[Raw 7-28-14]

JAMIE NOBLE *CLAP CLAP CLAP*

[Raw 3-3-14 - Raw in Chicago]

So Bryan's gonna actually pull double duty at Mania, huh? 

[MARCH WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD]

Hasn't he? We've (not much, I admit) heard Punk chants during Bryan's matches. The title feud between Orton and Batista is getting the Punk treatment more than the Bryan treatment. Maybe Punk hasn't taken Bryan's heat but it certainly seems like he's leached off it to make himself seem like the victim. A lot of fans will now feel like they've won if/when Punk gets inserted in the title match. Imagine that scenario six weeks ago when the crowd was dying for Bryan to win the Rumble and didn't seem to be all that bothered about Punk being in there at the time. 

[MARCH WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD]

Punk has played the whole thing like a dream, completely stepping on Bryan's heat in the process. Make no mistake, the guy's a political player on the level of all the internet baddies. I wouldn't care but for the fact that so many of his fans seem to feel he's been hard done by. If it just leads to the uninterested CM Punk of the last 8 months then what's the point? Really, without getting too into armchair booking mode, the best way to salvage this would be to have Punk win the title, go corporate and then have Bryan chase, but as someone already said, I get the impression Punk cares too much about his "voice of the voiceless" persona to go suit and tie. I'm still just equally impressed and pissed off that he managed to somehow take a good chunk of Bryan's post-Rumble heat and put it on himself. What a hero.