10 Huge Bust-Ups Between Wrestlers And Bookers

7. CM Punk Vs. Triple H

Triple H wasn't formally booking WWE, but he had controlled his creative direction for well over a decade by 2014.

CM Punk was beat up, depressed, pissed off, disenchanted. He had spent his entire career in a rage against a machine that never saw him as a tippy-top guy despite so much vocal and metric-supported evidence to the contrary. He wanted the WrestleMania main event, and never got it. He was soul-sick, and Triple H offered him some chicken soup in the form of a...

...25 minute methodical 'Mania semi-main.

But CM Punk got to go over!

He'd probably have to endure lines like "Let's face it, Phil, you're just a straight edge Shannon Moore we let headline a B-level pay-per-view when business sucked" in the build, but he would go over, in a result that would definitely benefit Punk himself, and not Triple H, who definitely didn't need a great and cool opponent with which to preserve his legacy.

Definitely.

Who was in the right?

Punk's "F*ck this" departure catalysed the butterfly effect that led us to Daniel Bryan's career pinnacle, so Punk. WWE's best booker of the 2010s was a talent who had left the company.