>>20054849You shouldn't take Punk at his word so much. I have no doubt that he would've cried out something to the effect of :"But no! They couldn't live with anything other than the Hollywood golden boy Dwayne putting me down in five minutes! Me! The good little soldier, down in the trenches DAILY carrying this company ON MY BACK!"
If he has the last match of Night 2 this year and the event is viewed as being one of the worst ever, on par with WM7, it's going to bother him. What I'm most curious to see are the effects that a potentially underperforming Mania might have on the Punk and HHH relationship. If Paul begins to feel more pressure from those TKO execs capable of firing him, and also loses faith in Punk's creative ideas and ability to sufficiently draw, then all the ingredients for another Punk backstage nutter-butter will be in the mixing bowl. The likelihood that they end up hating each other again is high at the moment.