Dave Meltzer via WOR: CM Punk was interested in being in this years G1


(paywalled) mentioned @15:00 https://youtu.be/wB6mAE384Xw

25 comments
  1. Pretty sure he’d crumble off a Tsuji Spear, let alone if he worked with someone like Ospreay or Shingo.

  2. Uhuh, I bet he was.

    To quote a great philosopher “Fragile Ego, Fragile Body, Weak Mind, Weak Spirit”

  3. One Pumping Bomber and Punk’s body would have goo-ified like that toxic waste dude at the end of Robocop.

  4. I’d love to see Punk in the G1, just don’t know if his body can handle it anymore unfortunately.

  5. House of Torture doing that 3 man dick chop to him if he ever stepped foot in there like they did to Okada would turn them face so hard over here.

  6. I like Punk, but his body isn’t in the shape necessary for a G1, prior to the nagging injuries in his AEW run I would’ve been open to this, but now I’m not.

  7. The same guy who was just complaining about being chopped during his match with HoB on Collison?? Oh yeah, he would’ve been GREAT in the G1.

  8. I don’t doubt that he’d bring attention to the G1 due to name value.

    But I have a hard time imagining him being able to physically handle it. The G1 is gruelling and he’s been rather injury prone as of late.

  9. Punk is more or less the reason why Collision exists, there’s no way the network guys would be cool with him being gone for a couple months.

    He’d also be one of the biggest names in that G1, so he’d likely have to be slotted in a lot of main event matches. The guy can wrestle every week, but one TV match is not the same as 2-4 big G1 matches in a week. Like others have said, Father time is catching up with the guy.

    I’d go out on a limb and assume it was just an idea he floated, nothing serious. Then wrestling journalists started inflating it into something bigger.

  10. Dude gets injured every 5 matches. He would be dead facing any of the strong style fuckers.

  11. Just imagine Ospreay kicks him like Naito and has to somehow carry unconscious punk into position to GTS himself lol

  12. Punk you had years, FUCKING YEARS to go wrestle in Japan. This dude fell on his ass trying to do a buckshot TWICE and you telling me he wants to do the G1?

  13. Alvarez said he heard Punk wanted to do Blood and Guts, but thinks Tony said no.

    Meltzer paraphrased: I heard that too but it made no sense. It was like the story that he was interested in G1. I heard that and was like….he’s not doing G1. It would defeat the whole purpose (-not sure what he meant-), and it wouldn’t be a good idea anyway. Business wise it makes no sense.

  14. Punk took one stuff elbow from Hangman and thought he was conspiring to injury him, if he does a G1 he is going to think all of New Japan is trying to kill him.

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