Greatest 21st Century Wrestler - 1st Round D - CM Punk vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

[Death By Looch]

FIRST ROUND - BLOCK D

#8 CM Punk
VS
#57 Shinsuke Nakamura

Who enters Round 2?
You decide!

Voting is open for at least 7 days
(October 27th)​

 

[Chris]

I went Punk and expected to vote for him for a few rounds but wow I actually had to think here. If I was only rating Shinsuke's NJPW stuff he'd probably take it but the WWE run really hurts him and I think it's def Punk. I don't even think Punk's 7 years out hurt him much for me, he's had two really strong returns and I'm still at worst 50/50 on his good/bad in AEW both are just insane peaks and valleys both ways

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Shinsuke Nakamura is the definition of a WWE somehow making a home run hire into a fucking single base hit with how badly they botched the handling of his run.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Despite me souring on Punk a little bit after the AEW stuff, I still was a really huge fan of his, and I’ll honestly probably will be again. I already don’t have any ill will towards him. So I voted for Punk.

 

[Lethal]

Punk easily. The summer of Punk, SES, BITW, phenomenal runs that were preceeded by ROH. Shinsuke peaked in NXT after a great NJPW run and hasn't hit those notes on the main roster