10 People CM Punk Pissed Off Most In His WWE Career
6. The Miz
CM Punks DVD is a treasure-trove of the kind of comments that resonated with fans, but also ones that had to infuriate fellow WWE superstars. One of the better examples is Punk calling The Mizs main-eventing WrestleMania XXVII one of the straws that broke the proverbial camels back in steering him toward nearly leaving WWE in 2011. Punk describes it:
There wasnt a better bad guy in the business than me, and to watch somebody literally get handed this I just didnt get it. It was a monument slap in the face to someone who has as much pride as I do. In my world, the best good guy fights the best bad guy at the biggest show of the year Nobody could tell me any good reason as to why I was once again taking a backseat.
In hindsight and even as Mania was happening it was fairly obvious that Miz was punching above his weight, and the buildup and match itself shows it. To his credit, Miz did a 2013 interview on the Sam Roberts Show where he acknowledges that Punks comments took him aback, but that he understands that Any superstar thats not in the main event of Wrestlemania should be pi$$ed off, should want it more than anybody. Still, Miz couldnt have taken it well to hear how his place on the WrestleMania card nearly caused one of the biggest stars in the company to leave. No one brushes something like that off that quickly. Miz might be OK with it in the long run, but had to be pretty demoralizing and aggravating to hear your name being besmirched in a WWE DVD and one in which youre putting over the guy whos taking shots at you.
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.
