10 People CM Punk Pissed Off Most In His WWE Career
2. Jeff Hardy
During summer 2009, CM Punk and Jeff Hardy engaged in an art imitates life feud where Punk used Hardys lifestyle to propel himself into his first heel run in WWE. He claimed that he was better than Jeff because he was the Straight Edge superstar, while Hardys demons prevented him from holding on to the World Heavyweight Championship. It was an epic transformation that showed that Punk could handle the microphone and hold fans in the palm of his hand. Ultimately, it proved to be Hardys swansong with WWE, and Punk (in his DVD) gave Hardy credit for putting him over on his way out. After Hardy left WWE, he issued a clearly altered-state promo at a diner where he ranted for nearly two minutes about how Punk is disrespectful, looks down on others and hes cocky in and outside the ring. He closes with, F*** you, I made you the Straight Edge superstar you are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GcrIBhBWA Of all the people Punk likely p****d off during his WWE career, Hardy is probably one of the most personal, and one where theres visual evidence outside of WWE programming just how he feels. More recently, Hardy seems to have mellowed on his feelings toward Punk, but theres no denying that Punk wasnt on Jeffs Christmas card list a few years back.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
