The 2008 MITB ladder match at WrestleMania XXIV featured superstars from Raw, Smackdown and ECW. Fans would have been forgiven if they thought that the ECW contingent was there just as a courtesy. However, it was ECWs CM Punk who walked away with the briefcase, which he would hold onto until the most opportune moment. Punk was drafted to Raw in mid-June, bringing the briefcase with him. A week later, Edge who was shifted from Raw to Smackdown in the same draft announced that he was taking the World Heavyweight Championship with him, leaving Raw with no world title. Batista came out to assault the Rated-R Superstar for cheating to retain the title the previous night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxQkHcOjQhM Cue Punk, who ran out, cashed in his briefcase and wrested the WHC from the departing Edge. Punk would hold the title for a little more than two months. While it wasnt a really eventful title reign, it was Punks first and helped establish him as a guy who was world title material.
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.
