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 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Let's Start a Cult as Robbie
- 2024 · WWE Bad Blood as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE Bash in Berlin as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE SummerSlam as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE Money in the Bank as CM Punk (Appearance)
- 2024 · Countdown to WWE Backlash France 2024 as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE WrestleMania XL Sunday as CM Punk
- 2024 · TKO WWE Pay Per View as C.M.Punk
- 2024 · TKO WWE Pay Per View as C M Punk
- 2024 · TKO WWE Pay Per View as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE WrestleMania XL Saturday as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff Press Event as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE Royal Rumble as CM Punk
- 2023 · NXT Deadline 2023 as CM Punk
- 2023 · WWE Survivor Series: WarGames as CM Punk (Appearance)
- 2023 · AEW All In: London as CM Punk
- 2023 · All Elite Wrestling: Collision as CM Punk
- 2022 · AEW All Out as CM Punk
- 2022 · AEW Revolution as CM Punk
- 2022 · AEW Beach Break 2022 as CM Punk
- 2022 · All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts as CM Punk
- 2021 · AEW All Out as CM Punk
- 2021 · Heels as Ricky Rabies
- 2021 · All Elite Wrestling: Rampage as CM Punk
- 2021 · Jakob's Wife as Deputy Colton
- 2020 · AEW Unrestricted as CM Punk
- 2019 · Rabid as Billy (as C.M. Punk)
- 2019 · WWE Backstage as CM Punk
- 2019 · Girl on the Third Floor as Don Koch
- 2019 · AEW Dark as CM Punk
- 2019 · All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite as CM Punk
- 2019 · All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite as Cm Punk
- 2019 · Dark Side of the Ring as
- 2018 · Mayans M.C. as Paul
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros as
- 2016 · Randy Orton: RKO Outta Nowhere as CM Punk
- 2016 · Brock Lesnar: Eat, Sleep. Conquer. Repeat as CM Punk
- 2016 · The Evolution of Punk as Phil "CM Punk" Brooks
- 2015 · The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! as CM Punkrock (voice)
- 2014 · Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name Is Paul Heyman as Himself
- 2014 · Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · The History of WWE: 50 Years of Sports Entertainment as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Hell in a Cell 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Night of Champions 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE SummerSlam 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Money in the Bank 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Payback 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE WrestleMania 29 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Elimination Chamber 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Royal Rumble 2013 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Hell In A Cell 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · CM Punk: Best in the World as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Main Event as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE SummerSlam 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Money In The Bank 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Extreme Rules 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE WrestleMania XXVIII as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Royal Rumble 2012 as CM Punk
- 2011 · Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time as CM Punk (archive footage)
- 2011 · WWE Survivor Series 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Vengeance 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · Talking Dead as Self
- 2011 · WWE Hell in a Cell 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE SummerSlam 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Money in the Bank 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Extreme Rules 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE WrestleMania XXVII as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Royal Rumble 2011 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Over the Limit 2010 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Extreme Rules 2010 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Wrestlemania XXVI as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE NXT as
- 2010 · WWE NXT as Cm Punk
- 2010 · WWE Elimination Chamber 2010 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Royal Rumble 2010 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009 as CM Punk (Preshow)
- 2009 · WWE Survivor Series 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Hell in a Cell 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Breaking Point 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Extreme Rules 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Judgment Day 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Backlash 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE WrestleMania XXV as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE Armageddon 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE Survivor Series 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE SummerSlam 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE The Great American Bash 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE Judgment Day 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE WrestleMania XXIV as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE No Way Out 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE Royal Rumble 2008 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE Survivor Series 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE Cyber Sunday 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE No Mercy 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE Unforgiven 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · Inside MMA as Self - Guest
- 2007 · WWE Judgment Day 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE WrestleMania 23 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE: The New & Improved DX as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE Royal Rumble 2007 as CM Punk
- 2006 · ECW December to Dismember as CM Punk
- 2006 · WWE Survivor Series 2006 as CM Punk
- 2006 · WWE ECW as CM Punk
- 2006 · WWE WrestleMania 22 as Cena Gangster
- 2005 · FIP Unstoppable as CM Punk
- 2003 · PWG: An Inch Longer Than Average as CM Punk
- 2002 · TNA Xplosion as CM Punk
- 1999 · WWE SmackDown as CM Punk
- 1999 · WWE SmackDown as
- 1993 · WWE Raw as CM Punk (archive footage)
- 1993 · WWE Raw as CM Punk
- 1993 · WWE Raw as
- Future · ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2 as CM Punk
- 2024 · Cm punk AEW story as self
- 2024 · Bash in Berlin Kickoff 2024 as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE Clash at the Castle: Scotland as CM Punk
- 2022 · AEW Double or Nothing as CM Punk
- 2016 · WWE: The True Story of The Royal Rumble as CM Punk
- 2016 · TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 2 as CM Punk
- 2016 · NXT's Greatest Matches Vol. 1 as CM Punk
- 2015 · Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes! as CM Punk
- 2014 · WWE: John Cena's Greatest Rivalries as Punk
- 2014 · Undertaker: The Streak 21-1 as CM Punk
- 2014 · WWE Royal Rumble 2014 as CM Punk
- 2014 · ROH: Creating Excellence as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Survivor Series 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE Battleground 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE: The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2012, Volume 1 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Survivor Series 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE RAW 1000 as
- 2012 · WWE Great American Bash 2012: Super Smackdown Live! as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE No Way Out 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Over The Limit 2012 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Capitol Punishment 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · The John Cena Experience as C.M. Punk (archive footage)
- 2011 · The True Story of WrestleMania as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Elimination Chamber 2011 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE SummerSlam 2010 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010 as CM Punk
- 2009 · Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Bragging Rights 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE SummerSlam 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE The Bash 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Royal Rumble 2009 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE Unforgiven 2008 as CM Punk (Appearance)
- 2007 · WWE SummerSlam 2007 as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Payback as CM Punk
- Future · PWG Sells Out: Volume 1 as CM Punk
- 2024 · Countdown to WWE Bash in Berlin as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE SummerSlam: Cleveland Kickoff as CM Punk
- 2024 · WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain as CM Punk (archive footage)
- 2024 · WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff as CM Punk
- 2023 · AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door as CM Punk
- 2022 · Better Than You - Complete CM Punk vs MJF Feud as CM Punk
- 2022 · GCW The Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame as CM Punk
- 2021 · ROH: Final Battle as CM Punk
- 2021 · AEW Full Gear as CM Punk
- 2021 · AEW Grand Slam as CM Punk
- 2020 · The Firefly Funhouse Match as CM Punk (archive footage)
- 2018 · UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 as Self
- 2017 · WWE: 30 Years of Survivor Series as
- 2016 · UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem as Self
- 2015 · The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J as CM Punk
- 2014 · WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3 as CM Punk
- 2014 · ROH: Year Four as CM Punk
- 2013 · WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2013 as Cm Punk
- 2013 · WWE Tribute to the Troops 2013 as CM Punk
- 2013 · Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson as CM Punk
- 2013 · ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 1 as CM Punk
- 2013 · AJ Styles: Styles Clash as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · CM Punk: The Second City Saint as CM Punk
- 2012 · ROH: The Rise of Generation Next as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Night of Champions 2012 as CM Punk
- 2012 · ROH: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk as CM Punk
- 2012 · ROH: The Summer of Punk as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE Elimination Chamber 2012 as CM Punk
- 2011 · The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Night of Champions 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE Over The Limit 2011 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Bragging Rights 2010 as CM Punk
- 2010 · TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 1 as CM Punk
- 2010 · WWE Night of Champions 2010 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Tribute to the Troops 2009 as CM Punk
- 2009 · WWE Night of Champions 2009 as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008 as CM Punk
- 2008 · ROH: Best In The World as CM Punk
- 2008 · ROH: Stars of Honor as CM Punk
- 2008 · WWE One Night Stand 2008 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE Armageddon 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE The Great American Bash 2007 as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE One Night Stand 2007 as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Punk - The Final Chapter as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Sold Out as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP In Full Force as CM Punk
- 2005 · UXW Chris Candido Memorial Show as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: The Final Showdown as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Manhattan Mayhem as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP The Usual Suspects as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP With Malice as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Dangerous Intentions as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP New Year's Classic 2005 as CM punk
- 2004 · FIP Florida Rumble as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Joe vs Punk II as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Midnight Express Reunion as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Glory By Honor III as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Testing The Limit as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Reborn - Completion as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Survival of The Fittest as CM Punk
- Future · Night Patrol as
- 2004 · FIP Emergence - Tag 1 as CM Punk
- 2004 · PWG: The Reason For The Season as CM Punk
- 2004 · PWG: Rocktoberfest as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: At Our Best as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: The Battle Lines Are Drawn as CM Punk
- 2003 · PWG: Pimpin' In High Places as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Main Event Spectacles as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Empire State Showdown as CM Punk
- 2003 · MLW Rise of The Renegades as CM Punk
- Future · Alex Shelley: Made in Detroit as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Night of The Grudges as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Do or Die as CM Punk
- Future · ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 1 - Better Than You as CM Punk
- Future · Bloodstained Honor as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE Countdown to WrestleMania XL Saturday as CM Punk
- 2019 · STARRCAST III: Best In The World - CM Punk as CM Punk
- 2016 · CM Punk: Icon as CM Punk
- 2013 · Samoa Joe: A Championship Legacy as CM Punk
- 2012 · ROH: Bryan Danielson - The American Dragon as CM Punk
- 2012 · WWE: The Best of Raw & Smackdown 2011 as CM Punk
- 2011 · WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2011 as
- 2011 · WWE Tribute to the Troops 2011 as CM Punk
- 2009 · PWG Sells Out: Volume 2 as CM Punk
- 2008 · ROH: Greatest Rivalries as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Fate of An Angel as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Escape From New York as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP New Dawn Rising as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 1 as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Gold as CM Punk
- 2004 · FIP Emergence - Tag 2 as CM Punk
- 2004 · IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 2 as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: World Title Classic as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Generation Next as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Round Robin Challenge III as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Reborn - Stage One as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: 2nd Anniversary as CM Punk
- 2004 · PWG: Tango & Cash Invitational - Night Two as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Tradition Continues as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Glory By Honor II as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Beating The Odds as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Death Before Dishonor as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Retribution - Round Robin Challenge II as CM Punk
- Future · ROH: Ring of Hardcore as CM Punk
- Future · ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 2 - Straight Edge as CM Punk
- Future · ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 3 - The Legacy Continues as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: The Last Stand as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Expect The Unexpected as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: One Year Anniversary Show as CM Punk
- Future · Interviews with a Hero: The Chris Hero Story as CM Punk
- 2024 · WWE Clash at the Castle: Scotland Post Show as CM Punk
- 2023 · CM Punk in AEW: The End as
- 2022 · AEW Awards as CM Punk
- 2016 · The Essential AJ Styles Collection as CM Punk
- 2015 · ROH: Year 5 as CM Punk
- 2013 · ROH: Year Three as CM Punk
- 2013 · Colt Cabana: Chicago's Favorite Son as CM Punk
- 2012 · ROH: Year Two as CM Punk
- 2012 · Samoa Joe: Total Domination as CM Punk
- 2007 · WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007 as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Redemption as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 2 as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 1 as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: The Homecoming as CM Punk
- 2005 · PWG: 2nd Annual Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza - Night Two as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Sign of Dishonor as CM Punk
- 2005 · ROH: Death Before Dishonor III as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Violence is the Answer as CM Punk
- 2005 · FIP Bring the Pain as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Final Battle as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: All Star Extravaganza 2 as CM Punk
- 2004 · FIP Fallout Night 1 2004 as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 2 as CM Punk
- 2004 · IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 1 as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Scramble Cage Melee as CM Punk
- 2004 · PWG: The Secret of The Ooze as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Reborn - Stage Two as CM Punk
- 2004 · PWG: Tango & Cash Invitational - Night One as CM Punk
- 2004 · ROH: Collision Course as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Final Battle as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: War of The Wire as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: The Conclusion as CM Punk
- 2003 · MLW War Games as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: WrestleRave '03 as CM Punk
- 2003 · MLW Revolutions as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: The Epic Encounter as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Night of Champions as CM Punk
- 2003 · IWA-MS When Hero Met Punk as CM Punk
- 2003 · ROH: Revenge On The Prophecy as CM Punk
- 2002 · ROH: Final Battle 2002 as CM Punk
- 2002 · ROH: Night of The Butcher as CM Punk
- 2002 · ROH: All Star Extravaganza as CM Punk
- 2002 · Chikara: The Renaissance Dawns as CM Punk
- 2002 · IWA-MS House of Hardcore 2nd Anniversary as CM Punk
- 1960 · The Flintstones as CM Punkrock (voice)
- Future · Straight Shootin' Series with Samoa Joe & CM Punk as CM Punk