10 Failed WWE Pushes One Tweak Away From Excellence
4. CM Punk (2006-2007)
Why it failed: That recent WWE returnee (sort of) CM Punk didn't leave years before he actually did was perhaps a bigger miracle than his 2019 comeback - the company relentlessly filled his plate so full of the sh*t Vince McMahon likes his talent to eat that it could have turned even a 'Straight Edge Superstar' to the bottle.
Never was it worse than in his formative years as a man that couldn't even comfortably dominate the C-brand. "Mythical brass rings indeed".
One Tweak: Make CM Punk the new face of the new ECW by giving him the Championship at the new pay-per-view and keeping it on him for absolutely f*cking ages.
Yes that's technically more than one tweak, but it's trapped in one long sentence and it makes the same point. In much the same way a well-booked Elimination Chamber might have salvaged December To Dismember, an early title victory to continue his undefeated streak would have expedited a Raw or SmackDown run that, too, could have had less potholes pre-"Pipe Bomb".