WWE: Will WWE Recreate Austin vs. McMahon With CM Punk and Triple H?

I dare you to ask anybody what the greatest feud in the history of professional wrestling is.

Everybody already has it on the tip of their tongue. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Vince McMahon.

WWE nailed in the late '90s with the epic storyline of disgruntled employee against dictator boss.

It has been often duplicated in WWE and professional wrestling promotions across the world, but none have come close to topping the epicness that was Austin vs McMahon.

Yet WWE finally has an opportunity to not just rehash this storyline but to take it to the next level with CM Punk and Triple H.

We salivated from the mouth each week on RAW as we tuned in to see our favorite anti-hero square off against the larger-than-life dictator.

As great as the idea was, it wasn’t just the fact that it was employee against boss with each trying to one up the other. The reason Austin and McMahon provided us with the greatest feud was because of what they were able to do each and every week.

We remember the countless authorities and McMahon goons like Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco trying to hold back Austin.

We remember Austin hitting Vinny Mac in the head with a bed pan, running over his limousine with a monster truck and shattering his prized convertible by filling it with cement. We idolize Austin for the beer bath.

These moments were enhanced by McMahon being Austin’s boss and allowing millions of people who desire to do the same to live through Austin, but each moment stands out as its own.

If any of these segments happened in other feuds, they too would feel special.

WWE has gotten away—far away—from these type of moments through the years, except for a select few individuals.

Triple H and his buddy Shawn Michaels have always gotten away with just about anything they wanted. With Triple H taking the reins as on-air CEO, we could be headed towards a new era in the WWE.

Enough of this pathetic PG-rated nonsense. Fans are dying for the Attitude Era. Just like McMahon and Austin ushered in the Attitude Era with their epic feud, Triple H and current anti-hero, renegade free agent and WWE Champion CM Punk have the opportunity to do the same.

WWE is reinventing the wheel with their current CM Punk free agency storyline. Punk is roaming the streets in Chicago and is ambushing Triple H and WWE employees on the streets and at events such as San Diego’s Comic-Con.

WWE is embracing the Internet Wrestling Community, the same community it used to loathe. They are using the community’s desire to scour the Internet for the latest updates in their favor for one of the few times in company history.

We just got our first glimpse of what could be one of the most defining feuds in WWE history.

Triple H and Punk have the ability to trump McMahon-Austin. We have a new age Chairman who has done everything there is to do in this industry.

“The Game” has truly played this game better than just about anybody in industry history. We have the “Cerebral Assassin” against the current wittiest man in the business.

More importantly, he still has what it takes to go toe-to-toe with Punk in the ring. This time it’s more believable than McMahon-Austin. Better yet, it’s not even employee against boss just yet.

Punk is unemployed as we like to say in the real world. He can ambush Triple H all he wants for now and get away with it as he holds the WWE Championship hostage.

This puts a new twist on the entire storyline. Triple H himself can also put a new twist on the storyline. Instead of seeing some old out of shape geezers like Brisco and Patterson, Triple H can enlist The Kliq: Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman and Shawn Michaels.

They may be old, but at least they would be more feared than the likes of Brisco and Patterson.

Above all else, Triple H knows what it takes to get over in this industry. He understands that every week there needs to be something special, something to get the people talking.

He used to do it every single week with D-Generation X and would be willing to go above and beyond the call to make this the single greatest feud in the history of feuds.

Nobody is calling for Punk to be Austin or Triple H to be McMahon. We don’t want that, but we do want more of what we’re seeing. Triple H once did the rebellious things Austin did.

He too would make McMahon’s life a living hell. He knows people cherish these moments—the moments that define careers such as his.

Punk crashing Comic-Con as a free agent holding the WWE Championship is something only the most rebellious of souls would do.

Triple H and WWE understand that, which is why it is imperative they take advantage of this epic storyline that is presented to them on a gold platter.