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Daniel Bryan flies off a forklift at Extreme Rules. |
Look back at CM Punk's year-plus reign as WWE champion. His feuds were rarely the most pushed issues in WWE. On pay-per-view, he only went on last if he was wrestling John Cena, or Cena wasn't on the card.
One time, at SummerSlam 2012, they did wrestle each other (in a Triple Threat match with Big Show), but Punk still didn't get to go on last as Brock Lesnar
vs. Triple H closed the show. He was booked as a top guy, but he
wasn't booked as anything close to the most important guy on the card.Cena also got a lot more leeway in his matches: He was the guy who got shortcuts or special props. Punk wasn't the guy beating up John Laurinaitis for 20 minutes.
Punk didn't get to use blood, but Cena and Lesnar both bled heavily in the Extreme Rules 2012 main event. Punk didn't get any of the gimmicks Cena got to use in his subsequent title reign, such as an exploding entrance set or a gimmicked, breakaway ambulance that looked uncannily like the genuine article.
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