10 Classic Wrestling Rivalries That Would Have Flourished In The Attitude Era
5. CM Punk Vs Rey Mysterio
CM Punk appeared to legitimately go off the deep end during his intense and underrated 2010 feud with Rey Mysterio, but the 'Voice Of The Voiceless' did so miraculously whilst colouring within the lines.
The highlight of the programme came in the run-up to their first encounter at WrestleMania 26, long before the masked superstar would rob the christ-like cult leader Punk of his hair in a gripping finale later that year. In a near-the-knuckle SmackDown segment shortly before the 'Show Of Shows', 'The Straight Edge Society' hit the ring to terrorise Mysterio's family. The lowlight of an intense showdown saw Punk terrify Rey's young daughter with a haunting Birthday ditty.
Drop such a story into late-1990s hedonism, and Punk's evil could be turned up even further. Rey's son Dominic was at that time taller than his own father, which would have earned him a separate beating. Mysterio himself was bald under the mask, but his wife as a convert to Punk's Straight Edge crew would have made for a natural fork in the road before the Mexican star eventually vanquished his foe.