When I hop on a Zoom call with Bear1Boss, he immediately notices the embarrassing amount of wrestling action figures displayed on the bedroom wall behind me.
Like wrestling fans tend to do when they meet a fellow member of the tribe, we start debating our personal GOATs. Turns out we have the same favorite wrestler: CM Punk, the scrappy underdog from Chicago who swaggers to the ring to the massive riffs of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” and never backs down from a fight.
As you might expect from someone with the word “Punk” in their name, he’s known for constantly polarizing fans by speaking his truth, even when it’s unpopular. “CM Punk is probably a big reason my confidence is the way it is,” Bear confides.
The colorfully cosmic rapper might be the furthest thing from a middle-aged straight-edge punk, but I can see why he’s drawn to a personality who is such a model of being unapologetically yourself.
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