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#3: CM Punk- Raw 2011
Few would have thought when CM Punk sat at the top of the stage at the end of an episode of Raw in 2011 and picked up a microphone, that he was about to change the face of the wrestling industry in the modern era.
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Punk's iconic pipebomb promo that night shook the industry to its core and kickstarted the Summer of Punk, arguably the company's best creative period this decade.
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Seeing Punk speak his mind about the state of the backstage politics in the WWE, and how individuals like himself have just been looked over for years hit a cord with the 'smarks' of the world and was the first time the WWE had broken the fourth wall in such a way in their history.
Punk's later relationship with the WWE may have left some with a sour taste in the mouth, but his 2011 run is one of the finest face/anti-hero runs in recent WWE history.
