Phil Brooks

Biography

Phillip Jack Brooks, widely recognized as CM Punk, is a multifaceted American professional wrestler, sports commentator, actor, and former mixed martial artist. Currently, he is affiliated with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a wrestler and serves as a commentator for the Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC). Punk gained immense fame during his tenure with WWE, where he notably held the WWE Championship for an impressive 434 days, marking the sixth-longest reign in the title's history.

Punk launched his wrestling journey in 1999, primarily competing on the independent circuit and achieving success in Ring of Honor (ROH) by capturing the ROH World Championship once. He joined WWE in 2005, where he won the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship three times, and also claimed the Intercontinental and ECW World Heavyweight Championships once each. Punk became the 19th Triple Crown Champion in WWE history, achieving this distinction in a record time of 203 days. Renowned for his back-to-back victories in Money in the Bank, he also headlined numerous WWE pay-per-view events and garnered accolades such as Superstar of the Year at the 2011 Slammy Awards and Wrestler of the Year honors from Pro Wrestling Illustrated in both 2011 and 2012. Following a turbulent departure from WWE in 2014, Punk announced his retirement from professional wrestling.

Transitioning to mixed martial arts, Punk signed with the UFC, making his debut at UFC 203 in 2016 but faced setbacks in his fight career. He later took on a role as a commentator for CFFC and contributed to the Fox Sports 1 program WWE Backstage. In addition to his wrestling and MMA endeavors, Punk ventured into acting, lending his voice to the animated film The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015) and starring in horror films such as Girl on the Third Floor (2019) and Rabid (2019), along with the