>>13278715It's absolutely fucking insane to me that you had this entire storyline about Punk leaving the WWE, it's genuinely one of the biggest storylines, you hit it off and you have one of the best PPVs and you do (it was like top 3 in the year if I remember) and had a great house earning, then you just bring back Punk in 8 days?
It's such a weird thing where you seem to have the balls to do something crazy like that storyline, but you don't have the balls to do what wouldn't be anything crazy. So what if Punk has a title and he's defending it somewhere else? Just say in kayfabe it doesn't mean anything and its not the real WWE championship, then Punk never loses it on the indies.
It's like you lay out all these events to happen and want the money and the result of all that buildup so much that you skip over the part that's supposed to keep people interested.
The fact that this DID keep people interested probably says a lot about the fucking state of WWE and wrestling at the time though.