#2 Tommy Dreamer saved CM Punk’s WWE job
CM Punk won five World Championships during his time in WWE, but it is no secret that he had his fair share of doubters throughout his nine-year association with the company.
In fact, Paul Heyman – Punk’s friend and former on-screen advocate – said on a 2012 DVD documentary about Punk’s career that he frequently questioned why WWE officials did not want to work with the up-and-coming Superstar.
In the same year that the DVD was released, former ECW star Tommy Dreamer told Radar Online that he had to convince WWE's higher-ups to keep Punk on the roster in the early years of his career.
"He had little-to-no chance of ever making it in the WWE – he wasn't their type of guy. I saved his job two times when he was about to be let go – I was saying, 'Ya gotta keep this kid, ya gotta keep this kid.'"
Dreamer worked with WWE’s development talents during Punk’s time in the Ohio Valley Wrestling system, which meant he was responsible for recommending potential stars of the future to the company.