The Straight Edge Society was awesome while it lasted, but like a lot of good things in WWE it just didn't last long enough. Punk was the leader of a stable that included Luke Gallows, the lovely Serena and Joseph (Joey) Mercury. They were heels that thought they were better than everybody since they were straight edge, so it was easy to hate them. Following Punk's awesome feud with Rey Mysterio (that he lost and led to his head being shaved) he started to wear a mask to sell the idea that he hated being bald. That led to a feud with the bald Big Show, who ended up ripping off Punk's mask (Punk sold it wonderfully with a fantastically hammy expression). Big Show beat the entire Straight Edge Society in a 3-on-1 handicap match at SummerSlam that basically killed the whole stable off. They were disbanded shortly after that due to outside-the-ring reasons. Then Show beat Punk again at the next PPV Night of Champions in under five minutes (in Punk's home state, no less). It took ages for Punk to recover from this disastrous feud.
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