Biography
Phillip Jack Brooks, better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler, sports commentator, actor, and retired mixed martial artist, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a wrestler and to Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC) as a commentator. In wrestling, he is best known for his time in WWE, where his 434-day reign as WWE Champion stands as the sixth-longest in title history.
Brooks began his professional wrestling career in 1999 on the independent circuit, mainly with Ring of Honor (ROH), winning the ROH World Championship once. He signed WWE in 2005, and won the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship three times, and the Intercontinental Championship and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once each. Brooks also won the World Tag Team Championship, becoming WWE's 19th Triple Crown Champion; the fastest wrestler to achieve this feat, in 203 days. He is also the only back-to-back Money in the Bank winner, has headlined several WWE pay-per-view events, won Superstar of the Year at the 2011 Slammy Awards, and was voted Wrestler of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. After becoming disillusioned with WWE, Brooks acrimoniously departed the company and retired from professional wrestling in the wrestling 2014 year.
Brooks has used the CM Punk moniker for his entire professional wrestling career, and his character has been consistently portrayed as outspoken, confrontational, sharp-tongued, anti-establishment, straight edge, and iconoclastic, most of which are inspired by his real-life views and personality. Depending on his alignment as a hero or villain, Brooks has emphasized different aspects of the straight edge lifestyle to garner the desired audience reaction.
After retiring from professional wrestling, Brooks pursued a career as a mixed martial artist, and he signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A welterweight, he had his first professional fight at UFC 203 in 2016, losing via submission to Mickey Gall. He then lost his second fight to Mike Jackson via unanimous decision at UFC 225 in 2018 (later overturned to a no contest), and was subsequently released. Brooks then began appearing as a commentator with Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC), and as an analyst on the Fox Sports 1 program WWE Backstage.
Brooks had his first leading acting role in the animated film The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015), and has since starred in the horror films Girl on the Third Floor (2019) and Rabid (2019), and in the drama television series Heels (2021–present). As of January of 2024 CM Punk works for the World Wrestling Entertainment and WWE Network.
Filmography
all 330
Movies 302
TV Shows 28
self 7
Voice 1
WWE Hall of Fame 2025 (2025)
Stephanie's Places (2025)
WWE's Greatest Moments (2025)
WWE LFG (2025)
WWE Raw Classics (2025)
WWE Bad Blood (2024)
WWE Bash in Berlin (2024)
WWE SummerSlam 2024 (2024)
WWE Money in the Bank (2024)
WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain (2024)
NXT Deadline 2023 (2023)
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2023 (2023)
AEW All In: London (2023)
AEW All Out (2022)
WWE Rivals (2022)
AEW Awards (2022)
AEW Revolution (2022)
AEW Full Gear (2021)
AEW Grand Slam (2021)
AEW All Out (2021)
Heels (2021)
Jakob's Wife (2021)
The Firefly Funhouse Match (2020)
AEW Unrestricted (2020)
Rabid (2019)
WWE Backstage (2019)
Girl on the Third Floor (2019)
AEW Dark (2019)
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (2019)
The Evolution of Punk (2016)
CM Punk: Icon (2016)
The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)
ROH: Year 5 (2015)
ROH: Year Four (2014)
WWE SummerSlam 2013 (2013)
WWE Payback 2013 (2013)
WWE WrestleMania 29 (2013)
ROH: Year Three (2013)
ROH: Year Two (2012)
WWE Main Event (2012)
WWE SummerSlam 2012 (2012)
WWE No Way Out 2012 (2012)
Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time (2011)
WWE Vengeance 2011 (2011)
WWE SummerSlam 2011 (2011)
The John Cena Experience (2011)
WWE SummerSlam 2010 (2010)
WWE NXT (2010)
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009 (2009)
WWE SummerSlam 2009 (2009)
WWE The Bash 2009 (2009)
WWE Backlash 2009 (2009)
Hard Knocks (2009)
WWE Unforgiven 2008 (2008)
WWE SummerSlam 2008 (2008)
ROH: Stars of Honor (2008)
WWE No Way Out 2008 (2008)
WWE Armageddon 2007 (2007)
WWE No Mercy 2007 (2007)
WWE Unforgiven 2007 (2007)
Inside MMA (2007)
WWE SummerSlam 2007 (2007)
WWE WrestleMania 23 (2007)
WWE ECW (2006)
WWE WrestleMania 22 (2006)
ROH: Redemption (2005)
ROH: The Homecoming (2005)
FIP Payback (2005)
FIP Sold Out (2005)
FIP Unstoppable (2005)
FIP In Full Force (2005)
FIP Bring the Pain (2005)
FIP With Malice (2005)
FIP New Dawn Rising (2005)
FIP Florida Rumble (2004)
ROH: Joe vs Punk II (2004)
ROH: Gold (2004)
PWG: Rocktoberfest (2004)
ROH: At Our Best (2004)
ROH: The Last Stand (2004)
ROH: The Conclusion (2003)
MLW War Games (2003)
MLW Hybrid Hell (2003)
ROH: Do or Die (2003)
MLW Revolutions (2003)
TNA Xplosion (2002)
WWE SmackDown (1999)
Raw (1993)
PWG Sells Out: Volume 1
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
Bloodstained Honor
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Information
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1978-10-26 (46 years old)
Birth Name
Phillip Jack Brooks
Birth Place
Chicago, United States
Religion
atheism
Height
185-centimeter
Relationships
Lita (2009 - 2010), April Jeanette Mendez (2014 - 2014), Maria Kanellis (2005 - 2007)
Spouse
April Jeanette Mendez
Siblings
Mike Brooks
Citizenships
United States
Residences
Lockport, United States
Also Known As
C.M. Punk, The Second City Saint, Straight Edge Superstar, CM Punk, The Best in the World, Chick Magnet, Phillip Jack Brooks
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