Is CM Punk stalling?

Wrestlemania 29 saw the culmination of the hottest period in CM Punks career.  This all started 3 weeks before the Money in the Bank pay-per-view 2011 when punk made his famous "Best in the World" shoot, live on Raw.  It lead to the biggest win in his a career as he defeated John Cena in the main event of MITB for the WWE Championship, in his home town of Chicago. 

After this CM Punk would become a 2 time WWE Champion and have the longest title reign in modern history.  During this time CM punk did battle with Cena, Chris Jericho and The Rock, amongst others.  It would also see him join forces with his long time real life supporter Paul Heyman, creating a villainous and highly entertaining double act.  After 434 days as WWE Champion, Punk lost his title to The Rock.  This was not the end for Punk however.  His next challenge was to beat the illustrious streak of the Undertaker at Wrestlemania.  He failed.

After Wrestlemania CM Punk took some time off.  Punk returned to action on June 16th at WWE Payback in a successful outing against Chris Jericho.  After telling Paul Heyman he no longer wanted him to accompany Punk to the ring, a furious Heyman turned on Punk and set the Beast Brock Lesnar on him which created a red hot feud that lasted right through the summer, culminating with a classic encounter with Lesnar at Summerslam.  Despite losing, the match did CM Punk a world of good but really should have ended the feud with Heyman.  This is where the wheels start to come off.

 

Since Summerslam, Punk has had a handicap match with Heyman and his protege Curtis Axel which ended with the bore fest that is Ryback driving Punk through a table allowing Heyman to pick up the win.  This resulted in a Punk vs Ryback match at the next pay-per-view, Battleground.  This was one of the most unconvincing performances by Punk since his return in June.  So bad in fact that neither man used their signature finisher and the finish came after CM Punk delivered a low-blow behind the referee's back. A 1998 finish if ever I saw one.

The problem is that every opponent that Punk has faced since Lesnar, seems to have less heat with the fans.  This is resulting in CM Punk's momentum being considerably decreased.  If WWE don't finish this Heyman feud soon Punk will find himself in the same position he was at Wrestlemania 27.  Stealing the show but not the title....

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