CM Punk Megathread

Stereomaniac · 24-04-2015 3:00am

What makes FSM a safe place, compared to anywhere else? I'm guessing that some of the magazines in the U.S possibly have working arrangements with the WWE. Fair play to FSM anyway.

25-04-2015 2:03am

How many US magazines are left?

rovert · 25-04-2015 11:47pm

To be expected these days but still gas:

Stereomaniac · 26-04-2015 12:31am

So what is the breakdown of the money from the autographs at these things, is it all for Punk?

gimmick · 26-04-2015 9:32am

$50 for a scribble? Bloody hell.

D-FENS · 26-04-2015 10:41am

Any inkling as to who he might fight yet and when?

Lord TSC · 26-04-2015 11:03am

gimmick wrote: »

$50 for a scribble? Bloody hell.

Its crazy, but I guess if he's charging it, he knows it's what people will pay :eek:

jaykhunter · 26-04-2015 11:22am

gimmick wrote: »

$50 for a scribble? Bloody hell.

It's ridiculous alright. That kind of money I'd expect people selling the autograph as memorabilia for a profit. I do remember hearing of cons where Austin/Goldberg would be $100 or more.

seandotcomm · 26-04-2015 3:37pm

jaykhunter wrote: »

It's ridiculous alright. That kind of money I'd expect people selling the autograph as memorabilia for a profit. I do remember hearing of cons where Austin/Goldberg would be $100 or more.

WWE regularly charge over €100 for the VIP signings of the upper card guys at events like Axxess etc

ERG89 · 26-04-2015 4:14pm

I'd pay $50 dollars to see Ryback get an autograph off him

Mr.Nice Guy · 26-04-2015 5:55pm

I guess the 'CM' was a tribute to Charles Montgomery Burns after all.

Loughc · 26-04-2015 8:18pm

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I guess the 'CM' was a tribute to Charles Montgomery Burns after all.

Excellent.

cena · 26-04-2015 8:49pm

I would probably pay more just to chat to Austin or Taker.
Cm punk I can take or leave

The Ayatolla · 26-04-2015 10:51pm

Ara Punk is a cranky old bollocks anyway.

You wouldn't know what form he'd be in on the day you'd meet him. Be nearly half afraid to approach him if you met him on the street.

JohnMc1 · 27-04-2015 2:29pm

D-FENS wrote: »

Any inkling as to who he might fight yet and when?

Nothing yet. He's supposed to meet with Dana in June or July. I can't see him ever steeping into the Cage. Especially now that he's got Drax gig with Marvel comics.

Stereomaniac · 27-04-2015 2:33pm

He's writing a Drax comic?

JohnMc1 · 27-04-2015 2:37pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

CM Punk's first official UFC photoshoot.

http://dailywrestlingnews.com/photos-cm-punks-first-official-ufc-photoshoot/

ROFL. He looks like one of those scrawny office workers who got a truck load of crappy tattoos and bought UFC apparel just so he can take some photos of himself trying to look like a badass for his social media profiles.

Lord TSC · 27-04-2015 2:39pm

Stereomaniac wrote: »

He's writing a Drax comic?

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/c2e2-marvel-gives-cm-punk-his-first-ongoing-series-with-drax

Co-writing apparently.

JohnMc1 · 27-04-2015 2:42pm

rovert wrote: »

https://twitter.com/davemuscarella/status/570016533054947328

LOL. Which Flintstones movie is this?

Lord TSC · 27-04-2015 2:42pm

JohnMc1 wrote: »

LOL. Which Flintstones movie is this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones_%26_WWE:_Stone_Age_SmackDown!

JohnMc1 · 27-04-2015 2:43pm

Lord TSC wrote: »

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/c2e2-marvel-gives-cm-punk-his-first-ongoing-series-with-drax

Co-writing apparently.

In other words. The other writer will do all the work while Punk gets all the credit.

JohnMc1 · 27-04-2015 2:56pm

Lord TSC wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones_%26_WWE:_Stone_Age_SmackDown!

Thanks Lord TSC. I'll look it up.

the groutch · 27-04-2015 7:51pm

JohnMc1 wrote: »

In other words. The other writer will do all the work while Punk gets all the credit.

so just like every Bray Wyatt match then.

JohnMc1 · 27-04-2015 8:01pm

the groutch wrote: »

so just like every Bray Wyatt match then.

LOL. If Punk is still training full time to fight in the UFC I imagine that co writer will be doing the bulk of the writing. Punk might help develop the overall plots but the co writer will be left to write everything else.

Palo Alto · 27-04-2015 8:29pm

It's a win-win scenario. Punk's name increases circulation, the writer gets published to a greater degree.

It's what's best for business.

Stereomaniac · 28-04-2015 2:44am

Lord TSC wrote: »

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/c2e2-marvel-gives-cm-punk-his-first-ongoing-series-with-drax

Co-writing apparently.

Well, fair play to him for getting in on it all the same. He's keeping his name out.

brassringclub · 15-06-2015 5:29pm

Punk is out of retirement to take a spear and an elbow from Frank Turner

Furious-Red · 15-06-2015 5:36pm

brassringclub wrote: »

Punk is out of retirement to take a spear and an elbow from Frank Turner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IZbCl6iR4

the groutch · 15-06-2015 7:03pm

love how they're doing it in a boxing ring, and Punk doing a "2012 Lesnar" and not doing a single wrestling move.

Stereomaniac · 16-06-2015 2:58am

I'm sure that will really have a negative impact on the career of Frank Turner going forward.

rovert · 30-06-2015 4:24pm

$95 for CM Punk's Official Reebok Jersey but it doesn't say CM Punk:

https://twitter.com/SandhuMMA/status/615899882352607232

Part the generic uniforms UFC fighters will have to wear from now on.

LeeJM · 30-06-2015 4:45pm

Wonder will Punk moan and b*tch about the UFC's dress code seeing as he had a hissy fit over WWE's a couple of years ago.

Palo Alto · 30-06-2015 4:51pm

No, no he won't.

jaykhunter · 30-06-2015 4:56pm

I'm surprised he's not doing the Rock's schtick of gradually transitioning names - first calling himself CM Punk, then Phil "CM Punk" Brooks, then Phil Brooks.

ERG89 · 30-06-2015 5:02pm

LeeJM wrote: »

Wonder will Punk moan and b*tch about the UFC's dress code seeing as he had a hissy fit over WWE's a couple of years ago.

If he's one of the individual Reebok sponsored fighters he won't. I imagine he will be. Its a nice $5 shirt tbf

LeeJM · 30-06-2015 5:36pm

Lads it was a joke based off the fact that Punk is a renowned whiner and could have an arguement in an empty room!

Professional Griefer · 03-07-2015 4:21am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGe21q7lmNk

:pac:

Just a little Samba · 03-07-2015 4:32am

when we go to the football games, nobody is pulling us out and taking pictures of us, why aren't they doing that?

Well Mr. Diaz, because compared to NFL the UFC is literally nothing. There are NFL player who make more in a year than the entire income of the UFC organisation.
Now that might not be fair and it might be backward, but people like Jay Cutter are on 125million dollar contracts, plus spinserships. The UFC isn't anywhere near that level. In the real world nobody gives a damn who you are.

Eat your humble pie, take your PR opportunities whenever NFL, NBA or MLS players bother to show up at your fights and make hay while the sun shines.

Reebrock · 05-07-2015 2:29pm

Nate Diaz has ensured additional $ for Punk's debut fight.

Agent Coulson · 05-07-2015 3:20pm

Anyone think Punk will never set foot inside a UFC cage?

ricero · 05-07-2015 3:45pm

jasus Diaz must of had a few to many knocks to the head by the sounds of him

Tssk · 05-07-2015 6:12pm

Punk has just moved to Milwaukee to be closer to one of his trainers.I think he will fight but it might be next year. That Diaz video is quite old also. Think he now trains with one of his many initial detractors so he is earning some respect among the fighters.

Professional Griefer · 05-07-2015 8:28pm

Tssk wrote: »

Punk has just moved to Milwaukee to be closer to one of his trainers.I think he will fight but it might be next year. That Diaz video is quite old also. Think he now trains with one of his many initial detractors so he is earning some respect among the fighters.

That would be a shame, when they announced he joined did they say he would fight towards the end of 2015?

Mellor · 06-07-2015 3:10am

Just a little Samba wrote: »

There are NFL player who make more in a year than the entire income of the UFC organisation.

No there aren't.

NFL players make more than fighter of course, but claiming they make more than the entire UFC is absurd.

Now that might not be fair and it might be backward, but people like Jay Cutter are on 125million dollar contracts, plus spinserships. The UFC isn't anywhere near that level.

That was his total salary over his whole 7 years contract. His annual salary is $18 million.

The UFC does about $500million.

Just a little Samba · 06-07-2015 3:32am

Mellor wrote: »

No there aren't.

NFL players make more than fighter of course, but claiming they make more than the entire UFC is absurd.

That was his total salary over his whole 7 years contract. His annual salary is $18 million.

The UFC does about $500million.

By the "organisation" I meant fighters. Cutler makes 18million before sponserships and bonuses and even if he never plays another game he is gaurenteed 57million of that 126million.

The top 10 earning fighters in the UFC only made a little over 1/3rd of that between them.

The point of the post was that in reality people like Mr. Diaz should be thankful that NBA or NFL players even waste their time letting him take a picture with them which will then be plastered all over the internet and sports media, raising his profile and giving him exposure. They are several levels above his paygrade,

The smallest stadium in the NFL seats 52,000 people with an average regular season tv audience of 17million people. The Super Bowel this year had the highest TV viewership of all time in the US with 120million people watching left shark do his thang and Tom Brady being Tom Brady again.

Pissing and moaning because the players on the biggest show in world sport aren't making a fuss over you when go their games is childish nonsense.

The UFC has a gross income of just under 500million, of which it kept little over half between paying off their debt, the cut of PPV due to tv stations and paying for venues/event staff/etc.

The NLF is oncourse to have a conbimed income of over 10billion dollars this year and is projected to reach 20 within 10 years.

The UFC is never, ever, ever going to be on that level.

Mellor · 06-07-2015 4:37am

Just a little Samba wrote: »

By the "organisation" I meant fighters. Cutler makes 18million before sponserships and bonuses and even if he never plays another game he is gaurenteed 57million of that 126million.

If you meant fighters, thats a different story but organisation means something different.
Regardless he still doesn't make more than all fighters combined.

The top 10 earning fighters in the UFC only made a little over 1/3rd of that between them.

No they didn't. The top earning fighters earn PPV bonus, which dwarf their salary. GSP made 12 million in 2013 (his last two fights)

No single fighter makes as much as Cutler, and they won't anytime soon, but it's simply not true that he makes more than the entire roster. Even before you add up salaries, the "of the night" bonus are worth about $9 million a year alone (45 shows x 200k per show).

The point of the post was that in reality people like Mr. Diaz should be thankful that NBA or NFL players even waste their time letting him take a picture with them which will then be plastered all over the internet and sports media, raising his profile and giving him exposure. They are several levels above his paygrade,

Yup, I don't disagree with you point. The NFL dwarfs the UFC.
I was just pointing out the massive exaggeration regarding the top players earning more the the entire roster.

diusmr8a504cvk · 08-07-2015 11:58pm

A CM Punk training video was released:

He is also taking part in the UFC Ulti-Man 5K race this Saturday:
https://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/617383521498304512/photo/1

grames_bond · 09-07-2015 8:53am

Making friends before Conor's fight

https://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/618972487607521280

gimmick · 09-07-2015 9:27am

I know the guy in the middle. He has another pic on facebook with the biggest smile a man has ever had.

hufpc8w3adnk65 · 09-07-2015 12:26pm

Seen that on snapchat this morning! I know the 4 of them! Can tell you one of them posts here a bit too!

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