Although critics felt this week’s edition of WWE RAW was a strong show from start-to-finish, there was some concern that WWE missed the boat by rushing CM Punk’s return.<\/p>\n
Insiders, however, argue that what WWE was originally planning for Monday would have been even worse at building CM Punk as a top-level star.<\/p>\n
According to F4WOnline.com, WWE’s original plan still called for Punk to return on Monday’s show, but said return would not have been limited to a staredown with John Cena. Instead, Punk’s return late in the show would have led to a confrontation with Triple H that ended in the latter’s favor.<\/p>\n
HHH was to get the better of Punk and lay him out with a Pedigree, allowing Alberto Del Rio to successfully cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase on Punk. This would have led to Del Rio vs. John Cena at Summerslam as a title match and Punk vs. Triple H as a non-title grudge match.<\/p>\n
Although the theory for this idea was that HHH would come off as a huge heel in the beating and thus give CM Punk a proper opponent against whom to build up his babyface character (rather than the babyface John Cena), the concern was that the RAW beatdown would have immediately killed Punk’s momentum.<\/p>\n
A feud and pay-per-view match between CM Punk vs. Triple H is still being discussed, but it obviously will not be as imminent as first planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n