I feel like something's "missing" with CM Punk right now...

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Originally Posted by DAMN iNATOR It seems to me that there are two issues plaguing Punk right now: 1.) While he's still definitely solid on the mic, his promos have become boring and stale. I can see that they're trying to freshen Punk up by having him feud with Jericho and playing up the whole "Can Punk resist alcohol and stay 'straight edge' and retain the WWE Champion after everything Y2J has done to him in recent weeks?" angle, but it doesn't seem to be working nearly as well as planned. 2.) Punk seems to have also lost a lot of his charisma from last summer, when he started dropping "pipe bomb"s and fresh, creative promos that really got the fans drawn in. He was also pretty much at the peak of his in-ring performance at that point in time. If Punk could find a way to rectify those issues, he'd go right back to being one of the TRULY best wrestlers in the world today.

As pointed out by Gertner, the whole "pipebomb"/breaing the fourth wall/kayfabe deal had limited shelf life. The inside jabs were flying well over the heads of the majority of the target audience (which seems to need clarification in this thread: WE ARE NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE ANYMORE) as early as the "fued" with Nash.