10 Times WWE Mocked What We Really Wanted

9. The Worst Chapter Of The Summer Of Punk

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There are several dishonourable mentions in this specific storyline, all of which span the timeframe "everything that happened after Money In The Bank".

In 2011, a man performed the role of a renegade who, infuriated by the systemic injustice within the WWE anti-meritocracy, hijacked several high-profile main events in retribution.

That man wasn't CM Punk.

That man was The Miz, who is so pro-WWE that he once cut a passionate, full-throated promo espousing the virtues of his promotion's boring in-ring style like his family had been threatened.

The CM Punk character - who in June was so anti-WWE that he was going to leave the promotion - responded to this development by tweaking his persona. He was no longer the Voice of the Voiceless. He was a Fedpilled scab who palled around with Triple H, the "doofus son-in-law," after the mass walkout that followed Hell In A Cell. The man who despised the system and was desperate to change it actively wanted to prop it up at the precise moment, in storylines, it had never actually changed more dramatically.

You wanted CM Punk, Voice of the Voiceless?

Here, have CM Punk, Face of the Establishment, instead!

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