"You will realize that I'm not just a minor threat"

CM Punk: "By a show of hands who here has made New Year's resolutions? [vereinzelte Hände gehen hoch, vereinzelte Buhrufe] You don't boo that. You just raise or not raise your hand. Now, how many of you have already broken those New Year's resolutions? And you, you sir, right there. [deutet ins Publikum] I'd imagine yours. Yours was what? Lose 20, 30 pounds? You've clearly already blown that one sky high. And how many of you collectively foolishly told yourselves that you are gonna stop drinking for the New Year? New Year's resolutions are all about bettering yourself, making yourself a better person. Just why I've never actually made a resolution myself, because I'm already better.

But I can help you. I can save you. Take what I've done to Luke--I can do for you. That's why tonight we're gonna have a pledge. So I want everybody in the arena to stand up right now. Show yourselves a little bit of self-respect. Everybody at home--Of course feel free to put your hand on the screen and feel me flow through you into your homes. Everybody repeat after me.

I--state your name--am tired of wasting my life being a loser. I'm tired of treating my body like a sewer. REPEAT after me! I am tired of not having the strength to just say No. Raise your hands, people. In 2010 I will inhere to the straight edge lifestyle. I will not smoke. I will not drink. I will not do drugs.

Well, it's obvious to me that you people don't know how to follow direction. Let me make this painfully clear to you. Do not make me beat this into you. Because I can and I certainly will beat up everyone in this arena. If that is what it takes to get through to you. My mind is clear, unlike yours. You're probably still a little bit hung over from the Holidays. So I will make this a very sobering comment. Next week I will save a very lost soul from the audience. Because I have heart. And then city by city, day by day, person by person, my message will grow. And it will spread. And you will realize that I'm not just a minor threat. And the youth of today will come together as one straight edge society.

I will start it all off tonight. By setting the winning time in the Beat The Clock Challenge. And then at the Royal Rumble event I will become four time Straight Edge World Heavyweight Champion. And I will destroy The Undertaker."

- Die Passage "I'm not just a minor threat" ist eine Referenz auf die Hardcore-Gruppe "Minor Threat", die in den 80ern mit ihren Songs "Straight Edge" und "Out of step" die Straight-Edge-Bewegung geprägt haben. Der Ausdruck "youth of today" ist ebenfalls der Name einer Straight-Edge-Band.