CM Punk: It’s A Secret Rule That You Can Go Long On A Segment If It’s Really, Really Good
CM Punk gives a secret rule in wrestling.
WWE will pull back the curtain even more beginning on July 29th with WWE Unreal, a new docuseries on Netflix that takes fans behind the scenes.
WWE shows are timed out and have marks to hit with commercial breaks, sponsor plugs, and an end time, but that doesn’t mean segments might not always hit their time.
“It’s one of the secret rules. As long as it’s really, really good, you can get away with it. Going 20 minutes over and you suck, that’s no good,” CM Punk told Josh Lawless of SportBible. “I don’t want to cut into anyone else’s segment and there’s a lot of times I have X amount of time for something and I don’t think I need all that time, I’ll just go out there and go short. I would rather go short than long. If Rhea [Ripley] is in the next segment, I can nudge here and be like, ‘Hey, you guys need two minutes? I can give you two minutes’.
“That’s the way a lot of the talent work together. I know there is a lot of Bloodline segments or stuff with The Rock, when it’s really good and the crowd’s going absolutely banana for it – you can’t really rush through it. The overseas crowds, they love to sing and they love their soccer chants. You want the fans to react and don’t want to step on that because that makes the moment special.”
While making the media rounds to promote WWE Unreal, Punk gave his thoughts on the series. You can see what he had to say here.
