The Cult of CM Punk

The CM Punk storyline has been a great one, it may be moving fast but it has bought us a lot of excitement and been a lot less predictable than usual storylines. Recent events are looking to get more interesting in this “Triple H Era.”

Comic Con

The other day at Comic Con CM Punk gate-crashed a WWE/Mattel conference, he entered and confronted Triple H who was heading the conference. It was a funny and brilliant moment that is better watched than just heard about.

So on that note click HERE to see the video of that moment!

Raw

Well last night’s Raw was pretty lacklustre but it did have its good moments. Oddly the show opened with the WWE Championship match between The Miz and Rey Mysterio. It was a good match which saw Rey win the replacement WWE Title, it’s exactly the same as the old one. Del Rio did once again try and cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase but was foiled by Rey. Del Rio was able to get away before he had officially cashed in.

Rey’s celebration spilled backstage as other face characters greeted him, congratulated him and sprayed champagne. Rey had a small interview with Josh Matthews basically saying that he is bringing the gold home to his kids. All this seemed too much and would obviously lead to something bigger later in the show. John Cena was last to congratulate Rey.

Mid show saw Triple H come out to do some major announcements in regards to re hiring and retuning Characters and Superstars. He first presented to the WWE the return of good ol JR. Michael Cole was not best pleased and came forward with a rant about how he refuses to work next to him. Triple H came forward with the idea of just firing Cole but due Cole’s giant severance plan it wouldn’t be a smart idea. He then pointed out that if Cole refuse to work though he would there for be in breach of contract. He offered Cole the night off from commentary but Cole said he was going to stay, Trips then said that Cole would be late to his match that he is booked in for if he stays, and that he has ring attire waiting for him backstage. Cole then left to get ready.

Truth was next out to interrupt with a funny new gimmick of talking to two imaginary people to his right and left. He did his usual talk about conspiracy. Triple H played along with this in an even more humorous way by also pretending there were imaginary people with him. This lead to Triple H announcing the return of John Morrison who has been out on injury, Truth and Morrison slugged it out. This should lead to a great match down the line.

One other thing that Triple H announced was that Rey will be defending his newly acquired WWE Championship at the end of the night against former Champ John Cena.

After the Ad break Cole came out to Triple H’s King of Kings music in Triple H attire. He did a very silly version of Triple H’s entrance. His opponent turned out to be the Internet wiz, the Superstar with tones of online fans, not to mention thousands of Twitter followers, it was “Woo, Woo, Woo” Zach Ryder. A very short match but a good way to bring Zach forward.

Jump to the end of the show with (In my opinion) a very entertaining match between Rey and Cena, very back and forth and was a nail biter. It ended with Cena (once again) taking the WWE Championship. He celebrated in the ring when his music cut out and Cult of Personality by Living Colour played. The crowd, Cena and we at home were all rather confused on who it was for. Cena stood in the ring looking around for anyone this could be for. When the person it was for finally walked out I jumped out my seat. CM Punk made his way slowly to the ring, absorbing the cheers from the crowd. Wearing his new Red and White shirt and a new Red and White Titantron animation to match this looked like a new and refreshed CM Punk. He also of cores had the proper WWE Championship. Punk came to the ring and stood in front of Cena. Cena raised his championship to a medium sized cheer from the crowd; CM Punk then rose his higher and got a bigger cheer.

It was the image of the two in the ring together that closed the show.

So WWE throw yet another curve ball, I feel it is very early for Punk to make the return, it also leads me to wondering where exactly things are heading, and will things fall back into their old ways?

Obvious direction that they are heading in is Cena vs. Punk at SummerSlam but they could have done more with this and how many twists can they really have? They will have to stick with some more substantial storylines again at some point to help lead to these twists before they run out of ideas.

Questions for you.

Where do you think this story is going?

What do you think is next?

Do you feel happy with the coming Triple H Era?

That’s all for now Matty.D signing off.