CM Punk Says He Never Broke Kayfabe With Pipe Bomb Promo
CM Punk says he never broke kayfabe with his famous 2011 “Pipe Bomb.” Instead, he believes that the fact that there are still so many people who see it that way is a tribute to what he was able to do that night on WWE Raw. He also feels his famous promo is misunderstood.
CM Punk is a focal point of the new WWE Unreal series on Netflix. That series pulls back the curtain on the creative process of WWE more than any other project has previously. Punk considers himself to be an old-school guy, but believes he is able to utilize whatever new tools are at his disposal to continue telling the best story on television. A good example of Punk using realistic issues in the context of a storyline is present in his famous 2011 “Pipe Bomb” promo.
Speaking with Allenownz Wrasslin, CM Punk was asked about how modern fans see that as one of the first times the curtain was ever pulled back for them. Punk then said he feels he never broke kayfabe with that promo because everything he said was still in character.
He compared it to the Curtain Call from 1996, where Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash all hugged each other at the end of a live event in Madison Square Garden, despite having wrestled each other that very night.
“So this is all going to come down to perspective, and I think this is probably going to reveal, and this is going to sound super egotistical, but the genius of what the Pipe Bomb was. I did not expose anything. You juxtapose it with the Curtain Call, which was 100% I mean, that pissed off Gerry Brisco. You shouldn’t piss off Gerry Brisco. I would be curious to have anybody try to explain to me how those two things are similar, because they’re drastically, drastically different, right? I took what I knew smart fans to think was taboo, and said things on television that nobody had ever said before in a context within a storyline, right? I did not beat anybody over the head with exposing the business. I wasn’t fraternizing with a good guy when I was a bad guy or vice versa. That, to me, proves how powerful a moment of what I did was, because it’s still almost misunderstood.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Punk discussed what it means to him to be trusted by the writers’ room at WWE. Read his comments here.
Fans can learn more about the stories coming out of WWE Unreal here.
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