Wrestlers With The Most World Titles (Across All Major Federations)

3 World Heavyweight Championships

2 WWE Championships

1 ROH Championship

CM Punk has arguably done enough in his 15-year career to be considered one of the most important and accomplished pro wrestlers of his generation.

His promo work was one of a kind, his wit second to none. He's the kind of heel that makes faces look like heroes (Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio, The Rock) and the kind of face that makes heels look like arch-villains (Vince McMahon, Chris Jericho, Paul Heyman). Inside the ring, he was as skilled as they come. Two of his matches earned a five-star rating: his 60-minute epic against Samoa Joe in ROH and his game-changing match against John Cena at Money In The Bank 2011 (two five-star matches may not seem that impressive nowadays but they came at a time when Meltzer wasn't so generous with his ratings).

Yet he could've been more. If WWE had played to his strengths, trusted and fed his creativity and really positioned him as the top star in the company (which he *was*), who knows if we wouldn't be calling Steve Austin the CM Punk of his generation? Punk's breakthrough in the summer of 2011 came about at the start of a three-year booking plan involving John Cena and The Rock. The company seemed to take as an inconvenience what was a once-in-a-generation gift: the spontaneous birth of a megastar. Instead of being made the centre of the play, Punk was simply written in as a secondary character to the main story, and never rewarded for catching the brass ring. He retired in 2014, and never wrestled the WrestleMania main event he deserved.