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on the other hand, i respect him so much for leaving and i still revere the cm punk character as a holy figure in wrestling, along with Owen Hart who physically died for wrestling’s sins and not his own. Punk is the greatest not only because he was the best performer of our generation with no one able to touch him even at the current moment, but also because he was the only wrestler to ever be smart enough to really leave wrestling and, in typical punk fashion, completely burn the bridge down in the process. the fact that he will (likely) never return is what makes him better than all the kurts, all the brets, all the hbks, and any other legend that came back with their tail between their legs. cm punk the wrestler is completely superpowered, and WWE trying to sell brock lesnar as what a superpowered wrestler “actually” looks like is another pathetic attempt from wwe at telling people how to feel. that company is dead to me for so many reasons, but seeing brock victory after brock victory and the reactions from a completely complacent audience prove that punk was right to leave. 

“In the 2016 calendar year, Brock Lesnar was WWE’s highest-paid Superstar, with a salary of $12 million per year. That year, WWE reported record revenues of $729.2 million, meaning Lesnar’s salary accounted for under 2% of WWE’s total revenues. With WWE’s new television deals for Raw and SmackDown Live, it stands to tip the scales at over one billion dollars in total revenues beyond 2019, meaning Lesnar’s $12 million salary—which is not mandated to increase with company revenues in the non-unionized WWE—would amount to a measly 1.2% of WWE’s total revenues.”

if you still support wwe and you’re not a racist idiot redneck who thinks a complete lack of health coverage, benefits, and fair salary are “american rights” or whatever I’m not sure who you’re fooling. The full article details the scope of what it means for WWE to deny their employees actual employee status with health coverage, fair compensation, or workers rights. Even beyond this company’s direct ties to a racist administration that may be moving toward an elimination of an entire race of people, as their own sports entertainment entity they are really horrible monsters even to the people who do the real work to create the content they profit off of massively.

STOP WATCHING GARBAGE PRODUCED BY GARBAGE PPL

JUST TURN IT OFF