CM Punk and Drew McIntyre haveactually been involved in a bitter competition because last November. (Credit: … [+] WWE/Getty Images)
Drew McIntyre got the veryfirst leg up on CM Punk with a success at WWE SummerSlam, however this one is not over yet—not by a long shot.
With Seth Rollins, a bitter competing of both stars, serving as the unique visitor referee in Cleveland Browns Stadium, it was Punk’s problem with Rollins—laid out by Punk with a GTS—that enabled McIntyre to hit a 2nd Claymore kick to choice up the win on his longtime bane.
The long-awaited veryfirst battle inbetween 2 of WWE’s greatest stars endedupbeing less about the problems inbetween McIntyre and Punk and more about Rollins, the X-factor and opponent of both stars. But this was constantly going to be the veryfirst of numerous more fights pitting the questionable Punk versus the disliked McIntyre.
And it’s wild to believe that Punk vs. McIntyre was truly simply a pivot resulting from Punk’s injury on the roadway to WrestleMania 40.
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That, of course, resulted in McIntyre vs. Rollins at WrestleMania 40, with McIntyre pounding Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship just to be screwed out of the title minutes lateron by Punk. When Punk assaulted McIntyre and permitted Damian Priest to money in his Money in the Bank brief-case and end McIntyre’s title run after simply 5 minutes, that set off a chain of occasions that has resulted in what is far and away the finest fight in fumbling in 2024.
Punk made it his objective to expense McIntyre every chance he had to endedupbeing world champ, and most especially, he did precisely that at Money in the Bank, where he ruined McIntyre’s cash-in effort. Not just has Punk expense McIntyre the world title, however he likewise expense him a ensured world title shot and hasactually been the proverbial thorn in McIntyre’s side for the muchbetter part of a year.
The hated McIntyre has lost huge matches time and time onceagain—until SummerSlam, that is—and the 2 typical demonitors in the formula haveactually been Rollins and Punk. But as much of a