WWE: This Is Getting Interesting

I am fairly certain I said something similar to just what happened last night on Raw.

"However, if a new champion is crowned, CM Punk is still going to lay claim to the championship. He never vacated the title and technically Vince was relieved of his duties before Raw when on air, if you want to follow the storyline. So, if Hunter comes out and says that everything Vince said last week is false, the Punk is still the WWE champion. This could get interesting very quickly."

Yep, I did call it!  Knew it.  Also, this:

"Even better was they posted the video on their site. What does that matter? First, that they were recording it and knew it would happen (which their footage is shit compared to the others on the net) and second that it is part of the story. They could have let the independent youtubers of the world post it on their and let it game notoriety that way, instead you gave away the best part. CM Punk is still under contract with the WWE and posting the video on your site was the worse thing you could have done to prolong the story. Dumb move, WWE, dumb move."

I mentioned that CM Punk was not going to just leave and take a vacated title with him.  This angle was just getting good, so obviously he resigned either short term to finish up this angle or he actually signed a full contract back with the WWE, now that they understand that he is marketable.  I told you he would make a claim on the title and I knew that since WWE.com posted that video that he was contracted.  Picking up the pieces, one piece at a time.

Well, I was on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and was reminded that this angle is similar to one from Wrestlemania X.  Shawn Michaels Intercontinental Championship was vacated after he didn't defend it in 30 days (one of the rare times that that rule was applied).  Razor Ramon won the title during a tournament and Michaels claimed that since he never lost the title, he was the rightful champion.  That led to a ladder match at WM10 to crown the true champion, which Razor Ramon ended up winning.

The differences in the angles are definitely there.  CM Punk started this angle by claiming that he was under-utilized and that he hated the company and was going to leave the company with the title.  Never saying what would happen after he left, it was claimed that Vince stripped Punk of the title and was going to crown a new one.  The match never happened that week and Vince was fired only to be replaced with Triple H.

I figured that since CM Punk left and never lost the title and never violated the 30 day rule, he was still champion and would make that claim no matter what.  Cena wins the title again (holy shit, rather shocking) and he is going to claim that he is the champion.  Both are right, but both can't be right.  There can't be two champions.  Hmm, this sets up another match at SummerSlam to determine the rightful champion?  Shocking part two.

WWE is slowly starting to pick up the ball finally.  They are picking up this angle pretty much how we wanted it.  Punk is the champion and Cena is not.  It sucks that Rey Mysterio was caught in the middle of it... again.  However, if Punk loses the title at SummerSlam, I actually might get pissy about it.  Why do you need to keep Cena as champion.  Punk can carry the company just as well as Cena, he has PROVEN it over the past month.  When your buyrates come back and say that you made a lot of people buy MITB just because of Punk, then you probably should take advantage of it.

Anyway, that's all for now.  Adios.