8 Geniuses Who Were Secretly Behind Famous Wrestling Ideas

7. The Shield: CM Punk

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CM Punk says that he came up with The Shield, anyway - but CM Punk also says that he's never coming back to wrestling. And that can't be true... can it?

The Straight Edge Superstar made the claim during that appearance on The Art of Wrestling, the podcast hosted by his good friend Colt Cabana (on which he also, famously, burnt his bridges with nearly everyone associated with WWE).

He basically said that they - by whom he meant Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose (the decision to add Roman wasn't his) - were originally supposed to come in as his own personal heavies, after he balked at the idea of being backed up by Big Show and Daniel Bryan.

The extent to which the whole "Hounds of Justice" shtick was Punk's idea is perhaps less clear, but it seems the personnel, at least, was - partly - his doing.

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