Have you opened Wrestling Twitter in the last week? If so, you’ve probably seen a barrage of rumors about WWE allegedly wanting a match between CM Punk and Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania. If you’ve seen those, you’ve probably also seen a horde of wrestling fans celebrating like we’re getting Bret Hart and Kurt Angle squaring off in their primes, but I don’t get why they’re so excited at all. In fact, I think CM Punk and Stone Cold Steve Austin fighting at WrestleMania 40 is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard, and I’m baffled other people don’t feel the same way I do. Let’s talk this out.
Before we get into my personal views though, let’s back up and talk about how we got here. CM Punk made a surprise return to WWE last weekend at Survivor Series in what has to be a top 100 all-time WWE moment. I cover wrestling for a living and had no idea it was happening. I felt like a little kid again, and clearly, millions of other people did too, as his return set all kinds of wrestling-related social media records. The next few days was a flood of stories and videos about Seth Rollins allegedly not being happy about his return, and the general consensus become almost immediately that we’d see Punk and Rollins in the Main Event of Night 1 at WrestleMania 40.
