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Originally Posted by James Steele
The staph infection and concussion tests are the only things I feel warrant outrage and anger. The rest is just him feeling he was held down when he was pushed harder than anybody not named Cena in the past decade. All the "business side" anger comes from the fact that Punk needs to accept the fact that despite being a better "worker", he isn't the level of superstar that Cena/Rock are and Daniel Bryan was a bigger star than him at the time of his walkout.
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Punk makes a lot of valid points in the way he, and other superstars, were used in the WWE over the past couple years.
Punk was made WWE Champion and given the longest reign of the modern era - he is also the only one to outsell Cena's merchandise. But he was never given the position as "the guy." How many PPV's did he main event during his record breaking WWE Title reign? How many of those were with John Cena?
Punk really did deserve the WWE Championship match at WrestleMania 29. A triple threat match would have been fine. I don't know who they would've had to face Undertaker - they could have done Brock vs. Taker a year early, and then had Brock beat him in the rematch the following year. Plenty of other options as well. But Punk was still red hot as the WWE Champion, and the storyline of Punk wanting to keep his record breaking title reign, Rock wanting the title, and Cena wanting his victory over Rock would've made perfect sense - plus all three of those guys played off each other so well.
I don't think he's denying that Bryan was more over than he was by the time WM 30 rolled around. I think what he's upset about is that the WWE wasn't going to recognize that Bryan was over and deserved a spot in the main event, but he was going to get passed over for part-timers, just like Punk had been passed over for part-timers for the two years prior.