WWE World Champion CM Punk lastly received to get pleasure from a championship run. After dropping the title in a couple of minutes due to a Seth Rollins cash-in months again, the Voice of the Unvoiced entered Monday Evening RAW final evening as champion. WWE gave Punk followers extra to rejoice, revealing his uncommon feat which will by no means be duplicated.
Since his return at Survivor Sequence 2023, CM Punk has been on the hunt for championship gold, or concerned with RAW’s prime belt in some style. His authentic run with the corporate noticed him seize the World Heavyweight Championship on three separate events, in addition to the WWE Championship twice.
Together with his win at SummerSlam, CM Punk truly achieved one thing which may by no means be met once more. Together with his victory at Saturday Evening’s Essential Occasion, WWE’s official social media web page congratulated Punk on being the one man to carry their authentic World Heavyweight Championship and the present World Championship.
“@cmpunk is the one man to carry each variations of the World Heavyweight Title and each look so proper!”
Punk’s first three World Heavyweight Championship runs got here throughout the Ruthless Aggression and PG Eras. He gained and cashed within the Cash within the Financial institution twice, beating Edge and Jeff Hardy with the briefcase. He and Hardy would battle backwards and forwards by the summer time of 2009, with Punk getting his third reign off of Hardy once more earlier than the Charismatic Enigma left the promotion.
What different WWE Superstars may pull this off?
Few stars from Punk’s authentic period are nonetheless wrestling at a excessive stage at this level and time. Even fewer are literally wrestling within the firm in the mean time.
For now, the one different rivals within the promotion who may meet CM Punk on this particular mountain are John Cena and Rey Mysterio. With Cena a bit over a month from retirement, it is extremely unlikely the 17-time World Champion holds one other title once more. Rey Mysterio returned to RAW final evening, cleared and prepared for motion for the primary time since April.
At 50 years outdated, Rey in all probability will not seize the World Championship once more earlier than he hangs his boots up for good. He is additionally extra taken with setting his enterprise with Intercontinental and AAA Mega Champion, his son, Dominik Mysterio.
There may be one different identify that might theoretically pull off profitable each variations of the promotion’s World Championship: Jeff Hardy. With the WWE-TNA partnership going effectively, they might reignite certainly one of Punk’s biggest rivalries.
In all probability not, however they might. Congratulations to CM Punk for such an unbelievable accomplishment!
Edited by Greg Bush
