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"I'm here on top swimming with sharks while you're dancing with stars"

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Title:
"I'm here on top swimming with sharks while you're dancing with stars"
Date:
27.02.2012
Chris Jericho: "Expecting somebody else, Punk? Listen, listen... I know you've got a big match, champion versus champion, but what I have to say is a little bit more important. Before I say, let me preface it by saying one thing: I think you are an amazing performer, Punk. I think you are very, very good. As a matter of fact you are one of my favorites, but you're not as good as I am. You're not as good as me. You are not the best in the world at everything you do. And you know it. You see, I never had to call myself the best in the world. Other people said it for me. These people said it for me. And I never had to write it on the back of a t-shirt. They would write it on signs and bring it to the arena.

And the reason for that is this: I am part of a special breed of performers. I'm one of a literal dying breed of performers that toured the world, honing our craft, learning our skills, becoming stars before we ever got to the WWE. A breed that cared more about having the best match on the show than personal politics, didn't care what the hirarchy thought of us, what position we were sloted in, what we were supposed to be. A breed of performers that were given nothing and took everything. And yeah, I developed a chip on my shoulder because of it. And yeah, I got a bad attitude and a bad reputation in the back with the powers that be because of it. But I didn't give a damn. Because I knew I was good. I knew I was the best.

And now, Punk, you're just like me. You're a maverick. A rebel that went against the grain and became something more than anybody thought that you would. But in translation that's because you just wanna be me. You're a Chris Jericho wannabe. Oh yeah, you know it's true. It's so obviously blatent by the fact you plagiarized me every step of the way..."

CM Punk: "Stop. Just stop."

Chris Jericho: "Don't you tell me to stop, boy! I'm talking to you!"

CM Punk: "And I'm listening. But I think everybody else is sick of listening. So I'm gonna go ahead... Look, Chris, I know how good you are. These people know how good you are. My problem I have with you is you coming out here and insinuating that I've stolen anything from you. No. I've never plagiarized anything in my life. Everything that I have I fought for and I've earned. It's right here. You think you invented saying that you are the best? Are you kiddin' me? There is a guy I remember watching when I was a kid. You probably watched him when you were a kid, too. His name is Bret Hitman Hart. The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be. Did you invent that? Did you give that to him when you were what, two years old? He's Canadian, too. Did you invent him being Canadian? Did you invent Canada?"

Chris Jericho: "Oh yeah, laugh along. Laugh it up with Punk. Laugh along with Punk. Very nice. Because it's oh so typical, Punk. So smarmy, sarcastic, never taking anything to seriously, right? Well, you need to take me seriously, Punk. Cause this is a whole different level. A whole different level from anything you ever had before. Because like I said this is not some kind of gimmick. I am the best in the world at everything I do. And I prove it every night as I have for the last twenty-two years. Staying on the highest level of any performer in the history of this business.

You can boo if you want, but you know it's the damn truth. I have faced every legend, every hall-of-fame, future hall-of-fame performer in this ring and beaten them all. I've won dozens of championships, I've had dozens of classic matches, classic WrestleMania steal-the-show matches, dozens of moments that will be legendary long after either one of us are gone. [CM Punk-Chants werden laut] You can chant it all you want, but I am not just telling you, I am proving to you with all the evidence that standing right in front of you is the literal undeserved, undoubtful best in the world at everything I do!"

CM Punk: "You know, you keep saying that. And your words just scream superiority, but I watch you and the way you walk out here and the inflection in your voice. And certainly your body language. It screams inferiority. Who you're trying to prove? You're trying to prove to me that you're the best? Are you trying to prove to these people that you're the best? Or are you trying to prove to yourself that you're the best? See, I say that I'm the best in the world. And yeah, that's a little cocky. But confidence is nothing that I've ever lacked. And it's nothing that I thought you lacked. But now that confidence, Chris, it seems to be replaced with jealousy.

So you look at me and you see a guy that emerged from the same shadows you did. He came from the same places you did. He overcame the same obstacles you did. But now he surpassed everything you did, didn't he? Because, sure, you beat legends. You beat Stone Cold and you beat The Rock in the same night ten years ago and that made you the WWE Champion. But you were never really the man like how I'm the man, were you? And that just bothers you a little bit, doesn't it. You have a Napoleon complex because of it. So you come back and you try to point fingers and place the blame. The blame is only on you.

See, you say that you're the best in the world at what you do. And I say that I'm the best wrestler in the world. The distinction to me is very simple. This is nothing I chose. I was born this way. This is who I am. This is what I do while you chose to leave and write books and have a radio show and be on game shows. And you chose to be a rock star. And all the while I'm here on top, swimming with sharks while you're dancing with stars."

Chris Jericho: "When I was Dancing with Stars, Punk, and killing it on the Tonight Show and becoming a bigger star than you ever were, all I could think of was one thing. And that was you ripping me off. Every single night you ripping me off, Punk. And let me be completely clear and honest with you. All of thse January second vignettes and the best in the world verbage and this light up, flashy, fancy jacket, it's all window dressing. Because I came back to the WWE for one reason, and for one reason only. And that was to embarrass you on the biggest stage in the world. To take back what is mine, to beat you for that world title at WrestleMania, and to shove down your throat that I am the best in the world at what I do! I prove it, I claim it, I am it every single night!"

CM Punk: "Well, that's all you had to say. When you came back, you didn't have to jump me to get my attention. All you had to do is grab me and say 'Hey, Punk, me and you, best in the world versus best in the world at WrestleMania'. See, this is the time of the year everybody points at that sign. But I'm gonna point at my championship title. Because to me, I don't need Chris Brown and you don't need Mickey Rourke. And we don't need all the pyro in the world or inflatable letters to tell everybody how awesome we are. And I don't need a fancy entrance. And screw your stupid, light-bright jacket! The only thing we need is me and you in a ring. And on April first we're gonna find out exactly who the best in the world is. Because to me those are the ingredients we need in the recipe to have what quite possibly could be the greatest wrestling match in WrestleMania history. But, see, I have something you come at. And I say come and get it. And at the end of the night, when you're looking over your shoulder on the ramp and you see this [er reißt den Titelgurt in die Höhe] it's not gonna be the end of the world. It's just gonna be the end of yours!"

[Nun erklingt Daniel Bryans Theme, der für sein Match gegen Punk zum Ring kommt]
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