Former WWE writer Court Bauer was recently a guest on the Wrestling INC podcast. Bauer was promoting the upcoming: MLW: One Shot event that will be taking place in October.

During the podcast Bauer was asked about who was responsible for bringing in CM Punk to WWE. It turns out that it was actually John Laurinaitis that signed him:

“John Laurinaitis signed him, he thought it was a good get. He was assigned to OVW and there were a few different ideas to bring him in”

One of these gimmicks involved Punk, Mickie James and a rocker gimmick:

“One of those ideas was to bring him in as an 80s almost like a rockers – just like a 80s rocker gimmick and he was going to be paired with Mickie James at first. Almost like a real babyface high-five, big smile wear 80s rock gear stuff.”

This obviously didn’t happen and instead Punk made his way to WWE’s version of ECW. Thankfully it played out this way and not with Punk as a rocker……

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