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Throughout his career, CM Punk has consistently used the gimmick of being "Straight Edge," a lifestyle he repeatedly claims to follow in his actual day-to-day life. In the latest issue of Power Slam, magazine editor Findlay Martin responds to a reader's query as to whether Punk's "Straight Edge" gimmick is just that, a "fictitious" gimmick.

"That's a vicious rumour, as far as we know," Martin responds. "We have spoken to many people over the last eight years who have been to bars and nightclubs with Punk and/or traveled with him in Europe and the U.S. and Canada, and all report that Punk has invariably abstained from alcohol, illegal drugs and tobacco."

Martin, however, says that some wrestlers who worked with Punk during his path to the WWE main roster years ago found his drug-free proclamation to be phony. And upon reaching the main roster, he was shunned for living an alternative lifestyle.

"Since most wrestlers habitually use alcohol and/or drugs and are instinctively distrustful of fellow wrestlers, the assumption among most who did not know Punk when he was working on the independent circuit and treading water in WWE's developmental system was that his teetotaler/drug-free claims were bogus," Martin says. "When he reached WWE television and his fame and word spread that his 'Straight Edge" gimmick was genuine, Punk was ridiculed and even ostracized by some wrestlers for choosing an alternative lifestyle to theirs."

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I think a lot of people feel threatened by straight edge and therefore can't wrap their brain around someone actually doing it.

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Who cares ? Why do straight edge people need to tell people about it ?

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Because their "high" is smug self satisfaction.

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

The IWC makes me laugh. If it was John Cena or HHH who said they were straight edge the IWC would ridicule them. The IWC would call them nerds and fags. When one of their heroes proclaims to be straight edge the IWC pisses their pants over it and anyone who says otherwise.

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Straight-Edge includes abstaining from promiscuity/casual sex it's one thing to give up alcohol & drugs the guy is human after all he must have some weaknesses

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Nash, Hall, X-Pac, and Shawn Michaels have all said HHH was drink free and drug free. That's why he always drove.

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No it doesn't.

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Jack comment is what I've thought all along, seems like its just anothe loose term hippies use to proclaim they are better than us.

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Influential DC Hardcore band Minor Threat coined the term "Straight Edge" as a song title on their first EP in 1981. Those particular lyrics do not state anything about sex, but in a similarly themed song on their second EP released later that year titled "Out of Step", the lyrics state:

I don't smoke
I don't drink,
I don't fuck,
At least I can fucking think.

I can't keep up,
I can't keep up,
I can't keep up,
Out of step with the world.

*repeat*

*Spoken*
Listen,
This is no set of rules,
I'm not telling you what to do,
All im saying is im bringing up three things,
That are like so important to the whole world,
That I dont identify as much importance in,
Because of these things,
Whether they are fucking or playing golf,
Because of that I feel.
*End Spoken*

I can't keep up,
I can't keep up,
I can't keep up,
Out of step with the world.

You know that has absolutely nothing to do with reality's point right?

Why not just be a Christian then? It's all the same thing.

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Maybe they don't want to buy into all the hocus pocus...

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I suppose but that sort of makes less sense. You're doing (or not doing in this case) all the bad stuff that goes along with being a Christian but you don't get any of the afterlife benefits.

That said I don't really have a problem with straight edge people. I just find their lifestyle and how serious they are about very amusing.

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I honestly don't either, but the Christian reference, even Jesus drank wine.

Punk does seem to be a smug little dude, kinda guy that makes a good heel cause you want to see him get his teeth knocked in

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I know several people who are "straight-edge" in my life. I don't see why Punk actually being straight-edge is phony to "the boys." It's not of their concern.

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Seems like others make a bigger deal about it in my case.

Some random wrestling site and the title "Report On Whether CM Punk's 'Straight Edge' Lifestyle Is Genuine"... I was half expecting the report to consist of only one word: "Yes"

hippies were far from straight edge man ; think you might mean hipster no offense either way doesn't matter

the whole thing is pointless punk only brings it up when he's ''heeling''

Only cause we like to give you grief about your eating habits, we toss in your drinking habits lol

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