CM Punk: 8 Talking Points About His WWE Chicago Raw Return Tonight

6. Will There Be Locker Room Resentment?

Everyone in WWE not named John Cena probably has a gripe with management and the way their character is handled. The likes of Dolph Ziggler and even Randy Orton have all expressed frustration with the company in the past. It's part of life and something we all handle in the wider world, we have work related issues that we all deal with in a constructive manner. Unless your name is CM Punk it seems. The fact that CM Punk was able to take off from work for a month, spending time watching UFC in Las Vegas while the rest of the roster worked their tails off to carry Mania season and the Network launch isn't fair. Punk hasn't been a team player. For him then to walk straight back into the company free from reprimand with a new contract and major spot for Wrestlemania isn't going to go down well. What kind of message does that send to everybody else? Say Daniel Bryan is unhappy with his creative (which he surely is) should he just take off for a while? Of course not. Look at Randy Orton for the first half of 2013, creative gave him nothing, he was feeding on scraps. Did he walk out demanding better? No, he stuck the course, eventually being rewarded with an elevation back into the main event. CM Punk has gone about things the wrong way, the conclusion that the locker room will have is that Punk and WWE feel that he is bigger than all of them. Everyone has troubles but they work through them, Punk instead left WWE in the lurch and will now get a Mania main event. You can see why sections of the locker room aren't going to be happy, but then again, he will long term fill arenas which will see everyones pay go up.