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CM Punk is set to challenge ‘The Ring General’ Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Summerslam event and this is the first time that Summerslam will be a two night show much like WrestleMania for the last six occasions. Rumors have it that Punk and Gunther will main event night 1 of Summerslam.
Punk maintained his main event status ever since returning to WWE. He has challenged for the World title a number of times but he is yet to win it since his return. He also had some amazing rivalries with the likes of Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre. He even main evented the night 1 of WrestleMania 41.
CM Punk explains how to go over time on segments in WWE
A number of weeks ago, he earned the right to challenge Gunther for the World Heavyweight title and it looks like the fans can expect to see a big rivalry between the two. Recently, CM Punk spoke with SPORTbible where he discussed a lot of things including how to go over time on segments in WWE. He explained the following;
CM Punk is considered one of the best mic workers in wrestling
“It’s one of the secret rules. As long as it’s really, really good, you can get away with it. Going 20 minutes over and you suck, that’s no good. I don’t want to cut into anyone else’s segment and there’s a lot of times I have X amount of time for something and I don’t think I need all that time," Punk continued,
"I’ll just go out there and go short. I would rather go short than long. If Rhea [Ripley] is in the next segment, I can nudge here and be like, ‘Hey, you guys need two minutes? I can give you two minutes.'”
CM Punk will challenge Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship at Summerslam
“That’s the way a lot of the talent work together. I know there is a lot of Bloodline segments or stuff with The Rock, when it’s really good and the crowd’s going absolutely banana for it – you can’t really rush through it. The overseas crowds, they love to sing and they love their soccer chants. You want the fans to react and don’t want to step on that because that makes the moment special.”
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CM Punk is doing an excellent job even at the age of 46 and it can be expected that he will remain on top for a long time in WWE. Since Summerslam is the biggest stage in WWE after WrestleMania, and this is also the first two night Summerslam event, we can expect some big things including the long awaited World title win of Punk.
