Seriously? What face would come out and say "Good! I'm glad you suspended Punk! He criticized me and you, so instead of kicking his ass, I'm going to fight somebody else. Thanks, Vince!"
I take it you've never seen a worked shoot before. The whole premis of the worked shoot is this guy went off the rails, this guy went off the script and this guy went into business for himself. Granted they fucked it up from the get go(Or rather gave it that McMahon touch) they could have still salvaged it. They didn't. They buried it and once again tried to get Cena over with the IWC and adult fans by putting all the spotlight on him.
The reality is logic dictates Cena had not have said anything. No vignettes of the "shoot" should have been aired(I mean CM Punk is suspended for going off script and shooting yet you're airing the promo every few minutes?) at all. It should have been Michael Cole now breaking character in a deeper voice simply stating "there was an incident last week on Raw and Phil Brooks who performs as C.M. Punk has been suspended from the WWE. Vince McMahon will be out NEXT to issue an apology to the fans."
Boom, Vince comes out and cuts a promo. Last week there was an incident, yadda yadda, the WWE doesn't condone such actions, Phillip Brooks has been suspended until further notice, again we apologize, blah blah blah, we will be having a #1 contenders match for the PPV and you will get your moneys worth.
Later on here comes CM Punk through the crowd to a front row seat he purchased himself wearing an ROH or NJPW t-shirt. We briefly see it but they try to ignore Punk who keeps raising hell during a match, one thing leads to another, out comes Cena dressed out of character, the camera pans to Cena who goes after Punk but security holds them back and keeps Punk behind the barricade, Cena jumps into the ring and cuts his own worked shoot(if he can) on Punk, Vince comes back out, heated words are exchanged among the three, cut to black. Then announce via WWE.con and on next weeks show Punk has agreed to put up a $100,000 bond guaranteeing he won't take the belt to ROH or NWJP in the event he wins it and McMahon has lifted the suspension for one night only.
Or since Punk "went off script" last week Vince and security could have came out in the middle of it as Cena stopped kayfabing a rib injury in the ring and took off up the ramp after Punk.
It doesn't make sense for you that Cena doesn't want to be known for kissing Vince's ass? That he'd rather do the real "face" thing and stand up for what's right?
In what fucking galaxy is it the "right thing to do" for the FACE OF THE COMPANY(literally) to come out and defend the guy who supposedly just went off script on the previous Raw and trashed the entire company that Cena represents?
Cena IS the WWE, Vince made sure of that a long time ago. Punk "went off script" and called Cena an asskisser then trashed the product Cena represents. Only in WWE faboy world does it make sense for Thug Opie to come out and go "aww golly gee paw, C.M. Punk has the right to trash me and this company, it's his freedom of speech(even though you waive freedom of speech when you're contractually obligated to perform a character and are being paid to follow corporate guidelines in the workplace), shucks Mr. McMahon can't we give Mr. Punk his job back? It sure would be swell to perform this contest of respect at the PPV."
Unbelievable, a worked shoot geared towards 5 year olds. I truly have seen it all in the
Wrestling sports "entertainment" business now. The only thing left for Vince to do is have them do the one armed buddy hug up the ramp after the match. Well that and have Lil' Jimmy knock out Punk with cotton candy costing him the match.
If you want to believe that they fucked this up, cool, but at least they didn't go the TNA route and just make the entire thing so convoluted that you don't know what's going on.
1: TNA has nothing to do with, stop deflecting.
2: TNA wouldn't have fucked this up to the level Vince McMahon did, to quote his theme song "no chance in
hell heck." But nice try. Btw, who gave a failed actor a run as World Champ again? Who was it that built up an entertaining heel for over a month only to job him to a fucking cup of water? Who was it that just took a very good worked shoot and turned it into the face of their franchise lobbying for the mega heel to golly gee, get his job back pawpaw? Answer: It isn't TNA.
3: Notice how last week even TNA fans were excited over the Punk promo and thought it was good? Yeah, someone who is a TNA fan bashing it has ZERO to do with TNA, it has to do with the WWE taking a good thing and fucking it up. We're not bashing it because it is the WWE(we'll leave that to you WWE fanboys who can't admit anything good about the competition), we're bashing it because we actually invested ourselves into seeing where it would go and enjoying part one. We're pissed it was flushed down the toilet and we're not going to sit here smiling while fed shit just because it's the WWE, like a few people in this thread.