Three Man Booth

Even though it’s been 2 years, CM Punk’s now infamous pipe bomb promo is still a moment that wrestling and non-wrestling fans hold in high regard. The moment that ushered in the Summer of Punk is responsible for much more than a change in wrestling. ThreeManBooth was started, in part, to make wrestling fun again. And we’ve found 3 rap songs that are not only tributes to CM Punk but also incorporate the “Pipe bomb” promo in some way.

Papoose sampled the line, “In anyone else’s hands, this is a microphone; in my hands, it’s a pipe bomb” for the song… “Pipe Bomb.” That’s the extent of the Punk references in the song, though that line is repeated a lot. The rest of the song, I think, is about Papoose being better than everyone else in New York City; he was either inspired by Punk’s proclamation of self or was doing what the majority of rap songs do anyway. Either way, this connection to CM Punk is a step above Papoose other vague wrestling footnote. Bobby Heenan famously referred to the finishing move of Tatanka, Native American Wrestler, as “the Papoose to Go.” He was slyly referencing the similarities between a papoose carrier, a type of baby carriage seen in Native American culture, and a Samoan Drop, Tatanka’s finisher. Regardless, Heenan’s influence is so strong that a generation of wrestling fans and Wikipedia grew up believing that “Papoose to Go” or, alternatively, “The End of the Trail” are actual names for that finisher. Sorry, everyone: they’re just jokes. Continue reading →