10 Times WWE Loved Making Your Favourite Wrestlers Cry

1. CM Punk

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An iconoclast in the wrong era, CM Punk made some of the meaningless drivel he was involved in over the years so impactful that his career-changing 2011 promos almost understated his prior plight.

Such was the case when his terrorisation of Rey Mysterio's family morphed into the 'Straight Edge Superstar' wearing a mask of his own just to hide the hair he lost in the feud. With messianic complex and hair/beard combo to boot, the loss of his locks suddenly meant to a lot to him. As did hiding with a mask that The Big Show was eventually credited with removing.

That programme had nothing on the Mysterio series that came before it, but Punk sold losing the hood as if it was worse than losing his hair. Bawling his eyes out in panic and fret as Show a*sed about with him at the top of a ladder, the future 'Voice Of The Voiceless' gave life to even the deadest of issues.

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