And so this week's much-anticipated RAW, broadcast live from CM Punk's hometown of Chicago, has finally come and gone, and with it, the WWE is actually all the better. For days now social media had been abuzz with hashtags like #hijackRaw and #Punkreturns in hopes of disrupting the WWE flow across this specific RAW program. And try as they did, the live crowd this week in Chicago could not really get the job done. But boy they tried, but in the end the WWE brass was just too smart for even the most avid wrestling fan, mark, and CM Punk enthusiast. CM Punk walked away from the WWE following the Royal Rumble. With the plans set up before him by Creative at that time, he was being booked to again take a Wrestlemania main event backseat to another returning veteran in Dave Bautista. Punk didn't like being second-fiddle, again, to another aging Superstar/Legend, so he took his ball and he went home. But this week, even the wrestling insider faithfuls like Dave Meltzer, were sure Punk was coming home and would appear on RAW from Chicago. But most everyone was fooled. Alas, there was no CM Punk to appear on the broadcast, no resolution to the WWE's missing top draw just weeks out from Wrestlemania XXX. What we were given, instead, was a fantastic outing of RAW that at several moments had the local crowd forgetting about CM Punk...and instead going all-in on the great action and storytelling in the ring. So let's take a quick look at 5 things we learned following this week's CM Punk-less RAW broadcast: