Question by The Lord of Darkness: What are/were the Problems with the Chris Jericho vs CM Punk Feud?
Name as many as you want, but I’d rather elaboration and knowledgeable insight.

Some problems that I find:
-Match Predictability: If Jericho didn’t win at Mania, where would he win? Extreme Rules, in Punk’s home town? No. As soon as Jericho lost, he wasn’t winning at all. CM Punk should’ve lost to Jericho at Mania and regained it at Extreme Rules (or even No Way Out if they have a match there).
-Segment/Promo Predictability: This feud has been total garbage and is quite boring. Each week, they essentially argue about “Punk’s father is an alcoholic” “Punk’s sister has substance abuse” “Punk, you will become just like your family” etc, etc. It’s nothing but this every week and is said in a different way. Until he hit Punk with that bottle – that was great! Until they spammed us that segment by either repeating it the next week (may be wrong here) and bringing it up after every ad break.
-Continuation: Punk can’t be intoxicated through alcohol within 12 hours of holding the championship? Better take away the title reigns of almost every big name of the Attitude Era.
Let’s not get into that unfinished “end of the world as you know it” flop.

This whole feud has, to me, been a flop and disappointment.

What about you? What are/were the main problems?

Best answer:

Answer by John Cena The Last Stand
I was like waiting for this feud to start when Chris Jericho returned at 2nd January 2012 and to be frank, the feud was great and enjoyable and their matches at Wrestlemania 28 and Extreme Rules were high quality matches. But every feud must have its problems….

What problems do I find during this feud:
1) Chris Jericho didn’t win at Extreme Rules. Why does Chris Jericho need to win at E.R? To make him the top heel in WWE by defeating CM Punk at CM Punk’s hometown as well as to make Chris Jericho relevant especially about his vignettes about his returns.

2) WWE doesn’t emphasize on the Jericho/Punk’s feud. They are more concerned about John Cena/The Rock and John Cena/Brock Lensar’s issues therefore overshadowing Jericho/Punk’s feud which makes it less relevant as people tend to watch the main feud in WWE so like what I said, overshadowing the Punk/Jericho’s feud.

3) The issue of CM Punk “drunk” on Raw before Extreme Rules was just pathetic. I like CM Punk’s acting but it makes CM Punk looks like a fool when he did the test. Also Chris Jericho asking for the WWE Championship to be awarded to him is not the old Chris Jericho. I look at the replay of the Sobriety Test and shook my head. That test was totally irrelevant to the feud. Doesn’t make any sense in the first place.

Answer by WS Historian
I honestly think there were no problems in this feud. In fact, I find it’s very interesting feud, and it sure does elevate CM Punk into a bigger star. Before his victory in his feud against Chris Jericho, CM Punk was never solidfied as WWE Champion. Sure, he holds the WWE Championship, but he defended it against Raw’s mid carders such as Dolph Ziggler and Alberto Del Rio. You may call them main eventers, but to me they truly lack of star power, not even close to Chris Jericho’s. That makes CM Punk’s WWE Title reign seems so meaningless.

I know I might get a lot of thumb downs writing this, but this is what my personal thought on the feud. I know Chris Jericho losing 3 straight PPVs to CM Punk seems so ridilicious, even worse he hasn’t won any PPV match since his grand return in 2012.

But, it’s the RIGHT thing to do. Yeah, it’s so predictable if Jericho doesn’t win at WM 28, then it’s a guarantee he won’t win WWE Championship and I agree it would have been pretty nice to see Jericho win at WM 28 and had Punk regain it at Extreme Rules. But, anyway I think having CM Punk always winning against Jericho is a very good move. Why?

Because having Chris Jericho win at Wrestlemania 28 would really make CM Punk look weak. Like I stated above, CM Punk hasn’t had a meaningful title defense. Second, CM Punk could be in danger of losing all his credibility like he did in 2009, when he was buried by The Undertaker. It took 2 years for CM Punk to recover. WWE surely doesn’t want this repeats on CM Punk since WWE wants him as their next Face of Company. And third it has been a while since we saw a long WWE Title reign. It has been The Miz is the last one to have a long reign, but still it’s just 5 month. It’s nothing compared to back in 2007-2008 when John Cena held WWE Title for 380 days, Randy Orton and Triple H hold WWE Title for 7 months. I just hope CM Punk will hold WWE Title for around 9 months, maybe finally losing WWE Title at Summerslam 2012. That would be very nice. I really miss lengthy WWE Title reigns like JBL back in 2004. That adds the prestige of the gold.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

 

 

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