It's time for another edition of "Stars in Progress" where I follow today's wrestling superstars as they rise and fall from the ranks of WWE, TNA and at times, in life in general. This week, I take a look at how the Kevin Nash/CM Punk story turns a complete 180 degrees, a Smackdown star that suffers by the hands of "Super Cena", two other Smackdown stars that helped and hurt each other, a giant and a Samoan taking each other up, and more.
The basis of this column is simple for those that didn't catch the debut edition last week: I look at a select number of wrestlers and/or storylines over the past week and decide whether they took a step up or down in terms of storyline, creative direction and progress.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.