WWE: CM Punk Failing Miserably in His Attempt to 'Save WWE'

CM Punk's worked-shoot promo on Raw at the end of June was supposed to change the WWE landscape forever. It was supposed to be the thing that changed the way business was done because finally the company was giving a voice to the people who have felt alienated with the current product.

And, for a short period of time at least, WWE was different. The storytelling was as sharp as it has been in the last five years, and the Money In the Bank pay-per-view was as flawless a show as WWE has ever run thanks to the way John Cena and CM Punk owned the main event.

The story was set up for the next six months. Punk had left WWE with the championship and would be gone a suitable amount of time before he made his triumphant return.

Instead, Punk was gone one week, WWE burned through at least three months of storyline in one week, and Punk feels like just another WWE guy trying to be edgy. But he really isn't that cool or original anymore because he has to tell you that he is edgy.

Punk has done a number of interviews since that promo at the end of June, and in every one of them he talks about wanting to bring about change to WWE. He wants to make things better for the fans and the wrestlers that work in the back who have talent but get buried because they don't have the right look.

In an interview with the Toronto Sun that was published on Sunday, Punk kept on saying the same things that he has been saying for the last two months:

"There are some people who think CM Punk would have been a mid-carder in the Attitude Era. They have this predetermined assessment of me,” said Punk. “I don’t know if it’s jealousy. I don’t have six-pack abs and I can’t bench press 400 pounds. I can’t believe I have to step over people to get their attention. They have an antiquated way of seeing things.

“I’m trying to save this business.”

Every frustrated WWE fan can relate to what Punk is saying, but when you watch him on TV he comes off as a WWE worker saying WWE things.

No longer is Punk the edgy and original wrestler that we saw at the end of June. No longer is he doing all that he can to save the business.

No, he is now like every other WWE worker who gets to use some more colorful language than most of the other wrestlers do because WWE thinks that is what we want to see.

Punk should not be just another guy, though.

If Punk wants to "save" WWE, he needs to be the guy that he was on that night in June and at Money In the Bank. He needs to say shocking things that actually resonate with people. He needs to stop making insider references that a very select few fans in the audience know what he is talking about, and use his time to talk about how he is going to make things different.

Until Punk gets back to being that guy, he is just like every other stale and boring WWE worker that has made the business so stale over the last five years.