I really am enjoying this feud, maybe its just the comparison of it with the stale Orton and Triple H feud but its been played really well from the start.
CM Punk (babyface) cashes in his MITB on Jeff Hardy (babyface) after Jeff had finally won the World Title again. Jeff who is known as a career screw up and someone who always blew his chances saw his chance at a good long reign shattered, as Punk said though, it was just smart on his part. When you win MITB you win the opportunity to cash in whenever you want, he did it 12 months before against Edge and everyone loved him for it, because Edge was unpopular. From Punk's perspective it was the Golden moment, after a Ladder Match he knew Hardy would be weak and he would have his best chance of winning and he did, smart or heelish?
Interviews and in-ring segments involved Hardy attacking Punk because he's not happy with Punk's explanation, who's the heel here?
A title defence by Punk on the 3 hour RAW was successful after Hardy thought he had the match won with Punk injured on the outside, but he had just enough in him to grab the win, cleanly.
Punk's carried on facing heels defeating the likes of Chris Jericho as well as babyfaces like Mysterio.
A few nights before his 1-on-1 title defence against Hardy he faced John Morrison (in a superb match) losing a very close bout, after he nailed Morrison with the GTS but immediately looked remorseful, as the commentator said, sometimes GOOD people do BAD things, Punk's a good guy. Later he was a Guest Referee in the Tag Main Event of Mysterio/Hardy vs. Edge/Jericho. Hardy got pinned when he was distracted by Punk, by distracted he looked at him and that briefly took his mind off the match and Edge who nailed him with a spear, Punk's fault?
Then to his title defence, Hardy pinned him when his foot was under the rope. The referee immediately noticed his mistake, if he hadn't then Punk would have been robbed. Hardy then lost his temper and ended up catching Punk in the eye blinding him, Punk having lost his bearings a bit accidently hit the referee and got disqualified, these mistakes can happen right? Punk belives in competition and winning fairly. Afterwards Hardy attacked him, clearly frustrated, but Punk was an injured man, surely Hardy is being heelish there, attacking a wounded guy.
Unfortunately on Superstars the injury flaired up again and he had to quit his match with Edge, that's just smart though if he had of carried on he could of suffered long term injury, maybe even being forced to vacate his title, this happened 12 months ago when Orton attacked him so clearly he is a little worried and why shouldn't he be.
On Smackdown he asked for an apology from Jeff since it wasn't right Hardy attacking him when he was hurt, did he get it? No. Punk retorted to Hardy about how he should "Just say no", clearly referring to his drug induced past, but as a Straight Edge superstar, things like that obviously annoy him, he prides himself on being clean.
In the Main Event he was struggling with his injury trying to walk it off and unfortunately he kept missing the tag from Hardy, but he did get in there eventually, and when he tried to tag Hardy back in, Jeff mocked him, faking an injury, making fun of Punk, clearly Hardy has his wires crossed because he thinks Punk is faking. This all lead to Punk getting speared and pinned as Hardy made no effort to help him.
And that's the feud so far, an interesting dynamic and I'm intrigued as to where they will take it next and when they will pull the trigger on Punk's heel turn...
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