10 CM Punk Matches You Need To Relive On WWE Network
6. CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio (WWE Over The Limit 2010)
Though having wrestled Rey Mysterio some eight years prior for independent promotion IWA Mid-South in 2002, CM Punk's match with Mysterio from 2010's Over the Limit pay-per-view involved CM Punk getting a haircut at the hands of Mysterio, who had put on the line his potential membership in Punk's Straight Edge Society stable. Creepy Punk-as-Charles Manson lookalike was something else. The SES era allowed Punk to be far more of a "gimmick-driven performer" than "pro wrestler," and the idea that Punk and legendary "more wrestling-than-gimmick" luchador Mysterio can go out and keep the WWE Universe in the palm of their hands with a match stipulation straight out of 25 years prior is impressive.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
