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WWE SummerSlam 2011: Why CM Punk Will Shock the World and Jolt John Cena
On August - 6 - 2011
To be honest, the title of this piece is a bit of a misnomer. Punk won't shock the world, exactly; he'll just continue to shock the world as he has been doing to such incredible effect for the past six weeks.That is, if anything Punk does now can constitute a "shock." When you're expecting the unexpected, and the man has that "pipe bomb" in his hand, are you going to be shocked by anything?Linguistic knots aside, he's going to unify the titles at SummerSlam.For starters, he's the rightful title holder. I don't care how much they try to make me ...
WWE SmackDown: What Next for the Men from the Corre? Spoilers from Friday Night
On April - 23 - 2011
I think it's fairly safe to say that we are seeing the end-times of the Corre. They've been used basically as Keystone Cops villains for the past few months, running on for two minutes and getting booed, being thoroughly squashed at WrestleMania in a match that may well have lasted less time than the pointless Snooki-fest, and now the tension is showing.It wasn't always like this, of course. Once upon a time Wade Barrett got to menace his way round the WWE, while his acolytes (particularly Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel) snickered behind him. But as Barrett keeps reminding us, ...