7 Stupidest Reasons WWE Refused To Push Superstars

7. A Big Arse (CM Punk)

If only CM Punk hadn't had such a colossal arse, perhaps he would have headlined WrestleMania afterall. You can't fit an arse that size on a poster, can you? That's why WrestleMania IX's one-sheet just had Bret Hart's gigantic mug gurning from the side of a Las Vegas hotel, as though he was performing lounge hits or a magic act as the show's main attraction. And we all know how history remembers WrestleMania IX, don't we?

What's that? He doesn't have a colossal arse? No, he does: Triple H said so. That is, at least, according to Jim Ross, who detailed one episode of The Game and Punk's bitter backstage feud during an episode of his podcast last year.

The veteran announcer recalled "[Hunter] saying his ass was too big", and that he thought the Voice of the Voiceless was "too soft" to be a realistic main event star. Sure enough, despite having the favour of 'Mania 29 opponent The Undertaker, Punk missed top billing in New York, and dramatically flounced from the company just under a year later, latterly citing the doofus son-in-law amidst his grievances.

(A curious footnote - or bum note, if you will: after WWE began a defamation lawsuit against Punk on behalf of slighted doc Chris Amman, the company uploaded an utterly bizarre video of their former star's backside as evidence of his falsehoods. It's still on the website to this day, and absolutely worth a look - so long as you're alone, anyway.)