Just watched the Documentary portion of the CM Punk: Best In The World DVD...
The best featurette of any superstar the WWE has ever done. The only way to describe it would be of CM Punk saying "if you're going to do a documentary on me, you're going to do it right"...it was fantastic...
First 35m is all about the Indy scene...his initial work with the LWF, IWA and eventually got real down and dirty and talked ROH...lots of ROH footage, lots of LWF and IWA footage. Very impressed.
I thought they had a lot of the right people there to make contributions.
They move on the OVW stuff and spent 7 minutes or so on that portion of his career. Got real indepth with his feelings of the place and his relationship with Paul Heyman.
The WWE stuff is in-sane-ly candid from EVERYONE. From Paul Heyman to Michael Hayes to Triple H to Jim Ross. Names weren't mentioned, but Michael Hayes and CM Punk basically call out Johnny Ace and even Vince McMahon as non-believers in the guy...Hayes even calls himself out. Punk gets very candid about a lot of the stuff that was awesome to him (SES) and stuff that really frustrated him.
Took it home with "the Promo" and the Money in the Bank match...stops right there and just focuses on Punk and where he's at in the WWE right now.
I think the raw and candid nature of it, coupled with the detailed early career makes it the best featurette work the WWE has ever done...as good as the ECW documentary, which IMO, was the pinnacle of WWE DVD releases.
The match listing is good...BUT, nothing pre-OVW. Only one OVW match (not even the best Brent Albright match) and it jumps right into his ECW career. It has some classic staples of Punk's career...his match v. Morrison on ECW TV where he won the title...the Money in the Bank at WM 24...his No-DQ match with Regal...the stuff with Mysterio and Jeff Hardy...Money in the Bank 2011...v. Jericho at WrestleMania...and v. Daniel Bryan at Over the Limit...all of those matches are 4* or better.
I only saw the DVD and the Blu Ray has some extra goodies on it in the actual featurette including working with Brent Albright and details on the December to Dismember PPV where Punk was Heyman's handpicked guy to go over before Vince got his hands on it and wanted Lashley put over.
Overall, must buy for EVERY ONE. It is just well made. Covers a lot. Steps out of the "WWE Universe" which is more than appreciated. I thought the candid nature of the quotes by unlikely sources like HHH and Michael Hayes was very good. Just awesome stuff all around. Perfect mix of "the man" (the getting to know the guy stuff), the chronicle of his career (matches, feuds, etc), and the backstage stuff.
CM Punk: Best in the World combined with the ROH release of The Summer of Punk and "Punk v. Joe" and you have 3 sets that chronicle a guys career up to this point better than anything you'll find. It basically covers most of CM Punk canon right there.