SquaredCircle

Decent show, BCG vs FTR was incredible and moving Hobbs away from QTV is a good thing.

But I'm still none the wiser what on earth they are doing with Punk.

This whole "doing it for Owen" thing suggests he's being position as about as whitemeat baby face as you can possibly get, effectively making Starks the heel for the final. This was then built on more explicitly with Starks not coming down to save Punk after the match with FTR.

If Punk doesn't win, then whoever stops him is like, going against a beloved dead guy or something. Starks doesn't need that distracting from what should be one of his major achievements and elevation towards the top of the card as an extremely over face.

Conversely, Punk doesn't need to win the Owen. It doesn't raise the tournament, and it doesn't raise the guy who has already been world champ (and implies he still is with the title in the bag).

If this is all the build for a Punk turn - and like Chekov's Gun, wrestling tradition dictates that any fancy trophy must get destroyed - again he doesn't need to trash the trophy (after either winning or losing) to turn heel. Fuck, he's been heeling it up for weeks already (on commentary last week, and the "what's in the bag" stuff when he returned). Associating a tournament that is more of a real life, do a nice thing for the foundation of a nice guy who died tragically, than a wrestling storyline, and using it to turn someone feels really wrong. And not good wrong, the kind of "what the fuck are you playing at?" wrong.

Lastly, giving up Punk beating Joe in a non final, non PPV, match with minimal build feels like pure hot shotting.