#9 CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy
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CM Punk’s second entry on this list come from his 2009 feud with Jeff Hardy.
In this angle, Punk turned heel and showed a new side of his personality to the WWE audience and certainly grabbed their attention. This was the first time that Punk had used his straight edge lifestyle to look down on the rest of society, who use intoxicants and got him the heat he was looking for.
He could not have had a better opponent in this angle than Jeff Hardy, whose problems with substance abuse were well-documented. Although this seemed only to be an edgy angle to the audience with some truth thrown in to build Punk as an arrogant heel, a video emerged a year or so later of Jeff Hardy dissing CM Punk, suggesting that there were real issues between the two men.
Although CM Punk has never commented on this, it certainly seems that there were genuine ill-feelings outside of the ring, at least on Jeff Hardy’s side.
