10 Dick Moves Promoters Used To Improve Wrestlers' Performances
2. Burying CM Punk
CM Punk's enraged "Pipe Bomb" promo was - if you believe him - a last act of catharsis before he "split" like everybody else had done, but even if it was all part of a grand work to sell a pay-per-view and he always intended to sign a new deal, it took him being p*ssed off about just about everything to inspire a speech that rousing.
It's a wonder the microphone wasn't burned to a crisp, so violent were the flames spewed forth by Punk. He was, in his mind, wronged by a profoundly failing system. A system that had let down his character as it does so many others, but also one that had neglected the man underneath the t-shirts and tattoos.
The 'Straight Edge Superstar' was becoming the 'Voice Of The Voiceless' by finally careering off of the rails, but it's honestly tough to imagine how else things would have gone for the unpredictable star had WWE actually afforded him a modicum of respect. McMahon got three more years out of what sounded like pretty petty mistreatment, and the two made more money together from fighting than they ever would have as friends.