Maybe CM Punk can Draw

[FitFinlay4Life]

I think the problem with the buy rate was that no one could foresee what was going to happen.

The Shield versus Ryback & Hell No in a TLC match (that wasn't a TLC match but a hardcore match with tables, ladders and chairs lying around) was a bout that, to the casual fan, featured 3 unknowns, 2 guys that don't exactly lend themselves to the highspots the term brings to mind and Daniel Bryan.

John Cena versus Dolph Ziggler in a traditional TLC match was always going to struggle to raise interest for one very simple reason - Ziggy has been Cena's bitch for years, why should this PPV have been any different?

The only other bout on the card that was likely to garner any interest at all was the WHC bout between Big Show and Sheamus but this belt has been treated so poorly in recent times that, even the sterling work the two combatants had put in at the previous two PPVs, could persuade anybody to view this as anything other than a midcard match. The time when either of the World belts could headline any given PPV has become an all-to distant memory.

Trying to lay the poor buyrate on the exclusion of Punk is a stretch because, had he been fit, he would have had a rematch against Ryback and their HiaC bout wasn't exactly going to have people diving into their wallets again.

 

[BaconBits]

I heard he can paint like a muhfucka too.

 

[Papa Pillman]

All I will say is Summerslam 2011 with Punk main eventing got a TERRIBLE buyrate of 296K. Good thing Brock returned it back to Summerslam standards in 2012.

All I will say is that by SummerSlam '11 Punk had only been pushed to full-fledged main eventer for a couple of months(not counting his time main eventing on Smackdown, which we all know isn't really "main eventing"). That match included Cena as the opponent and Triple H as the referee, both who have been headliners long before Punk joined the company. If anything the low buyrate should reflect on them far more than it should Punk, as WWE was clearly positioning them to keep the buys up while they worked to establish Punk.

In fact, couple SummerSlam's somewhat low buyrate that year with Survivor Series low buyrate despite the fact the Rock was in the main event as well, and recognize that the common denominator is Cena, and we should clearly deduct that it is Cena who should be shouldering the bulk of the blame for those disapointing buyrates. Yet someone would still try to spin it on Punk? Typical.

 

[Y-2-Jay]

All I will say is that by SummerSlam '11 Punk had only been pushed to full-fledged main eventer for a couple of months(not counting his time main eventing on Smackdown, which we all know isn't really "main eventing"). That match included Cena as the opponent and Triple H as the referee, both who have been headliners long before Punk joined the company. If anything the low buyrate should reflect on them far more than it should Punk, as WWE was clearly positioning them to keep the buys up while they worked to establish Punk.

In fact, couple SummerSlam's somewhat low buyrate that year with Survivor Series low buyrate despite the fact the Rock was in the main event as well, and recognize that the common denominator is Cena, and we should clearly deduct that it is Cena who should be shouldering the bulk of the blame for those disappointing buyrates. Yet someone would still try to spin it on Punk? Typical.

Survivor Series outdrew Summerslam that year though?

 

[Danger Burger]

You know what draws? WWE Title matches.

 

[BaconBits]

You know what draws? WWE Title matches.

I use Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw. Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Flexi-Sign. I make beautiful pictures with them.

 

[Danger Burger]

I use Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw. Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Flexi-Sign. I make beautiful pictures with them.

 

[cult_of_icecream_bar]

Nice Joke.