The Best In The World.

"I used to call myself 'the best there ever will be,' but objectively - if you went out to the ring and asked a guy to show you something new every night, it would only be CM Punk today." - Bret Hart

Punk. All day. Every day.

One of the beauties of characters, wrestling or otherwise, is that the support for them changes from person to person and for different subjective reasons. The characters, themselves, are just singular microcosmic symbols for the ideologies that they stand for. The reason for why CM Punk is one of my top three wrestlers of all time is for that exact reason: Because he and I share an incredible amount of mutual philosophical tenants, struggles, and flaws; We don't drink, we don't smoke, we don't do drugs, we're both incredibly opinionated, neither of us are built like soldiers from Ancient Sparta, we both have a serious issue with authority, and through all of what we've both survived - we're still underappreciated by our contemporaries.

Characters and their stories may be fictional but the ideas perpetrated by both are very real and very applicable to real life. That's why fiction matters because it is a commentary, intended or not, on who we are as a culture and where we are in our lives at any given moment. For that reason, the characters who we positively associate ourselves with are all that needs to be known about us in my opinion.