“I’m expecting this one to go the distance.”
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CM Punk
Phillip Jack Brooks, better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler and actor. As of November 2023, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand and is the current Undisputed WWE Champion in his third reign. Brooks is known for his outspoken and confrontational straight edge persona, which is based on his real-life experiences. His second reign of 434…
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entertainment · American professional wrestler (born 1978) · writer · professional wrestler · actor · mixed martial arts fighter · comics writer · also CM Punk, Phil Brooks, Phillip Jack Brooks, Sien Ponk, Punk
Born 26 October 1978 · Q215447
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2026· 19 entries
“It was a breaking point on both sides and something that needed to happen, and it needed to happen dramatically. Things happen for a reason, and I”
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“My wife and I are the same in every respect. We”
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“Just doing this, I won... Just stepping foot in the Octagon, that”
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“I just like to take challenges. It was a hell of a mountain to try to climb, and I didn”
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“Okay, okay! Honestly, you fucking DICK, get the fuck away from my car, or I´ll eat your dog!”
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“I don't know if you guys know this but I'm sort of a big deal.”
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“I'm going to pull my car around, Joe's is going to throw him out the front door and I'm gonna run the son of a bitch over! If he kicks at two, I'll drive that car right into the ocean.”
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“You dumb bitch, I'm not holding a microphone!”
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“Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk.”
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“I am officially a member of The New Breed!”
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“Unlike you Edge, I show respect to my opponents!”
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“There is no god, and the cage wasn't 30 feet.”
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“I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.”
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“s official account, and was also announced during the opening of that night”
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“You should be dead. You could have died”
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Public attention spiked: 16,201 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.1× the usual 2,654, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: World championship reigns (2025–present)
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Public attention spiked: 41,561 Wikipedia readers in one day, 15.7× the usual 2,654, with 15 article edits. Editors noted: removed info better suited for body and fixed grammar
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Punk defeated Breakker to retain the title
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2025· 1 entry
Punk wrestled his first match on Raw in almost eleven years, where he defeated Seth Rollins
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2024· 1 entry
At the Royal Rumble, Punk wrestled his first televised WWE match since 2014, entering at number 27 during the Royal Rumble match, in which he was the runner-up after being eliminated by Cody Rhodes
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2023· 3 entries
Punk made a surprise return to WWE in his first appearance in WWE since 2014 (discounting his appearances on Fox's WWE Backstage in 2019)
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Teaming with FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) to defeat Samoa Joe, Jay White, and Juice Robinson in a six-man tag team match
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“The only thing I took advantage of at Extreme Rules was an opportunity to cash in my Money in the Bank contract, which I did successfully, well within the rules. You know, Jeff knows this, you know this, the fans know this: nowhere on that contract does it say, under any circumstances, 'Do not cash in on Jeff Hardy.'”
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2021· 2 entries
Punk made his debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) at The First Dance event on Rampage, challenging Darby Allin to a match at the All Out pay-per-view event
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“2012 crossover event Avengers vs. X-Men and described the opportunity as a”
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2019· 5 entries
Punk made a surprise appearance on the Fox Sports 1 series WWE Backstage
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Punk appeared in a masked disguise at an event held by independent promotion MKE Wrestling, where he helped Ace Steel win a match by attacking his opponent with the GTS
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Brooks filed a counterclaim against Colton in June 2019, for $600,000 (equivalent to $755,564 in 2025) and additional fees.
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Punk stated that he wasn't seriously considering a UFC return
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“t seriously considering a UFC return. Although he believed White would permit him a third fight, Punk said if he were to fight again it would be at a lower level, citing his 0-2 professional record. Three years after the bout, it was made public that the result was overturned to a no contest, returning each man”
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2018· 5 entries
Punk signed with Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC), a UFC affiliate, as a commentator
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Against Mike Jackson, in his hometown of Chicago
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Where a jury ruled in favor of Brooks and Colton
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“Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend... I shouldn't say fat, that might offend him, but he's Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts.”
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Which was later overturned to a no contest; he never fought again and retired in August 2021
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2016· 1 entry
It was announced that Punk would face Mickey Gall in his first professional mixed martial arts (MMA) contest, but he was diagnosed with a herniated disc and underwent surgery days later
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2014· 2 entries
Punk announced that he had signed a multi-fight contract with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
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Brooks retired from wrestling but returned in 2021 when he joined All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he won the AEW World Championship twice
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2013· 3 entries
– intervened to save Cena from Big Show's assault, Punk attacked The Rock, turning heel in the process
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Brooks wrote a foreword for his friend and ex-girlfriend Natalie Slater's cookbook Bake and Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans
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“s cookbook Bake and Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans. In February 2015, Marvel Comics”
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2012· 1 entry
Punk successfully defended his title against Ziggler despite Laurinaitis acting as the outside enforcer
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2011· 1 entry
Punk and The New Nexus cost Randy Orton his match with The Miz for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble as revenge for Orton prematurely ending Punk's first World Heavyweight Championship reign in 2008
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2010· 1 entry
At WWE Fatal 4-Way, Punk challenged for the World Heavyweight Championship against Mysterio, Big Show and the champion Jack Swagger, but he was unsuccessful when he was attacked by Kane, who was accusing various people o
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2009· 1 entry
“I'm sorry, Jeff, I'm a little taken back right now. I mean, this is… this… this is what it comes to? People actually cheering because you haven't failed a drug test in a year? This is not an accomplishment! Maybe it's an accomplishment to you, Jeff, so congratulations. You haven't failed a drug test in three hundred and sixty-five days. You can start writing your Hall of Fame speech right now.”
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2008· 1 entry
And 2009 (making him its only back-to-back winner), was named Superstar of the Year at the 2011 Slammy Awards, and was voted PWI Wrestler of the Year in 2011 and 2012
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2007· 3 entries
“Thanks for your questions, Elijah Burke, but I like to keep my reasons for joining The New Breed to myself.”
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“You know, there's one other thing I don't do, Vince. I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace.”
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“Hey Rob. I think you should challenge a real New Breed Leader. Me!”
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2006· 9 entries
Defeating Stevie Richards at a Philadelphia house show
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When the original card had to be scrapped due to Low Ki leaving ROH the week prior
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“Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo. you see dead people?”
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“Mike Knox, I am also getting real sick of this! Your problem isn't me staying away from your girl... Your problem is your girl staying away from me!”
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“I came here to hunt ghosts and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.”
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“This going out on the Internet? I'm huge on the Internet! Wrestling nerds one and all are helping us out!”
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“Maybe the ghosts have a glass ceiling? Break through that glass ceiling ghosts! I plan to.”
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“Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?”
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“People like to come up to me and tell me that I've got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren't just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system. See I'm not some punk kid looking for the next thrill. I'm a highly disciplined athlete, craving to compete with the very best. My obsession is competition and my addiction is wrestling. My name, is C...M... Punk.”
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2005· 4 entries
Against long-time friend Colt Cabana in a two out of three falls match, which he lost
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“It's a good time to be CM Punk right now.”
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And won the World Heavyweight Championship three times, the ECW Championship, the WWE Intercontinental Championship, the WWE Championship twice, and the World Tag Team Championship once each
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“Doubt fucks everything. Take a foundation, no matter how strong, sprinkle generously with doubt, and watch it crumble. Me? I'm unfuckwithable. Not this knee, not bad weather, and certainly not the many men that wish bad intentions on me can stop me. I rise up, not like a phoenix, but like the zombie corpse of Dick Murdoch. This brain-buster is for you.”
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2004· 1 entry
Punk had a physical scuffle with Teddy Hart outside of a restaurant that was broken up by Sabu
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2003· 1 entry
“Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE”
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2002· 5 entries
In a gauntlet match involving five participants, that was won by Bryan Danielson
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Where he and Steel defeated Derek Wylde and Jimmy Rave and The Hot Shots (Cassidy O'Reilly and Chase Stevens) in a three-way match to qualify for the tag team Gauntlet for the Gold later in the night, with the winning te
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Winning the ROH World Championship once, and was inducted into the ROH Hall of Fame in 2022
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Punk became the International Wrestling Cartel (IWC) Heavyweight Champion, in Monroeville, Pennsylvania
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Shortly after his WWE return, or the reaction to Triple H in Madison Square Garden a few months before that upon his return from a torn quad
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1997· 1 entry
The day before his 19th birthday, defeating Brawn the Lumberjack
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1978· 2 entries
Born 1978-10-26.
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“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”
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