10 Most Infamous Wrestling Losing Streaks

7. CM Punk

Curt Hawkins
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In 2011, CM Punk was the hottest thing to happen to a desperately bleak wrestling landscape.

The Miz just wasn't main event level in the ring. He was seemingly punished for his dire matches with Randy Orton and John Cena by being buried six feet under, post-WrestleMania XXVII. Cena must take a lot of the blame for that. Bret Hart could hoist midcard talent to main event level on the strength of his performances; Cena reduced midcard figures to jobbers. Things were so dire that R-Truth headlined a Pay Per View in a singles match.

Enter Punk: in adopting the novel approach of actually speaking for himself, he lit up a damp summer with a series of awesome and unprecedented matches and promos. He didn't need a storied trajectory to main event stardom. He was p*ssed off because he'd already smashed through roadblock after roadblock. It was his time to win - his time to be the man.

So, WWE jobbed him out no less than four times on Pay Per View - dousing his searing heat with a bucket of p*ss. Alberto Del Rio defeated him at SummerSlam via Money In The Bank cash-in. The chicanery which allowed Triple H to defeat him at Vengeance reeked more of a way to excuse The Game's ego than a measure taken to preserve Punk's aura. Defeats to the Awesome Truth and a role as designated Triple Threat jobber at Hell In A Cell followed.

When he reemerged as the 'Best In The World' in 2012, the moniker rang hollow. He wasn't even the top star in his own promotion.

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