5 greatest unscripted moments in WWE history

#4. CM Punk's Pipebomb Promo

CM Punk is known as one of the best talkers in WWE history, and his infamous promo from June 27, 2011 will likely go down in history as his greatest moment.

Unsurprisingly, the whole promo was unscripted. Vince McMahon permitted him to go out and air his grievances for John Cena and the audience, and Punk did not hold back.

Punk spoke about the "Pipe Bomb" promo a few years later and told SPORT1 Wrestling:

"All of it (came from him personally). I had to make an outline for Vince and I didn't say anything I wrote in the outline, I just know that I needed him to agree and then I went out there and said whatever I wanted. I knew what I wanted to say, I knew I wasn't stepping over the line and I knew nobody was going to be pissed at me. The thing with live television is, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission."

The Pipe Bomb promo is still talked about today, more than a decade later. It was the moment that launched CM Punk into a new stratosphere and put WWE back into mainstream consciousness arguably more than it had been in years.

The frustrations that led to that legendary promo eventually pushed Punk to walk out of the company. He would not wrestle for seven years before making his debut for AEW in 2021.