10 Times Triple H Won WWE Matches He Should Have Lost
1. Vs CM Punk (Night Of Champions 2011)
It's no wonder CM Punk's mental health was in tatters.
His return to wrestling in 2021 was the sort of the unique experience few other industries could ever realistically create. There aren't too many jobs that are so oblique that a near-identical version of the thing that's killing you is required to be the cure. But "near" is doing some heavy lifting there isn't it?
AEW, for all its unchecked faults, couldn't be further away from whatever WWE is in 2021. And it doesn't particularly resemble what the product was in 2011 either. There, Punk was fed to a machine he naively believed he could change, and it happened even quicker than most cynics could have projected.
Punk sat cross-legged in Las Vegas in June, and was rightfully WWE Champion by July. He'd lost it by August, before falling to Triple H in September. There's no obscuring such an obvious deconstruction of a hot character, not least considering the fact that Punk was forced to buddy up with 'The King Of Kings' within weeks of this damaging defeat.