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Benoit was told to put over CM Phil, and he went ahead and did it in the grandest way possible.
No way was Punk ever getting pushed as a top guy in the fed before Benoit did that. After the negative publicity, especially surrounding the drug influences, Vince was looking for a guy he could promote as definitely not a roid user or a pill popper, and here was this lanky-ass, malnourished looking indy guy who proclaimed he was straight edge and was capable of telling it to the media over and over again.
Punk should pray to Benoit every day for giving him a career.
