10 Times WWE Pulled The Trigger (When You Least Expected It)
8. CM Punk Returns (Monday Night Raw, 2011)
As you can tell from the title of this next entry, we are not going to further deconstruct the swerve that was CM Punk's return to WWE television in 2019 - albeit under FOX contract.
Nope, instead this entry will focus on 'Chick Magnet' Phil's re-emergence from the abyss after his unbelievable title heist at the 2011 iteration of Money in the Bank.
In arguably the greatest ending to a PPV in modern history, Punk managed to fend off the interference of Vince McMahon, John Laurinaitis and (Money in the Bank Holder) Alberto Del Rio, before hopping over the barricade to flee the company - not before blowing a kiss to the exasperated boss.
How do you even follow that kind of shock?
Well, it appeared as though Punk had seriously left the company behind, as both the WWE title and the Cult of Personality disappeared from television... for a week.
That week was filled with speculation as to whether Punk would stay true to his comments on perhaps defending the belt all over the world and fans were fully invested in the story of this renegade keeping his star alight outside of the company's walls.
Yet, in one of the only examples on this list of WWE negatively pulling the trigger when fans least expected it, Punk was back on Monday Night Raw just over a week after he'd bolted out of Money in the Bank with the belt and the excitement surrounding an indie Summer of Punk evaporated just like that.