In terms of WWE booking, I don't really think Punk's UFC loss would hurt too much. Lesnar won his fight last year and got squashed by Goldberg.
However, I do agree that Punk wouldn't really budge on where he stands. ROH would be the #1 in my opinion. New Japan would be pretty awesome though.
To me, Bellator has kind of a bad reputation. It seems like the "TNA of MMA". Anything is possible though.
I meant in terms of being over. He'd get "2:14" chants, and people might have a hard time buying him as a credible threat. He also made pro wrestling look bad in his UFC debut.
Okay I get what you're saying. I don't know if that's an absolute. Only one way to find out though.