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.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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WWE SmackDown
as CM Punk
Episodes: 76
First Aired: Apr 29, 1999
Raw
as CM Punk
Episodes: 51
First Aired: Jan 11, 1993
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
as CM Punk
Episodes: 41
First Aired: Oct 02, 2019
WWE Backstage
as CM Punk
Episodes: 38
First Aired: Nov 05, 2019
WWE ECW
as CM Punk
Episodes: 26
First Aired: Jun 13, 2006
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
as CM Punk
Episodes: 11
First Aired: Aug 13, 2021
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
as CM Punk
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Jun 17, 2023
The Evolution of Punk
as Phil "CM Punk" Brooks
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Aug 15, 2016
Mayans M.C.
as Paul
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 04, 2018
WWE NXT
as Cm Punk
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 23, 2010
Raw
as CM Punk (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 11, 1993
Heels
as Ricky Rabies
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 2021
AEW Unrestricted
as CM Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 20, 2020
WWE Main Event
as CM Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 2012
All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts
as CM Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 08, 2022
TNA Xplosion
as CM Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 2002
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
as Cm Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 2019
AEW Dark
as CM Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 08, 2019
The Flintstones
as CM Punkrock (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1960
WWE Raw Classics
as CM Punk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 2025
Raw
Episodes: 18
First Aired: Jan 11, 1993
The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros
Episodes: 6
First Aired: May 15, 2017
WWE NXT
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Feb 23, 2010
WWE SmackDown
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Apr 29, 1999
Dark Side of the Ring
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 10, 2019
Talking Dead
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 16, 2011
Inside MMA
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 14, 2007
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 08, 2017
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