For those of you skeptical about CM Punk and "ball dropping"

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Originally Posted by Next Big Thing How can you say the WWE has fucked up if we haven't even had the payoff/ conclusion of the storyline yet?

How can someone say that WWE fucked up? CM Punk goes from being the hottest thing in wrestling in probably ten years, with people begging him to come on ESPN and getting into the likes of GQ magazine, to completely and utterly losing any and all mainstream coverage when WWE turns Punk from his self-made character and storyline into a WWE-style character in a WWE-style storyline. He was enormous, and WWE threw it away for their regular shit booking.

WWE fucked up. Did they ruin Punk for die-hard WWE fans? No. I still stand by my opinion that Punk will mean nothing come the Rumble, but I'm open to that not being the case. But they ruined him for fans who returned to watch him, and fans who ordered Money in the Bank and SummerSlam who normally wouldn't order PPVs. And that's a bigger problem, and shows a lack of willingness and wanting to expand away from their comfort zone to make money.