| CM Punk Takes Credit For Coming Up With The Shield |
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CM Punk wants to face one member of The Shield on the final Raw of 2013
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Former WWE Superstar CM Punk took credit for the idea of The Shield in a two-hour interview with his close friend Colt Cabana on Cabana's "Art of Wrestling" podcast.
However, Punk says the idea was for a trio of Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Chris Hero (Kassius Ohno in WWE Developmental). Instead, Punk says Triple H shot down Hero, who was replaced by "their guy," Roman Reigns.
Punk was frustrated with management at the time, but decided it was not going to be his hill to die on pushing for Hero. Punk said he understood that WWE had big plans for Reigns and he figured it was a chance for Reigns to learn and grow working with Rollins and Ambrose.
Punk also noted that the original storyline idea was for The Shield to be paired with him as his protectors. However, that also did not materialize.
Punk noted this was part of his frustration with the creative direction of WWE, as he wanted to face The Rock and John Cena in a three-way match if the plan was for him to drop the title. Instead, he dropped the title to The Rock at the 2013 Royal Rumble, then WWE booked Cena vs. Rock on-one to complete the story of their feud.
Punk was shifted to a match with The Undertaker, but he noted he was left without anything for after Mania once Taker left. Punk noted that his idea gave him wrestlers to work with after Mania, as he would have shifted into a program with the Shield members after dropping the title.
Here is exactly what Punk said, "So, and this, I don't know, this will probably blow some people's minds and then some people will be like 'oh, you're full of shit' but I don't fucking care either way: The Shield was my idea. What happened was, at the time the head writer was Eric Pankowski. He called me up one day and he was like 'okay, uh, nobody knows you're going to turn heel but we want to stick a stable with you. We want to give you Big Show as your heater.' I immediately groaned. I love Big Show to death but that's not a good idea. They wanted to put Daniel Bryan with me. I groaned. I said 'Daniel should be kept as far away from me as possible because, if anything, me and him should be like Bret (Hart) and Shawn (Michaels). We can be far apart and then we can come together when you guys need a fucking program for two or three PPVs, and we can always do it, and it will always be quality. There idea was a stable with me, Big Show, Daniel Bryan, and the only name they ever mentioned was Seth Rollins but they kept saying 'a guy from FCW.' So I went to Pankowski and I was like 'I don't like the idea. I'm willing to do the heel stable thing but why don't we pick three guys from FCW that are ready instead of using two guys, you know what I mean? They would just be treading water. Who cares? How many times are these guys going to turn?
"So I took the idea to Hunter, I took it to Vince, they agreed. Vince was immediately like 'who do you have in mind?' And I said '(Dean) Ambrose, Rollins, Chris Hero, or Kassius Ohno.' Hunter shot down Hero. They wanted Roman Reigns. They came to me and they were like 'what about Leakee?' I didn't... it wasn't my hill to die on. I said 'sure' because it made sense to me. Oh, they want their guy in, he's the pretty guy, but that's good because this guy can learn from working under me. The idea was they were supposed to be my group. Things fucking change. They like to take other people's ideas, make it their own idea, and then tout how awesome they are. So it then became Hunter's idea and up until the PPV they were like 'oh, we were told we might not be with you.' And I was like 'this whole entire time you're supposed to be with me' because the idea was they're with me, they're with me, they're with me, I go on to fight Undertaker, and then I have these three guys to work with after WrestleMania. ... I pitched all that, they loved it, things got changed, I didn't really care. Those three guys got called up, they're all fucking doing fantastic right now, mazel tov to them."
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