Pound pound pound
According to WrestleZone.com (a site which, I admit, I visit about once every 30 years and 11 months), WWE is preparing to push CM Punk to the moon. I mean, a WrestleMania main event would be ideal, but the moon is OK, too.
The company wants to find ways to capitalize on the CM Punk popularity. Talk of WWE Studos looking for projects for him also a possibility of a CM Punk book because the WWE has decreased the amount of books they have put out recently. More CM Punk merchandise is expected along with a big part of WWE’s plan in 2012. CM Punk will be heavily featured in pay-per-views and all WWE programming.
Punk is pretty much the No. 2 merchandise seller right now behind John Cena, which goes to show, if you make decent looking merch that doesn’t have childish images referring to “chick magnet” or throwing a “killswitch,” you might sell a T-shirt or two. Based on past Tweets, Punk would probably jump at the chance to act in movies, but his book would likely be a graphic novel instead of a seedy tell-all (and given the amount of locker-room vag he’s pounded, he’s got plenty to tell). Giving him more time on TV and pay-per-view makes perfect sense, until you consider that his logical opponent right now is the charisma-less Alberto del Rio, which is analogous to having 1997 Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestle Rockabilly. So while WWE’s intentions are good (assuming this WrestleZone Web site knows its ass from a hole in the ground), they still have other ducks to place in their appropriate rows. -Eric
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