The problem is that his statements are often illogical and even the older fans who rail against Cena find it hard to agree with him. Take his tirade of Cena shortly after "Over The Limit", saying the reason he joined Laurinaitis, the man who made the giant get on his knees and cried, was that all Cena did, after Show suffered for nothing but to get fired, was to make jokes and seemingly sweep it under the rug; that was only partly the case, as among the jokes at Laurinaitis's expense, Cena made it perfectly clear to "Johnny Ace" shortly after his firing of Show that he'd crossed a major line, but Show just seems to ignore that part.
However, this past Monday, Show was in the ring with a more solidly verbose opponent in CM Punk, who had no problem in pointing out the fallacies of Big Show's raging crusade, citing that regardless of all the mayhem and destruction he reeks in the ring, Show always ends up a hair short of his true goal. Punk notes that he's defended the WWE Title for over 200 days and has fended off challenger after challenger and garnered the respect of all WWE's fans, whereas all Big Show has, in Punk's words, is "an ironclad contract and the respect of no one."
Show, oddly enough, just laughs it off, saying he's never cared about the fans respecting him, and even feels like the fans don't respect themselves; he feels they are so fickle that when they're bored with a solid entertainer like Show or Punk, the fans stop caring about them and leave them in their wake. And here's the kicker to that statement: Show essentially states if that you're in the WWE and not named John Cena, you're in for the long haul. Show warns Punk that the moment he loses the WWE Title, he'll become the butt of the joke like Big Show has, be shuffled off into the background and become just another "cog in the machine."
You could tell by the hesitation in Punk's voice that, for a moment, he wanted to agree with Show, because a lot of what Show said was what Punk argued about the year before; the "soul-crushing status quo", the business revolving around John Cena, stating he's the best in the business, something that ate away at Punk, made him snap, and made him cut loose on everything he hated about the WWE and its manipulations.
It's started to show again; in the last several months, Punk has put on some of the best wrestling matches and fights in his career, against Chris Jericho, Daniel Bryan, Kane, Mark Henry, the list goes on...and yet? He and the WWE Title take a passenger seat to John Cena and his personal vendettas with the Rock (justified, as Wrestlemania was in Miami, Rock's hometown), Brock Lesnar (Somewhat justified, as Extreme Rules was in Chicago, Punk's hometown, but Lesnar's WWE return was seemingly more prominent), Big Show (Not really justified), and John Laurinaitis (Not justifiable in the very least). Even the MITB PPV, Punk's shining moment of 2011, this year saw Punk's stellar match with Bryan pushed out of the final main event slot, with Cena's MITB win taking center stage.
Fans have even pointed out on social media sites like Twitter the ridiculous notion of Punk's WWE Championship matches not being in the main event, complaints Punk has tried to assuage by telling them that he can "work first, work hurt, and can (out)work anybody."
Are those the words of a truly confident champion who feels solidly entrenched in the limelight of the WWE fans, or are they the words of a man who is 5 days away from possibly seeing the "soul-crushing status quo" reassert its dominance at his expense?
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