How long can the CM Punk- Paul Heyman feud continue?

Paul Heyman vs CM Punk

Paul Heyman and CM Punk have had quite a few entertaining and intense interactions. The seeds for the feud were planted when Punk returned on the Payback Pay Per View.

The attention on this possible and inevitable break-up between two of WWE’s noteworthy characters skyrocketed when Brock Lesnar returned to attack Punk and thus renewed the interest surrounding the long awaited fight between the ‘Paul Heyman Guys’.

Since then the proceedings of this feud between these former friends have been good so far, however, it seems harder to find a purpose to this feud every week.

I mean, how long can it be entertaining? I did not quite enjoy Punk’s promo last week. His talking style has changed a bit but that’s okay. He can pull it off, but he had nothing new to say. He is going to attack Heyman. He wants to get his hands on Heyman etcetera, etcetera.

Punk’s promo last week was very formulaic, a text book WWE babyface promo. He should rather be a textbook anti-hero. I find Punk to be much more entertaining when he is p****d off, when he doesn’t care that he’s getting booed or cheered, when he wants immediate actions to follow his promos.

He’s popular because he does not follow many WWE formulas. Telling the crowd what he feels is more like Punk. Telling the audience what he’s going to do to someone on a Pay Per View is a WWE formula. Last week wasn’t the first time he talked that way though.

CM Punk is usually the more entertaining guy in most of his feuds. But this time, arguably, Paul Heyman has surpassed Punk as far as entertainment is concerned.

All that guy has got is a terrific sense of drama, if not wrestling. His promos are always the best on every show since he’s returned. He knows when to start and when to stop. He’s never seemed like overdoing his piece. He is coherent and gets the desired reaction. Even when he screams, even when he pleads, even when falls and even when he’s attacked- his reaction is always been pure gold. Nobody’s been as consistent as him.

What this feud needs, in my opinion, is not Punk finally getting his hands on Punk, but Heyman introducing many more adversaries to make Punk’s life a living hell.

This feud should continue for these two characters have a lot of depth, but it should be elevated by Heyman trying to finish Punk and not trying to play truce.

If Punk getting his hands on Heyman has to be something special, then that action needs to be put on hold for a while. And Punk should wrestle and have a storyline with a character who can have character development with this feud and be a good roadblock for Punk to get to Heyman.

Maybe Curtis Axel can take that role rather than be a sidekick and maybe Heyman can hire one more guy or girl. Maybe in the future, Brock Lesnar can come back again to finish the job for Heyman and this time, Punk finally gets his revenge.