The Many Faces Of CM Punk Ranked - From Worst To Best

by John Bills

1. The Voice Of The Voiceless

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Simply put, CM Punk's cross-legged promo on the top of the stage on Monday Night RAW at the end of June 2011 is the best promo in modern WWE. By his own admission, Punk was given a microphone and told to go out and air his grievances, and what followed was five minutes that re-ignited the fire lost within a huge swathe of the fanbase.

CM Punk became the self-proclaimed and universally acknowledged Voice of the Voiceless, the vessel through which the complaints and grievances of the WWE Universe could truly be heard. Punk stood up to John Cena, he stood up to Vince McMahon, he stood up to Triple H, and he did it all on his own terms. He became the biggest wrestling anti-hero since Stone Cold Steve Austin in the process.

This period may have ended on a Kevin Nash-flavoured sour note, but the importance and value of it can't be denied. It made CM Punk a top tier superstar for the first time in his WWE career, and arguably put in motion many of the changes that we see in WWE TV today. The word 'pipe bomb' has been used to death by this point, but every time CM Punk was given a microphone in the summer of 2011 you felt as though things were getting a little more dangerous.

This is the CM Punk we all miss.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.