5. CM Punk Does Not Return
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1REHqdnVQM In one of the most anticipated RAWs in recent years, fans across the world tuned in and attended live with baited breath, most of them, and us, just sure that CM Punk was going to return to RAW in his hometown. And that didn't happen. At all. Punk was a no-show: and this is either a disaster in the making, or some fine, fine creative work from the WWE. Perhaps Punk is coming back, and perhaps the WWE is holding him out until that key moment when his place in Wrestlemania XXX will explode, with a story coming together against Triple H that moves Daniel Bryan to the 'Mania main event title match. Or perhaps this is just a bad sign: Punk will not return, and the WWE will be forced to go it alone at Wrestlemania without their top draw. Whatever the case turns out to be, it has made for some compelling television in the last few weeks. And this week was no different: just when you thought you were getting CM Punk, you instead got the curtain pulled down over your eyes, yet again. From Paul Heyman opening the show with CM Punk's entrance theme followed by his own "pipe-bomb" style promo, to Triple H and company burying Daniel Bryan in the closing scene, again, the product on TV had yet to really suffer! WWE Creative seems to be learning that Batista is not going to draw viewers in with his return, and they are quietly capitalizing on the fact that CM Punk has all fans in a frenzy with his undisclosed status within the company.