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3. CM Punk Drops A Bomb
'The Voice Of The Voiceless' seemingly only spoke for himself when he blew up everything in All Elite Wrestling at the post-All Out 2022 press conference, but 11 years earlier, CM Punk's truth-to-power sermon genuinely seemed more for others' benefit than his own. Perhaps the fact that he was due to leave the company a few weeks later made it easier to speak so freely.
Making himself the hottest performer in mainstream pro wrestling right on the verge of his contract expiring was exhilarating gamesmanship, in hindsight, but blowing the doors off an organisation that badly badly needed it made the "pipe bomb" far more powerful and profound than a typical farewell storyline.
The end result wasn't a complete shift in the narrative for WWE, even if it felt like the world could never be the same again. But Punk's words weren't for nought - the devastating glass ceiling was cracked if not smashed, and he'd eventually make good on that with a 434-day WWE Title reign that reframed contemporary expectations for champions.