50 Ups & 50 Downs For WWE's Decade: The 2010s
7. The Summer Of Punk
The follow-up to an awe-inspiring promo and electric Money In The Bank battle with John Cena has been long-lamented as one of the company's most catastrophic creative cul-de-sacs, but the month or so in which Punk was cast a revolutionary source of rage remains a reflection of a perplexed performer at his dynamic best.
It's all the more reason to bury everything that came after it.
More on Punk's irripresable rise in the Ups, but his fall was exactly as devastating as his "Pipe Bomb" predicted. He called out a system for failing over and over again, and it responded by...failing him over and over again. A pathetic whotextit storyline with Triple H and Kevin Nash was as pathetic as a pay-per-view loss to Triple H covering for Kevin Nash and only slightly more pathetic than a tag team match alongside Triple H that saw Kevin Nash on run-in duty.
One guess which wrestlers contested what proved to be the grand payoff to CM Punk's big moment.