10. CM Punk Had More Experience Working With Seasoned Veteran Than Seth Rollins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3prWGcJ3Q Night of Champions was quite possibly one of the first two or three times that Seth Rollins had ever been in a ring with a performer who had experience wrestling in the time frame between 1985-1995. In CM Punk making his name as an independent wrestlers doing as much "super awesome indy highspot wrestling" as having matches -- like the above one -- with territory-era veterans Chris Candido and Tracy Smothers, Punk really grasped how to get the most out of guys who likely weren't physically capable to keep up with a "go go go" style of wrestling. Is it possible to believe that Sting would've suffered a career-ending injury had he wrestled CM Punk. Of course. Accidents happen. But would CM Punk have attempted a "snake eyes" powerbomb with Sting? Let's go with a 150% chance of no. In knowing the what and how and why of working with veterans, Punk certainly had a unique skillset that in Rollins only now learning, makes him much more able to sustain success than Seth Rollins.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
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