>>19586283No, the Pipebomb was about using the anti-Cena, anti-WWE smark sentiment of the time in a story as Punk was becoming their #2 guy.
From there they had two options, either pull the trigger on a corporate Cena heel turn and turn Punk into Stone Cold v2.0 as a rebel face, or mock the smarks and turn Punk into an insecure jobber heel.
They were ready for both, they even had a new song ready for heel Super Cena, but they went with the second option in the end. It's unclear why (cold feet at taking risks, Hunter hating on Punk, the Alberto del Rio push...) and the fact this is not discussed more often shows how dull that era really was.
The fact the "Summer of Punk" is named that way when he got buried in that shitty Nash/HHH story before the summer was over is hilarious.
Still the most interesting thing to happen in wrestling between Benoit's stuff and the formation of AEW. Dark years.
