7 Times CM Punk Showed That He's Delusional

3. He Believed His Mania Match With Undertaker Should Have Gone On Last

Punk believed that his match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania 29 was the best match on the show, and there aren't too many people who will disagree with him. It was an excellent 22 minute match, full of drama, highlighted by Punk's spectacular elbowdrop from the top rope all the way down to the announce table on the floor. A Last Ride attempt was countered with a shot to the head with the urn, but eventually, Undertaker won the match with his traditional Tombstone, taking his winning streak to 21-0. Of course, we now know that this was Taker's last WrestleMania victory (to date). The problem is that, the way the match was built with only a few weeks hype, nobody in that arena and nobody watching on TV gave Punk a prayer of beating Undertaker. Now that might be because of the way he has been positioned while he was champion and the way he lost cleanly to The Rock at the Royal Rumble that year. Punk's complaints about creative and his positioning in the company do have credibility here. However, while Undertaker v Punk was the best actual match on the show, it was not the match that should have gone on last for many reasons. Firstly, Taker is getting old and literally only wrestles on a show once a year. There would have been niggling doubts about how good a match he could produce at this stage of his career, and the last thing that the WWE would have wanted was for the final match of WrestleMania to be a stinker. Secondly, Lesnar was a big draw and interest point, wrestling in his first WrestleMania since 2004. And finally, The Rock was the marquee star of the show, most likely the highest paid performer and the man who would have drawn in casual fans and given WrestleMania its requisite mainstream star to garner widespread publicity. When the WWE ran WrestleMania X-8 in 2002, they put Triple H v Chris Jericho, the Undisputed Championship match, on last, as it was believed that the title match should always go on last. However, two matches prior to that, Hulk Hogan took on The Rock in what has gone down in history as one of the most dramatic matches in WrestleMania history. I was there live and I have never experienced such a constant wall of noise in all my life. By the time Triple H and Jericho came out, the crowd were totally burnt out and the match was a damp squib. WWE learnt their lesson that day and have also ensured since then that the last match one is always the one with the most intrigue.