Ranking The Biggest Rivalries In Wrestling Every Year 1990-2020

10. 2011 - CM Punk Vs WWE

Cm Punk Vince Mcmahon
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CM Punk worked through an all-timer promo checklist when he when he crossed his legs atop the ramp at the end of a typically redundant 2011 edition of Raw.

He namechecked the unnamecheckable, collated then distributed every word on the known banned list, acknowledged the family and friends beyond Vince McMahon that were in charge of a product freewheeling towards mediocrity, and even stared through a forth wall he'd long broken before a sardonic wave to Colt Cabana.

He also came up with a new nickname for himself, a label for this iconic moment, and sold a pay-per-view and all its epic stakes.

'The Voice Of The Voiceless' had dropped a "Pipe Bomb" to set up his WWE Championship match with John Cena at Chicago's Money In The Bank. The damage after this truly magnificent month-and-a-half has been dissected ad nauseam, but it'll never get old reliving Punk's rage against the broken machine.

 
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