10 WWE Plans Doomed From The Start
1. The Pipe Bomb
The common misconception is that WWE don't want their fans to have "nice things". This isn't entirely true, but they definitely don't want people to have "nice thing" that they didn't decide should be dished out in the first place.
It's not as though CM Punk wasn't given the airtime and live microphone to go and share his story either, but the disastrous de-push that followed his white hot 'Pipe Bomb' promo in 2011 reflected just how much the company didn't really expect him to create such an explosion amongst the status quo.
Punk winning the WWE Championship at Money In The Bank was the natural payoff to his legendary rant, but his treatment from then through to a November regaining of it bordered on workplace bullying. The persona he'd established in one screen-melting moment was ripped apart by lackadaisical booking and horrific plot twists seemingly engineered to make an idiot out of a man casting himself as the smartest guy in the room.
The audience his promo had brought back scuttled back off too. For the briefest moment, the mainstream were watching wrestling for the wrestling storylines. Punk's hard left turn had relit a fire in many, but the flames were extinguished so quickly that the passing punters were left with nothing but regrets for even bothering to tune back in in the first place.