So today we’ll be taking a look at the latest with CM Punk, Liv Morgan, and more
For today’s question of the day: What is the first match you’ll like to see from
CM Punk in AEW?
Let’s start things off with Liv Morgan because she’s someone that a lot of fans are discussing
right now mostly due to her absence
Liv Morgan has not made a single WWE appearance since she competed at the Money In The Bank,
going on 4 weeks ago
Smackdown is a 2 hour show, obviously you’re not going to have enough time for everyone
to be featured on the show every week, we get that, we understand that
It’s WWE, nothing really make sense most of the time, stories and pushes stop and go
all the time, it’s just chaos, everyone gets that
But for Liv Morgan to go M.I.A at the time that she did just made things a bit make weird
and hard to understand
Liv Morgan was forced to go solo after the unexpected release of her tag team partner
Ruby Riott
Liv and Ruby had their eyes set on the tag team titles, but when Ruby was released, Liv
had no choice but to enter singles competition
And just days after Ruby’s release, Liv was on Smackdown wrestling Carmella and was
given this underdog story of fighting and climbing to get into the money in the bank
match
You had that entire narrative of Sonya Deville and WWE management overlooking her and giving
Money In The Bank spots to people like Zelina Vega who hadn’t been seen in WWE for months
So it was a nice little story for Liv, here’s this baby face underdog that’s defeating
former champion Carmella, defeating the returning Zelina Vega, going on this hot streak and
eventually earning her spot into the money in the bank match
Then of course you had that talking smack interview in front of the crowd back in July
where they were going absolutely crazy for Liv Morgan
That crowd reaction even made Liv Morgan emotional right on the spot
and the reason why Liv Morgan was one of the favorites to win the money in the bank contract
in the first place was because she was really the only one in that match that had a great
story, had a great narrative, heading into that match
The rest of the women in the money in the bank just had no story for this match
Even the winner of the match Nikki Ash didn’t have that much of a narrative heading into
the match, sure Nikki was an underdog as well, but Liv just seemed to have the better overall
story there that was building up for so many weeks prior to Money in the bank
So what did WWE do with Liv Morgan after the money in the bank?
How did they capitalize on her amazing fan reaction and great underdog story?
Well she hasn’t been seen not one time since she competed in the actual Money In The Bank
match itself
And it hasn’t gone unnoticed, Liv Morgan fans and other fans have definitely brought
it to everyone’s attention online
Some fans even creating missing posters with Liv Morgan’s face on them
There’s no news of anything injury related right now with Liv Morgan, so the safe guess
is that it’s a creative issue, there’s nothing for her right now
Which again, is so strange and such a big deal considering everything that she had going
for herself before money in the bank
She was fighting back against Sonya Deville, had a small feud with Carmella, really went
back and forth with Zelina Vega for a few weeks, and of course the fan reaction to her
was growing by the week
Really felt like maybe Liv was finally starting to be used in a great way, but the ball seems
be dropped once again
Building so much story and momentum for someone like that only to completely ignore their
existence a few weeks later is what really eliminates someone’s momentum
Instead of picking up from that great Narrative they already had going, it sort of feels like
they have to start over the longer that they’re away
Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair will be the main event scene in the Smackdown women’s
division for at least the rest of the summer
But you still have Carmella and Zelina Vega hanging around, so why not let Liv Morgan
finish what she started with those two before Money In The Bank
Maybe that can build her up and help her earn her way to the title picture
Liv Morgan has never competed for a women’s championship, so she really would be a fresh
new face in the title picture, which is always a great thing to see from time to time
So we’ll see what ends up happening there, but a lot of fans are already on high alert
with Liv Morgan’s lengthy WWE absence
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It’s going to be a busy couple of months coming up for CM Punk
CM Punk is set to make his AEW debut later this Month and not only that, but he’s also
featured in the new wrestling based series “Heels” With Stephen Amell
Punk will be making a cameo appearance in the show
All of Punk’s signature tattoos were also covered with makeup for this character that
he’s playing in the show, so fans were also reacting to this non-tattooed version of CM
Punk that no one is really used to seeing, so that also caused some discussion
But Heels won’t be the only place to see CM Punk back inside the ring, he’s obviously
set to debut for AEW
Member of the WWE Hall Of Fame and iconic figure in the wrestling industry, Eric Bischoff,
recently spoke about Punk’s AEW debut on his podcast and gave advice to AEW on how
to use him
He had this to say when discussing Punk in AEW:
“In the short term, it’s going to have a major impact because I think a lot of fans
that are WWE fans are going to sample AEW who perhaps haven’t sampled AEW yet.
Punk could be the solution and the silver bullet because if WWE audience crosses over
to sample it because of a guy like CM Punk, provided you’re able to hold them and give
them something they’re committed to in the long term, then yes I think it can have a
pretty substantial impact on market share.”
“I wouldn’t put him in a hot angle right away, I wouldn’t hot shot it, I would want
to continue to build on the successful anticipation element that AEW has built upon.
I wouldn’t drag it out for 6 months but I like the idea of Punk, especially because
he can talk, coming in on commentary, stirring it up, and building upon that for a couple
of weeks and then eventually have a spontaneous combustible moment and then leads to a wrestling
storyline.
“That’s probably what I would do.
Not because Punk needs to acclimate or ring rust, those things can all be addressed.”
So Eric’s advice to AEW is to take it slow with Punk at first just to continue to thrive
off all that anticipation and hype and just drain as much as you can out of it, which
is a great point
Obviously Punk isn’t coming in fighting for the world title on his first with the
company, so if you stretch it out a bit, you can probably keep newer fans coming back every
week just to see what Punk is up to now and if he’ll wrestle or get physical this week
or next week, and just get that hype going, not for too long, but for the amount of time
that just feels right
Milk as much as you can out of CM Punk and then maybe Daniel Bryan will follow right
after that
Bray Wyatt is also freed from his 90 day no compete clause on October 29th
Bray obviously isn’t signed with AEW yet, but just assuming he was to sign with AEW,
you can have Punk dominate September and majority of October and then you got Bray coming in
for early November
So if this turns out to be true, it’s going to be a very exciting time for AEW and they
will have a lot of eyes on them if these big names do end up landing over there
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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