Former WWE star CM Punk signs with UFC

[Dale]

Former WWE champion CM Punk, aka Phillip Brooks, has inked a deal to fight in the UFC. Brooks announced the news Saturday night on UFC 181's pay-per-view.

Brooks, a student of Rener Gracie, has been flirting with mixed martial arts since departing the WWE in 2013. The 6-foot-2 wrestler is currently undecided which weight class he'll shoot for, but said on the broadcast that he'll likely target middleweight, although welterweight could be an option as well.

"This is my new career, 100-percent," said Brooks. "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."

Well fuck, good luck to the guy because he's most certainly going to need it.

 

[Deezy]

Seriously the funniest shit I have ever read.

Didn't he say his body was beat up? Yeah MMA is the next logical step. Only training he said he could do was jogging and he is going into the octagon?

Will quit as soon as training camp starts.

 

[PHX]

Punk you're my dude and all but the fuck are you thinking? He'll certainly be far away the most entertaining guy in UFC when it comes to press conferences but that is about it I can't see this ending well for him. I would love if he could totally exceed my expectations but if you stopped wrestling because your body was fucked up this isn't exactly the best idea even if he should be in much better shape by now since he's had like damn near a year of rest.

 

[Deezy]

He doesn't even have a fight camp. Good luck throwing punches with that arm he supposedly couldn't extend. An interview position I would understand, a fight tho? Hahahahahahahah a scrub who is BJJ hobbyist is going to fight in UFC? Fuck sakes Phil Baroni could beat the shit out of him.

Atleast Batista had a black or brown belt from Cesar Gracie and trains with the Diaz brothers. Phil has nothing. Hahahahahahaha I will enjoy watching him get KO'd in seconds by some journeymen they try feed him.

 

[Aniking]

Something tells me he wouldn't be signing a contract with the UFC if a) his body was still banged up, and b) he didn't know what he was doing. But of course, we know Punk better than he does and we make the right decisions for his life without even living it.

 

[punk13]

Rousey by Armbar in 20 seconds Ha!

 

[Crippler]

DEAD.

 

[MaNonTheMoon]

....Shit, that's one way to twist the knife in Vin-Man's back. Good on Dana for getting Punk and good luck to Punk, he just better hope they don't toss him in there with a top tier middleweight.

 

[Deezy]

Vince is a terrible boss? Yep and Dana White is better

He'd have to fight someone of value, because giving him some unranked nobody just makes the UFC look bad.

 

[SAIYANS]

I will lmao if the guy who complained Ryback was rough and could barely throw a kick as hard as rey or Van Dam ever steps into an octagon. He go be the anti Mayweather, all mouth but no wins

 

[Embrace Thou Maryse]

Punk vs. Belfort please.

Hows the guy going to cope though when someone who has trained to throw a kick hits him the stomach with the intent to hurt him though? Guy complained about taking stiff shots in wrasslin. Looks bad on the UFC though that they sign a guy with zero fights and who only does BJJ as a hobby, best fighters in the world my ass.

 

[Deezy]

Want to see him get destroyed, but I really want to see him do well so the MMA neckbeards get super rustled over it.....they are actually worse than IWC neckbeards.......not by much tho

 

[SAIYANS]

And somewhere Kurt Angle is telling himself I still got a chance

 

[Deezy]

Forget Angle an actual fighter and one ofthe best named Ben Askren still not signed.

Also hey, Robbie Lawler won a title and killed then old tale of "wasted potential" and wrote a damn fine redemption story.....but nobody remembers that.

Punk being some part timer, coming in to play in the sandbox and leave

 

[Embrace Thou Maryse]

Such a hypocrite though bitches about part timers in the WWE then gets signed to the UFC solely because of potential drawing power while real fighters bust their ass to get signed. Punks not the hero his cult wish he was.