10 WWE Storylines That Were Only Good For One Moment
2. The Summer Of Punk
The biggest swing begat the biggest miss in 2011 when CM Punk scooped out the rotting insides of WWE and thrust them into the eyes and ears of the braying masses.
That was the point of the "Pipe Bomb", beyond elevating Punk to such a degree that he ended up working for the company for three more years instead of doing what he'd once intended and actually leaving WWE behind. It was dramatic and incendiary, but set the bar way too high for the flailing creative forces to top after the fact.
Everything Punk said that night was true. Too true. Truer now than ever, in fact, which has only served to undermine the significance of the original angle - the WWE Championship match between the 'Voice Of The Voiceless' and John Cena at Money In The Bank 2011 is a monument to how well that promo sold a pay-per-view, but not for how an iconoclast managed to affect any lasting change.
And the less said about everything after that (again), the better.