10 Big Money Matches WWE Needs To Make

Any return match for CM Punk is contingent, of course, on WWE and Punk coming to terms on some form of agreement for his return in the next couple of years, and Punk actually wanting that return to take place.

If that ever happens - and it’s pretty unlikely - then it’s to be expected that part of the enticement package would be a WrestleMania main event… and there’s no one better to place opposite him than Triple H, the man Punk has legitimate grievance with, who went over him in 2011 and killed his momentum, and who has sufficient stroke to have himself named the headliner regardless of any other matches on the card.

The big question would be whether, after all this time - after years of his fanbase gradually falling away through attrition and discontent, after the heavily publicised criticisms of the WWE product, hierarchy and corporate culture, and after his conspicuous failure as an elite level mixed martial artist… would CM Punk return as the conquering hero, or as a villain?

The latter seems far more appropriate. Punk was always a better antagonist than protagonist anyway. With NXT graduates having taken centre stage in WWE’s programming, Triple H - as the proud Daddy Bear of developmental - could be recast as the firebrand agent of change that Punk himself represented in 2011.

What better time for a sarcastic, bitter CM Punk to return to the company he left with such hostility in early 2014? Seeing the man who supposedly blocked his rise to the very top of WWE taking on the persona he used to become a megastar could be the storyline catalyst for Punk to come back, this time as the entitled, arrogant heel who believes that the indie darlings that have taken over the main event owe him a debt of gratitude.