[Cactus Jack]

So many storylines. I got out of watching for quite a long time until the last year or so I have gotten back into it. WWE right now seems to trying to get back to the good days of the late 90 early 2000s with good storylines. Even the small scale stories are entertaining. Your take on CM resigning is spot on. I can see him and Rollins main eventing Night 1 with Punk winning and on night 2 being a factor in knocking Cody out of the title building a Punk/Reings rivalry. I also think Rhodes, being the face of the company right, will eventually be the one to dethrone Roman.
You mentioned Gunther which has truly had a great run especially after winning the IC. Going to be interesting to see who they have to take that from him, and when.

On a different topic, what do you think about Priest and MIB. I feel with the way CM Punk has now returned and the build up of him, Rollins, Roman, and Cody (even Gunther), I feel he will have a failed attempt. His moments have passed I feel. I feel they were leaning towards him cashing in on Rollins with Finn challenging Priest but now I don't feel that is the direction,.

There's going to be a swerve with Priest and the cash-in. Top of the card is just too crowded for him not to have a failed cash in. Could see it leading to some type of dissension between Punk and Balor that leads into an angle. Punk seems to be the type that would be about putting on some dream matches and then putting over some younger guys during his swan song. He's been working house shows with Dominick and the dialogue between he and Rhea could be comedic gold if they wind up crossing paths.

I love Gunther's work but as the "German" hard-ass type heel with some not always subtle undertones, I think he'll probably be pigeon-holed into the character that he has for the majority of his career. I do see him keeping the IC strap long enough to break Pedro Morales' combined record before moving into the fringes of the main event scene as a Lesnar-type gatekeeper or as someone's henchman. Great ring work but probably too stiff to work an extended program with Punk.

Like you, I'm not really sure who they'll have take the belt off of him. Probably loses it in either a banger (hate that overused term, but it works here) with a face like Breaker or to a chicken-scratch heel like a Dominick who cheats horribly to take it from him in an unceremonious way just to piss everyone off. Most likely, the person who will do it is either in or has just moved up from NXT and will get a huge rub.