Phil Brooks

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 All Elite Wrestling AEW 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 434day reign as WWE Champion stands as the sixthlongest 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 WWEs 19th Triple Crown Champion the fastest wrestler to achieve this feat in 203 days He is also the only backtoback Money in the Bank winner has headlined several WWE payperview 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 sharptongued antiestablishment straight edge and iconoclastic most of which are inspired by his reallife 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 2021present As of January of 2024 CM Punk works for the World Wrestling Entertainment and WWE Network