I hate the IWC sometimes...

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool The rule has existed. Both Cena and Edge had their titles stripped from the because there were both injured and could in no way shape or form defend their titles in the 90 day time period, and that was just last year. BTW, I am talking kayfabe. As far as Punk being a victim of luck, he wasn't (in kayfabe) scheduled to get beat up before the match. He wasn't planning on it, it was out of his control, therefore that is circumstance and luck, not skill and free will. Also, Adamle did come out and say the match everyone paid for won't be happening. The match people paid for had CM Punk in it, not Jericho. Another option would be have a 4 way match between the still healthy guy to see who would get a shot again Punk when he was healthy.

I think you are making up ths specifics of why Edge and John Cena were stripped of their titles. No "90-day" limit was mentioned. They were just injured, and forfeited the belt. Also, Punk wasn't stripped of the title. He was officially World Heavyweight Champion when he went into the match, but he just was not healthy enough to compete, so a fifth man went in there and essentially wrote-off his chances of defending.

Randy Orton made it an inevitability that Punk lost his World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven. It's not like Punk chose not to compete because of a minor inconvenience. There is going to be major heat there. Punk will get to run through The Princes of Pro-Wrestling, and look like a star as the WWE builds him up correctly. The moving of the title off Punk implies that the WWE wants to keep building him, which I though people around these parts would be happy with.

The biggest difference between Rey Mysterio's title reign and CM Punk's title reign is this: Rey Mysterio was pretty much getting booed when he was World Heavyweight Champion; CM Punk has gotten consistently more popular over the weeks. Punk's World Heavyweight Title reign has achieved what it needed to, and now they are switching the belt over to the best heel in the WWE, who is involved in the best program in the WWE, all the while keeping Punk from being pinned and making him look like a huge victim heading into his new top-tier feud.

If Punk had lost the WHT any other way, he'd have looked like a joke. It'd look like the WWE withdrawing from pushing Punk, and the whole "he always manages to scrape through" thing would be deflated, and Punk's title reign would have had nothing but a few months going for it. This way, Punk can claim that he should still be World Heavyweight Champion if there was justice in the world.