Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff who is the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently addressed the rumours of CM Punk returning to WWE and explained why it would not be a very good idea.
CM Punk had been one of the biggest names of the early Attitude Era of WWE and he was one of the biggest Rivals of The Mighty John Cena as well. He was on his way to become the next megastar of WWE but in early 2014, he could not settle his score with WWE anymore and decided to leave the promotion forever.
Eric Bischoff Thinks Bringing CM Punk Back To WWE Will Not Be A Good Idea
It was a huge shock for the world of professional wrestling and his fans. Everybody wanted to see him back in action again but it took more than seven years to finally seen him back in a professional wrestling ring again.
In 2021, he finally returned to action after over 7 years of absence, but this time holding the hands of The All Elite Wrestling, which is currently the biggest Rivals of WWE. It was a dream come true moment for his fans. Everybody thought that with this move, AEW will finally master WWE in no time. But the dream move of Punk to AEW could not be as good as everybody expected it would be.
Punk could not settle score in AEW either and soon he got involved in backstage fights with multiple wrestlers in the promotion. Almost nobody wanted him in the promotion anymore, not even the fans. The fan favourite wrestler is finally turning out to be one of the hated wrestlers ever. There are rumours that Triple H wants him in WWE. But this time almost nobody wanted him back in the promotion. Most of the fans have lost faith in him. But will he actually return to WWE? Only time will tell.
Eric Bischoff who is the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently spoke to WrestlingNews.co where he addressed the rumours of CM Punk returning to WWE and explained why it would not be a very good idea.
“I don’t think it would be. I think CM Punk shit the bed. When Tony Khan brought CM Punk into AEW, he still had that mystique, the pipe bomb mystique. He was this character that stood up to McMahon and then walked away. There’s a rebellious quality in that character that I think the average American admires. So Punk had this mystique and still had his fan base and Tony Khan was able to take advantage of that.”
“Over a very short period of time, that mystique began to just dissipate. It was like letting the air out of the balloon a little bit more each and every week. CM Punk came in, and you know, great ratings, and then literally the next week, started in a free fall back down to pre-Punk levels. You look at where AEW is in terms of week to week ratings, which is the only thing we have to measure that’s public because the financial information is all private.
“We don’t really hear anything about the real financial information. We just get the top line stuff. But you know, ratings are the data that we have that we can go, ‘Okay, this is where this product is going.’ Flatline. Shortly after CM Punk got there, flatline to pre-Punk levels and I think that a lot of that has to do with, people came, they were excited because of the aura and the mystique, they saw, and they went, ‘Eh, not so much. A little bit, but nothing special.’
“Then for Punk to conduct himself in the manner in which he did, I think it left a bad taste in not only the fans mouths, but why would anybody want to hire a guy that’s willing to, live, publicly disparage the guy that’s writing him a check every week?”