10 CM Punk Matches You Need To Relive On WWE Network

4. Team DX (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, CM Punk & Matt Hardy) vs. Team Rated-RKO (Edge, Randy Orton, Johnny Nitro, Mike Knox & Gregory Helms) (Survivor Series 2006)

CM Punk on the same team as the Hardy Boyz and Degeneration X after being on WWE's main roster after three months is fairly amazing. Punk's entrance in Philadelphia (where he made his name in Ring of Honor) is impressive too, and based on crowd response alone, literally had him on the same level as four of the Attitude Era's cornerstone talents. The crowd pop when Punk taps out Johnny Nitro to the Anaconda Vice is incredibly awesome, as also is the post-match celebration where four other established superstars have a bemused look on their face as they realize that WWE is literally about to take a 180-degree turn, and they're basically woefully unprepared.
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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.