10 Biggest Megalomaniacs In WWE History

10. CM Punk

When your personal moniker is that you’re the “best in the world” that means you probably think a bit too highly of yourself. As good as CM Punk was, he was just never going to be someone that Vince McMahon was going to build around. He appealed to adults, but not so much to children, which in a PG era is a bit of a necessity as the top guy. Instead of being happy with a top three position, he needed to be No. 1, or else he was going to make life a living hell for those around him.

When he was informed he wouldn't be main-eventing WrestleMania, but instead had to settle for Triple H, he quit the company. That wasn't good enough. His ego then took him over into the world of MMA, a field he was completely unprepared for. He was upset when journalists dared to question whether he could take a punch, which was a legitimate question. He claimed that he’d taken many inadvertent punches in his wrestling career from the likes of people like that “steroid guy” Ryback, which was similar (it was not). His inflated sense of self worth didn’t pay off in the octagon as he was manhandled.

Punk is a guy who thinks the rules don’t apply to him, perhaps because he’s too special. He was upset that The Rock “took” someone’s spot on the card at WrestleMania, though he was fine with himself “taking” someone’s spot at UFC, as well as being able to write Marvel comic books, which in effect would have gone to someone who actually wrote comics for a living. Due to his inability to really look outside himself, he created a toxic atmosphere around him that damaged the backstage environment.

The troubled star is one of the best talents of this past generation, but he also has one of the biggest egos of the past couple decades in wrestling, and he has one that is very easily bruised. That's a really bad combination.