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#8 Career Changing: CM Punk
When people recall the legacy of CM Punk in WWE, they tend to come back to 2011, when his Pipe Bomb promo and iconic performance against John Cena at Money in the Bank threatened to position him as the top star in the company. The years to follow saw him consistently at or near the main event level, too.
While the summer of 2011 undoubtedly elevated Punk’s WWE career, there’s a fair case to be made that he wouldn’t have been in position for that run had he not first become a two-time Money in the Bank winner. Punk won the briefcase first in 2009 and successfully cashed in on Edge to enter the main event conversation. Winning again in 2010 and cashing in on Jeff Hardy to set up a heel turn further cemented The Straight Edge Superstar’s place as a guy in the upper card conversation.
