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#3 AJ Styles vs CM Punk
The Phenomenal One and the Voice of the Voiceless may have never stepped foot in a WWE ring together, but they're certainly not strangers. As you can see above, AJ Styles and CM Punk had faced each other before in Ring of Honor in the early 2000s.
In 2010, Punk was just wrapping up his work with the Straight Edge Society, about to take over leadership of the Nexus, and was on his way to WWE's Summer of Punk. The Second City Saint was a year away from his famous "pipebomb" promo and becoming the most talked-about star in the industry.
If AJ Styles had found his way into WWE around then, there's little doubt that these two would have eventually met up in the ring together again. It was around this time that WWE was taking a chance on putting the spotlight on some of their smaller, more athletic performers - 2011 not only saw Punk as WWE Champion, but Daniel Bryan as World Heavyweight Champion and Cody Rhodes as Intercontinental Champion.
AJ Styles would have fit perfectly in this scene and could have put on incredible matches with anybody in this photo (yep, anybody). Since coming to WWE, he's had some pretty damn good matches with the two guys pictured here still in the company: Kofi Kingston and Daniel Bryan.
Would this match have changed the landscape of pro wrestling? Well, it's easy to say "probably not" but, with CM Punk, you never quite know what's going to happen. And, between the Best in the World and the man Stone Cold Steve Austin once called the "best wrestler on two feet," that's a recipe for magic.
