Select Answers: CM Punk, living the gimmick, Universal Title

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. 

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In the past some wrestlers were known to ‘live their gimmick’ I’m thinking Nikita Koloff comes to mind. The characters today are a lot more grounded but do you know many that don’t break character

Plenty do when it comes to interviews and such, but the ones I see doing it all around shows and conventions are MJF and Boogeyman. Once I was interviewing MJF in Las Vegas, and he stopped because he noticed an AEW fan about 30 feet away. He stared at the fan until the fan realized it, looked at him, said "fuck you" and continued

Sorry if this has been covered before, but has there been anymore talk of CM Punk signing/negotiating a longer term deal? I remember something coming up a couple months ago about him wanting a "forever" deal or something to that effect.

Well his current deal isn't even a year old. I'd heard that the two side were engaged in talks a while back for something more expansive as things had changed since they abruptly put a deal together. So far, WWE has been very happy with Punk back in the company, and everything has gone really well so far.

Does WWE still have 4 world titles between 3 shows? I thought I heard the title Cody has still has the universal title lineage attached to it.

The title Cody Rhodes holds signifies both the WWE and Universal Championships. Both titles, even though the Universal name isn't being used out loud, are still being counted on the website as active. We've heard of no plans recently to display three championships as they did before. The option is there, but that's not been discussed to our knowledge.