Rachel (Ray) Davies is the first ever guest blogger to be featured on silvervision.co.uk and was picked from the many entries sent in via the Mark Silvervision Facebook page.

Wrestling fans love to complain. It’s woven into the fibre of our being...

In truth, all sports fans enjoy berating their favourite team’s coach or manager. But wrestling has a creative element which makes any fool who ever watched a wrestling show think they can do a better job than the people paid big bucks to create memorable wrestling moments. I include myself in that group and concede that all too often we concentrate far too much on the stories that failed, rather than those which went over successfully.

These past few months we were treated to one of the best played-out feuds in recent years. The stand-out story of the year must surely be CM Punk’s heel turn, which Punk accomplished once he had successfully disposed of Jeff Hardy for good after SummerSlam 2009. When CM Punk arrived at the WWE, many believed he would do no more than languish in the ECW midcard with his talents going to waste. From WrestleMania 25 onwards Punk proved those doubters wrong, winning the Money in the Bank match for the second year running.

In early June, Jeff Hardy finally won the Heavyweight Championship after an excellent run against Edge at the Extreme Rules 2009 Pay Per View. The Hardy hysteria, however, was short-lived when CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and took the title away from Hardy before he’d even had a chance to soak up the fan adoration. It was the first time since Punk’s draft to SmackDown that there had been any suggestion that he could be anything but everyone’s cool best mate. It was great.

The promise of a full Punk versus Hardy feud seemed too far away. It felt like such a perfect idea. Straight Edge against, well, very wobbly edge. On the surface it appeared that the WWE creatives didn’t quite know what to do with Punk. He was neither a good guy nor a bad guy. Punk even tried to stay friends with Jeff after betraying him; while Jeff, of course, had no interest in being Punk’s pal. The stark differences between their lifestyle choices were being tentatively skated around and I was getting impatient for something more gritty.

As July played itself out, CM Punk knocked his preachiness up a little more each week, and by the time Night of Champions 2009 came around we were being asked to look at ourselves through children’s eyes and feel ashamed of our beer-swilling selves. Jeff took his revenge for the weeks of morally superior lectures and managed to swipe the title back at that very same PPV. Their battle and the gaping chasm between their personalities became wider with each show.

It was well known that Jeff Hardy had requested a break from wrestling and had made plans to leave the company some time in the summer, much to his millions of fans’ despair. At the time, I often referred to Jeff as the Pied Piper of Wrestle World, as it seemed that no matter where he went or what he did, millions followed. On the first SmackDown after SummerSlam 2009 it was time for Jeff to bid farewell. He accepted and lost a steel cage match against CM Punk, where the loser had to leave the company for good. It allowed Jeff to depart and served to make Punk an even more effective heel.

Once the match was over, Jeff spoke to the audience, thanked them for their support and informed them that it wasn’t goodbye forever. Children sobbed. Grown women held each other. It was so enthralling that even I, a CM Punk fan, felt Jeff’s words yanking at my heartstrings and activating my waterworks. But far more spectacular than the tearful adieu was the moment where Punk appeared behind Jeff at the top of the ramp and knocked him unconscious with the title belt, which Punk had clawed back at SummerSlam 2009. The Jeff Hardy fans wept even more real tears, the Punk fans fell even more in love. This wasn’t just a battle of moral versus immoral, this was CM Punk on a whole new level of malicious. He didn’t just eject Jeff Hardy from the company, he referred to him as garbage and spat on his legacy. It was both gut wrenching and beautiful at the same time

Although, my favourite moment of the year came during the following week’s episode of SmackDown. Rumours had been circulating that Jeff Hardy’s bon voyage party had not been entirely genuine. This collective hope was capitalised upon a week later when SmackDown started with Jeff Hardy’s entrance music. The arena erupted. Kids who were probably crying in front of their television screens the previous week were electrified. I raised an eyebrow of intrigue. But the audience’s excitement was crushed once what appeared to be Jeff Hardy returning to the ring in full face paint turned out to be CM Punk in costume. It was incredible. The immense disappointment in the arena was both hilarious and genius. The whole escapade was perfectly and callously executed by CM Punk, my Superstar of the year, and I cannot wait to be told off by Punk all over again during 2010.