn’t believe in luck.
“I think everything that comes your way is what you put into it,” he said.
Punk, like most wrestlers, had to work hard to get where he is. He attended wrestling school and performed all over the world for eight years, in small venues that gradually got bigger, until he signed with the WWE.
“It’s extremely hard to make it,” he said. “Wrestling is not the most visible business in the world. If you want to play baseball you can start in little league and go through high school and continue from there, but pro wrestling is sort of tucked underneath all that stuff. You have to do a lot more searching.”
The WWE promoters have booked him for success. He became ECW champion last year, and he recently was the winner of a ladder match that featured Chris Jerico and others, giving him the opportunity to demand a title match for a WWE belt whenever he wants.
He’d like it to be the heavyweight belt.
Wrestling isn’t as popular as it was a few years ago, but Punk believes wrestling is just going through one of its cycles.
“It’s been more popular, but the hard-core fans are always going to be here,” he said. “I’m a hard-core fan myself, and I’ll always be here. It’s not going anywhere.”
