Your Midweek Links: Don't Rush Punk, Yo

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It's hump day, so here are some links to help get you through the rest of the week!

Self-Shilling:

- The Wrestling Podcast with my buddy Tom Kingsmill! If you can get by the audio problems, it's a rollicking good listen. [Episode 12: I Am Not a Fashion Nugget]

- My Camel Clutch Blog piece this week, on why Cena vs. Rock should be sans title [John Cena vs. The Rock, No WWE Championship Required]

- My Fair to Flair piece, or what if we look at Money in the Bank as a resolution? [CM Punk's Happy Ending]

Wrestling Links:

- Everything's amazing and no one's happy... the story of the Internet Wrestling Community [Hitting the Mark]

- More on fans bitching about the angle being "rushed" [Fair to Flair]

- Even more discussion about Punk being "rushed", and in the interest of fairness, the verdict is that maybe it was too soon [South Atlanta Wrestling]

- Razor's RAW live blog [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]

- The Best and Worst of RAW for this week [With Leather]

- CM Punk can thank Shawn Michaels for being in his corner and helping him overcome Vince McMahon's bias against anyone he didn't create [I Want Wrestling]

- CM Punk and Chuck Tayler: Kindred Spirits [PizzaBodySlam]

- Bill Simmons' controversial picks for best theme music ever [Grantland]

- Madison Rayne has thin skin [Camel Clutch Blog]

- Maryse has a stalker. I'd make a joke about it being Brandon Stroud, but this seems pretty serious, in all actuality. [Diva Dirt]

- Trey Irby FJMing Observer Radio. God bless him for this, because transcribing the audio is a lot harder than just bolding stupid printed word. [Wrestling Theory]

- The Young Bucks respond to RVD talking shit about them. In other news, RVD talking shit about any wrestler should be a war crime. Dude sucks. [Cageside Seats]

- 10 questions with SHIMMER head honcho Dave Prazak [Dirty Dirty Sheets]

- The EVOLVE Interview [Wrestlegasm]

- The Best of Tyler Black DVD review [The Harrison Analysis]

- Rocky confirms he'll be at Survivor Series. I don't care what you say, I'm psyched. [Camel Clutch Blog]

- Another Rey Mysterio defender [Grapple Kingdom]

- I just ruined Barry Windham for you forever. [PizzaBodySlam Tumblr]

- Macho Man and ComiCon [Kentucky Fried Rasslin]

- K Sawyer Paul toots his own horn about predictions [Footnotes of Wrestling]

- The Miz is your #1 in the PWI 500 for last year [PWI]

- Things Cameron Riley missed over the weekend [Musings of a Mark]

Jamie Dobson Interviews:

- Overview on QWEST Wrestling

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Best use of the periodic table ever [Buzz Feed]

- Dan Snyder fires official team blogger. Par for the course! [Mr. Irrelevant]

- No more lockout! Drew Magary doles out some FUCK YOUs in honor of said occasion. [Deadspin]

- Best.Facebook.Status.Ever [The Imgur Gallery]

- SAWCE FROM SAN FRANCISCO [Epic Meal Time]

- Precious, based off the Novel Push by JRR Tolkien [Videogum]

- Plugin tracks Facebook time. [Mashable]

- 13 Things You Didn't Know about Saved by the Bell [Unreality Mag]

- In defense of black humor, re: Amy Winehouse's death [Camel Clutch Blog]

- How to get your parents to buy you a video game if you're a girl [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]

- House of PUNTE featuring Chris Kluwe of the Vikings. Yes, he's their punter. Yes, he's being interviewed by Monday Morning Punter of KSK. HOW'S THAT FOR META, BITCHES? (It's also really good) [House of PUNTE]

- Vince Mancini of Film Drunk was at ComiCon. Here's day 2 of his photo diary, including more Slave Leia cosplayers than you can shake a stick at [Film Drunk]

- ComiCon toy roundup! [Topless Robot]

- ComiCon Corgi Friday Cosplay! [Warming Glow]

- Zoo with Roy realigns the American League [I Want to Go to the Zoo with Roy Halladay]

- Review of Captain America: The First Avenger [Blast-o-Rama]

- The Summer 2011 State of the Web Address [The Oatmeal]

- 6 diseases that have become trendy, or why anyone who doesn't have celiac disease and demands gluten-free foods should be punched in the face [Cracked]

- Captain Canuck's getting his own film... uh, who? [Gamma Squad]

- Heisman promotional mailers! [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- Matt Ufford's best mailbag in ages, and those are his words, not mine! [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- Isaiah Mustafa vs. Fabio... in what, I'm not exactly sure. [Uproxx]

- NFL players thank the fans for enduring the lockout. Imagine how much longer and even more impassioned this video would have been if they had actually missed a game [Hugging Harold Reynolds]

- Even if Terrelle Pryor didn't leave school, he wasn't playing for Ohio State next year, it turns out [Dr. Saturday]

- 5 baseball trades that should happen [The Smoking Section]

- Ranking the best right wingers in the NHL for next season. That's a forward position, not a ranking of the top conservatives on Twitter in hockey. [Puck Daddy]

- Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari broke up. *sad* [With Leather]

Wrestling Six Packs: Best WWE Theme Songs Right Now

Punk just doesn't have bad theme songs
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So, CM Punk just debuted a new theme song, presumably, that is. I love "Cult of Personality", and I think it fits him as a theme song, although I wouldn't put it in the top 6 of theme songs in WWE right now. Which ones would I? I THOUGHT YOU'D NEVER ASK. NOTE: Of course, number one would have been Edge, but he retired, so he's disqualified.


1. Alberto del Rio



I don't know what it is about the mariachi theme, but it's so well done. Maybe it's that I don't expose myself to a lot of mariachi/Mexican brass. Maybe it's because it fits del Rio so much. Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good horn section. I don't know. But this is my favorite theme in WWE right now.

2. CM Punk/Killswitch Engage



Let's get it out of the way right now. "Cult of Personality" is the better song, no matter what my Twitter followers may say. However, I think this song fits Punk better. I don't know, it might be my Pavlovian reflexes kicking in, just hearing that opening riff and thinking, damn, Punk's gonna come out and yell "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME", but yeah, "Cult" is going to take a little getting used to after hearing this one a million times and then some.

3. Beth Phoenix



Even if all the other Divas theme songs weren't utter rubbish, making this sound like the song Tenacious D wrote "Tribute" about, I'd still love this song. It has that really cool Mellotron-sounding keyboard intro that gives Phoenix that special aura that she has as the presently undisputed War Queen of the Divas (until Kharma gets back, that is). Then the guitar riff that comes up afterwards is just bad ass.

4. Sheamus



Is this song on here because it's become a meme? (Shameful thing lobster head, too many limes)... maybe. Despite it being a transparent attempt at marrying nü-metal with Irish conceits, I dig it, even if I wasn't shouting TOO MANY LIMES, TOO MANY LIMES at it.

5. Daniel Bryan



You don't mess with the classics. Bryan's theme song makes him the heir to Ric Flair (Also Sprach Zarathrusta) and Randy Savage (Pomp and Circumstance), and yet it gives him a different feeling than both of them. Ride of the Valkyries portends a storm coming, a wild, turbulent ride where you, the opponent, are in for hell. That, in a nutshell, explains the offensive attack of Bryan, whose rough and tumble dive-to-the-outside trappings coming into the pain brought by his submission array. Wow, I just totally got all philosophical about a theme song.

6. Mark Henry



I just love a song that promises the splitting of wigs. I don't feel like I need to defend this choice.