WWE News: Make room on your DVD shelf, a three-disc CM Punk set is due out soon
by Sergio Hernandez on Feb 2, 2012 4:48 PM EST
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On the latest episode of the Art of Wrestling -- Colt Cobana's podcast where he sits down and shoots the breeze with a different wrestling personality each week -- best friend and former traveling buddy -- although you may know him as the current WWE Champion -- CM Punk finally confirmed the news we hinted at last year: he's getting the three-disc DVD set treatment.
Score one for the little guys! And no, Rey Mysterio's sixteen different DVDs don't count.
Hot on the heels of Randy Orton's "The Evolution of a Predator" set that came out a few months back and the yet-to-be released The Rock set that will come out to coincide with his WrestleMania 28 return, the WWE has greenlit a package for the "Straight Edge Messiah" himself, documenting the life and times of everyone's favorite pipe bomb dropping, booze rebuffing, Beth Phoenix lovin' Superstar.
According to Punk himself, he's in charge of the project from top to bottom. All the way from the biggest stuff like deciding who will be interviewed for the documentary portion to what matches will be included and even down to the small, inconsequential details like what music is used. He said he hated the music the WWE offered up -- something crappy "like Switchfoot" as he put it -- so the whole thing will definitely have a definitive Punk feel to it.
Colt Cobana and Danny Dominion being interviewed over H20 and Paramore jams? Are you Cagesiders ready for that?
Punk unfortunately didn't reveal when the set would be released but this early into the year, it's hard to believe we won't see it by 2012's end. What matches would you like to see on this bad boy?
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New Rule: No wrestler can have a DVD release until there career is over. I’ll pay top $ for The Rock’s. I’ll wait till CM Punk is retired to buy his DVD retrospective
Punk still has a decade as a main eventer to put memorable matches on future DVD sets.
Besides, with the exception of the Rey Mysterio DVD’s, WWE’s DVD’s have been very good at keeping off repeats.
I agree, however
I think if you are going to do multiple DVDs (which in reality they should will do. it is a business after all.) its best to do release one after a certain “era” has ended and a new one is beginning. (also so they can sell more DVDs) For example they released way too many HBK DVDs over the years in my opinion, because they were all generally the same footage, but the way they released Stone Cold’s collection in the 90’s was ideal. It was a progression..
I'd really like a Punk DVD.
Punk’s match with John Cena is one of the greatest matches of all time, and hopefully that thing will come with an alternate commentary track, because the commentary for Cena/Punk is some of the worst in WWE history.
The fact that Punk has control of this project
is enough to make me buy it. Hopefully his time with ROH & his Chick Magnet will get the time & attention they deserve.
by Sokman on Feb 2, 2012 5:38 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Somehow
I can’t picture him listening to Paramore.
He's buddy...
Buddy with homegirl on Twitter.
by Sergio Hernandez on Feb 2, 2012 5:59 PM EST up reply actions
Hayley Williams...
Has actually visited him on the set of Raw once. They’ve been friends for years now.
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If Punk likes Paramore he should hang himself.
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by 8bitDan on Feb 2, 2012 5:50 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I hope Punk gets to vent on this DVD about his absolutely terrible booking from October 2009 to May 2011 where he went 1-14 on PPV, and that’s not even counting his two Royal Rumble losses or his dark match loss at TLC 2009. If you want to include those then he is at 1-17. And he wasn’t even booked to wrestle any match at MITB 2010 (I think he was healthy and available but they simply kept him off the PPV because WWE is clueless, although if anybody knows otherwise about why Punk missed this show please let me know).
He went from World Champ and in a hot program with Jeff Hardy in August 2009 to being a jobber to Undertaker on multiple PPVs in Fall 2009, to being in a dark match at the final PPV in 2009, to being a jobber to Mysterio and Big Show for all of 2010, to being a leader of nobodies (Nexus) and still a PPV jobber for the first half of 2011.
I know wins and losses aren’t the be-all end-all, but they do matter, and it is quite amazing that Punk was able to turn that pile of shitshit around and become a main eventer. No wonder the guy wanted to leave when his contract ended.
Christ calm down. Big whoop, dudes doing fine now no need to still be butthurt over the past.
by Chris Cutrer on Feb 2, 2012 6:03 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
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by C. J. Bradford on Feb 2, 2012 6:05 PM EST up reply actions
I am calm. I said that I want to hear what Punk has to say about that unfortunate booking period. That would make for a compelling selling point for me if the DVD includes stuff like that.
Word. Seeing as how...
Orton’s overdose wasn’t glossed over in his set, Punk venting about this period might be a possibility.
by Sergio Hernandez on Feb 2, 2012 6:25 PM EST up reply actions
I doubt Punk cares at all at this point and time about how he was booked then. To be honest I didn’t mind how he was booked. He was still being heavily featured and in fact the whole SES gimmick was a main feature on Smackdown. Not that care in 2012 mind you.
Punk did his best with that savior gimmick and had several interesting moments leading the SES faction on Smackdown, but they could have done so much more with him in that time. He could have been regularly in the main event scene at that point if they fully appreciated his talent rather than being treated like a guy who talked the talk on TV but could never back it up since he lost every PPV match. He legitimately almost left the company when his contract ended in the middle of 2011. I would say that is a pretty strong sign that he felt his talents were being wasted by WWE.
Well, since he has creative control over it, it won't be revisionist WWE history, which is always appreciated
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 2, 2012 6:51 PM EST reply actions
I doubt he has complete creative control. It’s a nice thing to say in interviews to get over his rebel gimmick but I doubt he has 100% control over it.
by Chris Cutrer on Feb 2, 2012 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think people are in character on Colt's podcast
and it wouldn’t shock me if he did have 100% control of it
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by WVPiratesfan on Feb 3, 2012 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
It said,
“According to Punk himself, he’s in charge of the project from top to bottom. All the way from the biggest stuff like deciding who will be interviewed for the documentary portion to what matches will be included and even down to the small, inconsequential details like what music is used.”
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 3, 2012 6:34 PM EST up reply actions
I thought him and Beth split?
I heard that somewhere a while ago, and reading Beth’s tweets, it sorta seems something like that happened. They at least had a separation for a bit.
Beth recently tweeted
that she was looking forward to Valentine’s Day for the first time ever. So if they split, seems like they’re back together, or she’s with someone else.
what wwe should consider.....
Integrating their WWE film division into the WWE network therefore the films become original programming for the network. The wrestlers appeal to their own brand, marketing these individuals in films outside their element is the reason the division is bleeding money! (2) It also amazes me with the video libraries the WWE has why aren’t they doing wrestling themed films using wrestlers that are a part of libraries the WWE owns? Ex; Wahoo McDaniels’s story is a very interesting one that begins in WWWF in the 60’s while he’s winding down a pro football career with the NY Jets all prior to his final and biggest run in the NWA Mid Atlantic Territory, then becoming its booker. You mean to tell me a movie can’t be done about The Bruiser and Crusher who also prior to making their names in the AWA also have a connection to McMahon as they both worked for his father in the 60’s. The list of wrestlers who’s stories and wild ways would make for great WWE themed films are endless and in McMahon’s possession, they just need to find the right people to play the roles! Challenging? Perhaps! But one in which is playing to their fan base rather than alienating it!
Scott Druyan
by matz57 on Feb 3, 2012 10:58 AM EST via mobile reply actions
It’s hard enough getting people to want to watch a WWE film using traditional movie plots. You start making pro wrestling themed films about a bunch of old guys most have never heard of and they’ll do much worse financially.
by Chris Cutrer on Feb 3, 2012 4:35 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
I'd like to see...
Stuff from the ECW days, like his feud with Morrison, and also the New Bloods. I know the Cena match will be on there, but its hard to get hyped about something like that when it wasn’t even a year ago.
I think in order to get a DVD treatment you need to be in the biz for at least 10 years. Then they can cover. let’s arbitrarily. say the 1st 5 yrs.
Jericho deserves every bit of the Mysterio treatment, they both did extensive stints in other places that WWe now has the archives on. What I didn’t like so much about the Flair ones is they always take about 1/3 of it and its repeated each time. I would like to see Eddie get 5-6 sets, where its broken down into 5 year increments, that way you don’t have the same matches. Edge’s disc is hella pimp because he did so much that was different.
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by Rawuncutnxrated on Feb 3, 2012 11:07 AM EST reply actions
I wonder if his first match in ECW against Shannon Moore will be on the collection
sign of a true mark, I remember he beat Shannon Moore with the Anaconda Vice and I was hooked even though I had never heard of the guy and that was his first match and he had a promo the week before and that was all I knew about the guy.
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