10 Moments That Caused Huge Rifts Between Wrestlers
9. Triple H Buries CM Punk For "Not Knowing How To Work"
CM Punk worked multiple dark matches, circa 2005, as WWE passively heard the distant buzz he had generated on the Independent circuit.
During one such match, Triple H and Shawn Michaels watched on the monitor. Whether Punk's unconventional hybrid style disrupted their wavelength - or they were threatened by his evident ability and handsome bad boy look - they shredded his ability. He didn't know "how to work" said the two men who right now are pushing Rinku and Saurav in NXT.
This assessment informed WWE's resistance to CM Punk throughout much of his career which, like so many (Daniel Bryan, Kofi Kingston, Drew McIntyre) was circuitous and exhausting en route to the pinnacle. Punk never let go of this, even when he'd made it, and the company's default attitude to a person like him made it that much easier for him to depart it.
Punk's vengeance must have felt sweet; by abruptly leaving in 2014, he deprived Triple H of a WrestleMania match with him. He laughed with scorn at the idea that going over Triple H in his yawn-epic was meant to mean anything for his career.
Look in my eyes, what do you see?
30 minutes in a library.