10 Greatest WWE Raw Endings Ever

Part of the reason we all love CM Punk's infamous "pipebomb" moment, granted, is that it's been a long four years since we've seen the Straight Edge Superstar in the ring at all. Wrestlers are never more loved than when they're away.

But there's much more to it than that. When Punk took to the microphone in June 2011 to decry WWE nepotism, and the mentality that meant wrestlers of a "certain look" received preferential treatment, he was repeating what many fans had been saying for years on the online message boards.

There was something cathartic, both for Punk and the crowd who cheered his every word (right up until he pointed the finger of blame at them, anyway), about one of the company's most misused stars telling his bosses exactly what he thought live on TV.

For once, it was real and from the heart; the sort of game-changing promo that can single-handedly launch a new era of wrestling, in the same way that Stone Cold's famous "Austin 3:16" speech helped usher in the Attitude Era 15 years earlier. If you saw it live, then savour it - because this only happens once in a generation.