10 Biggest Holy Sh*t Moments In WWE Raw History
3. Pipe Bomb
2004-2011, with obvious and notable exceptions, reflected some of the very worst creative in WWE history.
Still struggling for identity in an elongated post-Attitude Era period, WWE experienced measured success in all the usual metrics but had a non-existent outreach to new fans thanks to the same old sh*t on top and absolutely f*ck all underneath. CM Punk's scorching of the system was a call-to-arms for much of the audience that still desperately wanted to love a product they'd come to loathe.
It was also, in content and delivery, legitimately jaw-dropping.
He roasted the baddies and ripped into the broken mechanics of the WWE system, but there existed a greater good underneath his wild words. Typically, his most prescient remark was the one in which he diminished himself for the wider point. He was just a "spoke in the wheel", and it did keep turning without him. He spun off in numerous different directions following his acrimonious exit but the organisation gradually adjusted to realise many of his visions.
It's one of wrestling's great shames that he got to experience any of them first hand.