CM Punk signs multi-fight deal with UFC

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CM Punk signs multi-fight deal with UFC
By Marcus Vanderberg
3 hours ago
Cagewriter

Phil “CM Punk” Brooks has signed a multi-fight deal with Ultimate Fighting Championship and will make his Octagon debut in 2015, the promotion announced Saturday night.

The UFC teased a big announcement following the first match of the UFC 181 pay-per-view portion and delivered. Joe Rogan interviewed Brooks cageside at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Brooks, 36, wasn’t sure of a weight class yet, but said both middleweight and welterweight were options.

“I have a background in kempo and I’ve been doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu for a long time," Brooks told Rogan. "This is my new career, 100-percent. I'm going to go full steam ahead, all systems go after today, and it's going to be fun. I have nothing but respect for everybody here at the UFC, everybody who steps in the Octagon to fight. And when it's all said and done, when I'm finished, everybody's going to have to respect me because I have come here to fight."

Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/cm-punk-signs-multi-fight-deal-with-ufc-035256156.html


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Phil CM Punk Brooks will fight
in the UFC in 2015. (Photo by
Duane Prokop/Getty Images

 

[zrinkill]

Dumbest thing I have ever heard,

 

[Ren]

Doubt he lasts long

 

[BAZ]

37 when he first steps into a ring? Unless he is get lobbed a softball this will end badly.

Now if he was fighting Joe Rogan, shut up and take my money.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I was hoping to see him on RAW since I've heard how good he was.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Can't blame a guy for living out a dream. I think even he knows that this is a pretty limited thing as far as what it can do and it's more about officially getting in the ring. Perhaps that will allow him to work for the company in a different capacity in the future (i.e. commentator, TV host, etc). The pro wrestling stigma is a hard one to separate yourself from, so he has to get actual MMA experience if he is going to bring himself credibility in the world of MMA.

The only that gets me is that as bad as Vince McMahon can be at paying his workers, supposedly Dana White is just as bad.




YR

 

[Risen Star]

I think it's a joke to let a guy with no prior athletic background jump right into the UFC. Lesnar was an all world wrestler (the real kind).

I realize he's 36 and time is not on his side but he should have to prove he's capable before getting a shot at the highest level.

 

[Ren]

He's a black belt in bjj which puts him at a higher level the a lot of people already competing but that in no way should be enough for a ufc shot, if he wasn't CM Punk he would never get this shot based purely on his martial arts credentials

 

[BAZ]

He's a black belt in bjj which puts him at a higher level the a lot of people already competing but that in no way should be enough for a ufc shot, if he wasn't CM Punk he would never get this shot based purely on his martial arts credentials

Everything tells me he's a white belt, where did you read he is a black?

 

[Ren]

In one of the articles about his signing but you're right after looking it up he's never applied for a belt promotion which makes this even more bizzare

 

[jrumann59]

Wait he was tired of all the abuse his body took wrestling, and some behind the scenes drama. So he is going to go from wrestling, to real fighting. Good Luck with that CM Punk, against "Power Ranger" no less

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Wait he was tired of all the abuse his body took wrestling, and some behind the scenes drama. So he is going to go from wrestling, to real fighting. Good Luck with that CM Punk, against "Power Ranger" no less

I imagine he figures he trains most of the year for one or two fights and limited road time vs being on the road the majority of the year while having fights multiple times a week in the ring or at least once a week.

With that said...I think it is a waste of time because of his age and getting into it so late into it.

 

[jrumann59]

I imagine he figures he trains most of the year for one or two fights and limited road time vs being on the road the majority of the year while having fights multiple times a week in the ring or at least once a week.

With that said...I think it is a waste of time because of his age and getting into it so late into it.

I mean he can grapple but "Power Ranger" does have a high degree in a martial art.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Good luck to him but let's call this what it is.

He's setting up his WWE return in a year or two with a contract similar to what Lesnar gets to do. That's all this is.

They're going to bring him in and let him fight some other older, not super skilled people, and his plan, and hope, will be that he wins a couple of fights on the 'big stage' of MMA.

When that happens he'll be able to walk right back into the WWE and do things basically the way Lesnar does and the WWE will pay him to do so and give him the wins he was looking for and the main events he was looking for to begin with.

If anyone listened to his podcast with Colt Cabana you saw this coming a mile away. He dropped so many hints about this type of stuff it's comical. This isn't a serious attempt to be a long term, big time, big name MMA fighter.

It's using his popularity to get a couple of fights against people equally inexperienced in the sport to try and get a couple of wins in real fights so that the WWE has to book him as a legit tough guy and let him do basically what he wants.

Just like Lesnar.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Wait he was tired of all the abuse his body took wrestling, and some behind the scenes drama. So he is going to go from wrestling, to real fighting. Good Luck with that CM Punk, against "Power Ranger" no less

Completely different grind on the body.

WWE is on the road, beating up their bodies, 300+ days a year. He's not going to be doing that same thing in UFC.

He's going to train and he'll have the wear and tear of training of course but he's going to have actually 2 fights at the most in a years time. It's not going to be the same wear and tear on the body.

But none of that really matters because as I stated above this is clearly nothing more than a way to get exactly the type of deal Lesnar has in the WWE so that he can come in, occasionally, be given big wins, and then be allowed to sit at home and do nothing afterwards.

 

[jrumann59]

Completely different grind on the body.

WWE is on the road, beating up their bodies, 300+ days a year. He's not going to be doing that same thing in UFC.

He's going to train and he'll have the wear and tear of training of course but he's going to have actually 2 fights at the most in a years time. It's not going to be the same wear and tear on the body.

But none of that really matters because as I stated above this is clearly nothing more than a way to get exactly the type of deal Lesnar has in the WWE so that he can come in, occasionally, be given big wins, and then be allowed to sit at home and do nothing afterwards.

So he is looking for things that he was so against and criticized organizations for when he was Champ.

 

[maxdallasfan]

You can be a black belt in all you want.

You can be the best boxer that man can make.

If you can't wrestle, and I mean real wrestle, then you are subject to long episodes of ground n pound.

He'll get some pure stand up guys for his first few fights.

Dana would sell his soul for good PPV numbers.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

So he is looking for things that he was so against and criticized organizations for when he was Champ.

Yep.

He's learned how to play the WWE game.

He knows that he's not going to get what he was desiring there by being the hard worker and doing everything right like he was supposed to.

He's realized that they were never going to make him the #1 guy there as things were. He's watched guys like Brock, Rock, Batista all leave and go have different levels of success in other fields and come back and be handed things they hadn't earned in the WWE simply for the name value they brought back.

Punk is going to do the same thing. He all but came right out and gave people his plan on that podcast. It was right there for anyone who was listening.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

You can be a black belt in all you want.

You can be the best boxer that man can make.

If you can't wrestle, and I mean real wrestle, then you are subject to long episodes of ground n pound.

He'll get some pure stand up guys for his first few fights.

Dana would sell his soul for good PPV numbers.

And this is money for Dana either way.

You're going to have people buying the PPV's because they're Punk fans and they want to see him do well and you're going to have loads of people buying the PPVs simply because they want to watch this guy get his *** kicked. Either for leaving the WWE or simply because he was in the WWE.

That's going to make Dana money either way.

 

[maxdallasfan]

And this is money for Dana either way.

You're going to have people buying the PPV's because they're Punk fans and they want to see him do well and you're going to have loads of people buying the PPVs simply because they want to watch this guy get his *** kicked. Either for leaving the WWE or simply because he was in the WWE.

That's going to make Dana money either way.

True. But in reality, MMA is so watered down now that the UFC will do anything to get the edge back.