Saying Punk was a failure is saying you buy in to WWE's reasons for him being a failure.
Punk, as champion, was expected to do what no other superstar or champion has done since Stone Cold, and that was bring in viewers and ratings every week on RAW at the 10 o'clock hour. Punk never lost more viewers than the E usually loses at the top of that hour.... but he never made Austin-like gains, and WWE got fed up with his inability to do that. Nevermind that Summer of Punk was a total botch by the E from the moment Nash walked in to when Hunter got the eventual rub from Nash in that angle.
Daniel Bryan a failure? Because he had one reign which ended with a screwjob to set up a feud? Bryan's pops, in every single arena, have been louder than anything the E has heard since Rock's return and before that since Cena had a major portion of the adult male audience behind him. Again, WWE has botched on Bryan in this entire feud by not capitalizing or by spending what is now 2 PPV's without a WWE Champion. How is Bryan the failure when the E is the one prolonging his crowning?
You guys say a lot of very ridiculous things placing all of the blame on the talent and not considering for one moment that the company actually can do wrong... and does.
BTW, what was so "tainted" about Punk's MITB victory over Cena? Because Cena jumped out of the ring to knock out Ace? Ace's presence caused a distraction of Punk so that when he rolled into the ring, he got locked in the STF... so by all counts they were dead even in the distraction factor and that weighs out to a fair fight.
I agree with pretty much all of this post it is just something I get fed up of saying as it leads to these tedious back and fourths. But it is fair to say that I don't agree with deezy's idea that it is more the talents resposible to make something happen, than the management's to give them the platform to do it.
I guess Cena does have charasma, but I would still say that the likes of Punk and Bryan are much better when it comes to promos.