Since Lesnar obv isn't going to be there every week, makes sense that Axel gets involved with Punk a bit.
They might also have Punk miss next week because of his kayfabe injury, too.
I thought CM Punk did a great job looking like the fighting underdog in that brawl... Because damn does he look scrawny up against Brock lol.
I thought it was a good personal promo between Punk and Heyman, and I marked huge when Lesnar's music hit and knew we were about to get a brawl.
I'm predicting we'll get two or three matches between the two, with Punk losing every single one of them except the last one. Punk's role in this story against Brock, which was highlighted last night, is that even if he looks like the underdog and even if he loses at first, he'll still keep coming back until he wins. He got owned last night but as you could see at the end, he was refusing medical attention and no doubt he'll keep asking for more until he manages to put down Brock. Booking/match wise, this seems to indicate to me that he'll put up a good fight but lose at Summerslam.
Maybe he'll sell a kayfabe injury after that and miss the next PPV, Night Of Champions.
Then he'll return and he and Brock will rekindle their feud at Over The Limit. That match could end up being a Last Man Standing match where it ends in a draw when neither guy can answer the ten count (doubt this, as we just got this ending at Extreme Rules), or where Brock just barely gets up before the 10 count. Think of how Triple H and Jericho were both laid out in their LMS match at Fully Loaded 2000 and HHH got back up to his feet right before the last count. This shows how close Punk is to keeping Brock down. The feud by this point also gives meaning to the PPV name Over The Limit.
And this now leads to the finale, which is wrestling in a HIAC match at the PPV of the same name later that month. And this is where Punk pulls out everything he has to finally put Brock down and defeat him. Punk walks out on his own two feet while Brock is seen limping away on spaghetti legs from the punishment he took. Punk can give a promo the next night talking about how it may have taken him two tries but he did what he said he'd do, and that's put down Brock Lesnar.