Why CM Punk will win the 2014 Royal Rumble

Big Show’s attack on Cena continued, until The Rock finally ran down to make the save on Cena’s behalf. Cena then battled CM Punk and Big Show in a triple Threat Match at Summerslam. Despite Cena’s great efforts, he would once again come up short to CM Punk. Cena got a second chance for the WWE title at Night of Champions, where the match was ruled a draw, and the title was once again retained by Punk.

After an arm injury sidelined Cena at Hell in a Cell, Cena made his return at Survivor series in a Triple Threat Match against CM Punk, and Ryback. Again, despite many opportunities for Cena to win the title during the bout, the match would be ruled a draw after The Shield attacked Ryback in their WWE debut.

Cena then faced Punk again at The Vengeance Pay Per view, only to lose again to Punk, this time by pin fall. Cena’s biggest downfall however, came at WWE TLC, where Cena looked poised to capture Dolph Ziggler’s coveted Money in The Bank briefcase, before he was betrayed by AJ Lee, who knocked him off the ladder, allowing Ziggler to win the match.

Looking over those stats of John Cena, you will notice he also spent the year jobbing for young and upcoming talent in the WWE. In fact, Cena didn’t only have a record of 3-7 in pay per view matches in 2012, but also never held the WWE title in 2012 either.

But all that changed at the 2013 Royal Rumble, when John Cena defied the odds once again and won the 30 many bout by eliminating Ryback in the closing stages of the match. John Cena then went on to battle The Rock a WrestleMania 29, and recapture the title that eluded him for all of 2012.

With the year that CM Punk has endured, one can only hope this will be the case for him as well in 2014. Signs look particularly promising that this will happen, especially with a feud with Ryback on the horizon to help Punk gain momentum for the Royal rumble in January.

With Punk’s 2013 being very similar to Cena’s 2012, a logical guess would be that the WWE will be repeating the redemption storyline, starting at the Royal Rumble. From there, it is literally anyone’s guess who will have the honour of facing Punk at WrestleMania 30, or even what kind of storyline they build the match around.

My hope is that the storyline will be CM Punk joining the baby faces of the WWE and fighting The Corporation, along with many of their goons. It would be interesting to see if the WWE decides to revive his old 2011 role as The Voice of the Voiceless for the new storyline, but with Punk’s excellence on the microphone, and his ability to have great matches no matter the situation or opponent, it seems like the WWE could put him in any storyline and it would work perfectly.

The only real problem I see with raising Punk back to the Main Event card, is what will happen to Daniel Bryan then? Will the WWE just kill off his momentum and stick him back in midcard and filler matches? Or could the WWE find a way to stick Bryan into Punk’s storyline as well? Maybe a Triple Threat, or even Fatal Four Way Match for the WWE Title at WrestleMania 30.

I know the possibility of this happening is looking very slim at the moment, especially with the newly formed storyline between CM Punk and Ryback set to culminate at WWE Battleground next month. But instead of looking at his feud with Ryback as just another storyline in the never ending soap opera of the WWE, look at it as just the thing Punk needs to get him over and give him the push to win the Royal Rumble.