Punk absolutely outshines both HBK and Styles in the promo department and he outshines them in such a way that it makes up for any perceived or real shortcomings in ring. They aren't even in the same galaxy with Punk in the mic.
when I first started get tapes of BattlARTS back in the 90s (man Im old) it blew my mind to see the style because it was so deep in psychology of working body parts, etc but there was also a lot of "pro wrasslin" coming from exclusively seeing AJPW, etc it was a shock
they will allow all of them because they are afraid of confrontation. they like to make unanswerable insults like blaming the offense and the fans when the blame really lies on their shoulders.
you sound like the kind of person who knows just enough about absolutely nothing to be dangerously stupid
it was a horrendous matchup analytically speaking and it was a horrendous decision managerially speaking.
