CM Punk Quick Facts
CM Punk is an
American professional wrestler who was born on October 26, 1978 in Chicago,
Illinois, United States. His real name is Phillipe Jack Brooks. Now his age is
about 38 years old.
His age is 1.88m.
His partner is AJ Lee and he belongs to Atheism religion. His net worth is $8
million as of June 2017. In 2005, he signed a deal with World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE) and this deal remained for about 10 years. He won WWE
Champion for two time.
He also won other
five championships including three times WWE World Heavyweight Championship and
ECW and ROH each once.
He became famous
when he became WWE Champion for long time and break the record of John Cena who
remained Champion for 380 days. He became the sixth longest Champion of all
time. He remained champion from November 20, 2011 to January 27, 2013.
Childhood & Early
Life
CM Punk was born on October 26, 1978 in
Chicago. His father was an engineer and his mother was a homemaker. He attended
Lockport Township High School.
In mid of 1990’s he fought wrestling in
Lunatic Wrestling Federation. His friends thought that it is a co-curricular
activity but CM Punk thought that he can make his career in wrestling.
CM Punk Career
Initially,
Brooks used “CM Punk” as his ring name when he made a tag team with CM Venom
named “The Chick Magnets”. This name remained with him for whole life and gave
him an individuality of his own.
He had
won many championships which includes TNA (Total Nonstop) ROH (Ring of Honour)
OVW (Ohio Valley Wrestling), ECW and WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).
Watch CM Punk Debut in WWE:
In
2002 he joined the ROH (Ring of Honour). He got limelight when his feud started
with Raven. This feud became the top feud of the year.
Early
in his career, he wrestled from IWA Mid-South (independent Wrestling
Association Mid-South). Slowly, he started arising at the top of the roster by
winning two times light heavyweight Championship and three times Heavyweight
Championship in IWA Mid-South.
Punk made his debut in ECW Championship
in June, 2006. He remained unbeaten for six months in ECW which ended when
Hardcore Holly defeated him.
He made various tries to win ECW title
but every time he defeated by Morrison. Finally, on September 1, 2007, Punk
beat Morrison and won ECW Championship title. Before losing it to Chavo Guerrero, he defended this title for three times.
Punk was drafted to Raw on June 23, 2008. In
the starting he won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship title. He defended
this title for about two months and he lost this title when he was attacked by
The Legacy. His title was lost because he could not attend this match.
Punk defeated Stephanie McMahon on January 19,
2009. He became the nineteenth Triple Crown Champion. He won Money in the Bank
ladder match at WrestleMania 25 and he became the first wrestler to win the
match for two times.
He again won World Heavyweight Championship
title by beating The Undertaker in a submission match. But he can’t submit
early and lost it from The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match.
Punk left WWE forum as dramatic as his active
years in it. He did not appear in many episodes of Raw without notice due to
which WWE removed him from promotional videos.
WWE officially removed Punk from the active
roster to the alumni page on July, 15, 2014. In next month, he thanked his fans
but he broke hearts of his fans because he said that he would never join
wrestling again.
After retiring from wrestling, he joined mixed
martial arts and he signed a deal with UFC in December. He fought first
professional fight on September 10, 2016, against Mickey Gall at UFC 203 but
unfortunately, he lost this fight via submission in first round.
Personal Life
On June 13,
2014 he married to April Mendez Aka AJ Lee.
He is an
atheist and also a reader of avid as well.
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