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 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) 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.
Let's Start a Cult
Robbie
2024
WWE Bash in Berlin
CM Punk
2024
Countdown to WWE Bash in Berlin
CM Punk
2024
Bash in Berlin Kickoff 2024
CM Punk
2024
WWE SummerSlam 2024
CM Punk
2024
WWE SummerSlam: Cleveland Kickoff
CM Punk
2024
WWE Money in the Bank 2024
CM Punk (Appearance)
2024
WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain
CM Punk (archive footage)
2024
WWE Clash at the Castle: Scotland Post Show
CM Punk
2024
Countdown to WWE Backlash France 2024
CM Punk
2024
WrestleMania XL Sunday
CM Punk
2024
WrestleMania XL Saturday
CM Punk
2024
WWE Countdown to WrestleMania XL Saturday
CM Punk
2024
WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff
CM Punk
2024
WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff Press Event
CM Punk
2024
WWE Royal Rumble 2024
CM Punk
2024
NXT Deadline 2023
CM Punk
2023
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2023
CM Punk (Appearance)
2023
CM Punk in AEW: The End
2023
AEW All In: London
CM Punk
2023
AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door
CM Punk
2023
AEW All Out
CM Punk
2022
AEW Double or Nothing
CM Punk
2022
AEW Awards
CM Punk
2022
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
CM Punk
2022
AEW Revolution
CM Punk
2022
AEW Beach Break 2022
CM Punk
2022
GCW The Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame
CM Punk
2022
ROH: Final Battle 2021
CM Punk
2021
AEW Full Gear
CM Punk
2021
AEW Grand Slam
CM Punk
2021
The Firefly Funhouse Match
CM Punk (archive footage)
2020
Rabid
Billy (as C.M. Punk)
2019
Girl on the Third Floor
Don Koch
2019
STARRCAST III: Best In The World - CM Punk
CM Punk
2019
UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
Self
2018
WWE: 30 Years of Survivor Series
2017
WWE: The True Story of The Royal Rumble
CM Punk
2016
Randy Orton: RKO Outta Nowhere
CM Punk
2016
Brock Lesnar: Eat, Sleep. Conquer. Repeat
CM Punk
2016
UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
Self
2016
CM Punk: Icon
CM Punk
2016
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes!
CM Punk
2015
The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!
CM Punkrock (voice)
2015
The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J
CM Punk
2015
ROH: Year 5
CM Punk
2015
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3
CM Punk
2014
Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name Is Paul Heyman
Himself
2014
Undertaker: The Streak 21-1
CM Punk
2014
Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30
CM Punk
2014
ROH: Year Four
CM Punk
2014
ROH: Creating Excellence
CM Punk
2014
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2013
Cm Punk
2013
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE Survivor Series 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE Hell in a Cell 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE Battleground 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE Night of Champions 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE Money in the Bank 2013
CM Punk
2013
Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson
CM Punk
2013
WWE Payback 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE WrestleMania 29
CM Punk
2013
WWE Elimination Chamber 2013
CM Punk
2013
WWE: The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2012, Volume 1
CM Punk
2013
WWE Royal Rumble 2013
CM Punk
2013
ROH: Year Three
CM Punk
2013
AJ Styles: Styles Clash
CM Punk
2013
Colt Cabana: Chicago's Favorite Son
CM Punk
2013
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2012
CM Punk
2012
CM Punk: The Second City Saint
CM Punk
2012
WWE Survivor Series 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE Hell In A Cell 2012
CM Punk
2012
ROH: The Rise of Generation Next
CM Punk
2012
ROH: Year Two
CM Punk
2012
CM Punk: Best in the World
CM Punk
2012
WWE Night of Champions 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE SummerSlam 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE RAW 1000
2012
WWE Money In The Bank 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE No Way Out 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE Over The Limit 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE Extreme Rules 2012
CM Punk
2012
ROH: Bryan Danielson - The American Dragon
CM Punk
2012
WWE: The Best of Raw & Smackdown 2011
CM Punk
2012
WWE WrestleMania XXVIII
CM Punk
2012
WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man
CM Punk
2012
ROH: The Summer of Punk
CM Punk
2012
WWE Elimination Chamber 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE Royal Rumble 2012
CM Punk
2012
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2011
2011
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Survivor Series 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Vengeance 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World
CM Punk
2011
WWE SummerSlam 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Over The Limit 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Extreme Rules 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE WrestleMania XXVII
CM Punk
2011
WWE Elimination Chamber 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Royal Rumble 2011
CM Punk
2011
WWE Bragging Rights 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE Night of Champions 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE SummerSlam 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber
CM Punk
2010
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE Over the Limit 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
CM Punk
2010
WWE Elimination Chamber 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
CM Punk
2010
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009
CM Punk (Preshow)
2009
Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules
CM Punk
2009
WWE Survivor Series 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Hell in a Cell 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Breaking Point 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE SummerSlam 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Night of Champions 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE The Bash 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Extreme Rules 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Judgment Day 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Backlash 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE WrestleMania XXV
CM Punk
2009
WWE Royal Rumble 2009
CM Punk
2009
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE Armageddon 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE Survivor Series 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE Unforgiven 2008
CM Punk (Appearance)
2008
WWE SummerSlam 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE The Great American Bash 2008
CM Punk
2008
ROH: Best In The World
CM Punk
2008
WWE One Night Stand 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE Judgment Day 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE WrestleMania XXIV
CM Punk
2008
WWE No Way Out 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE Royal Rumble 2008
CM Punk
2008
WWE Armageddon 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE Survivor Series 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE Cyber Sunday 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE No Mercy 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE Unforgiven 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE SummerSlam 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE The Great American Bash 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE One Night Stand 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE Judgment Day 2007
CM Punk
2007
WWE WrestleMania 23
CM Punk
2007
WWE: The New & Improved DX
CM Punk
2007
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
CM Punk
2007
ECW December to Dismember
CM Punk
2006
WWE Survivor Series 2006
CM Punk
2006
WWE WrestleMania 22
Cena Gangster
2006
ROH: Punk - The Final Chapter
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Redemption
CM Punk
2005
FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 1
CM Punk
2005
ROH: The Homecoming
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Fate of An Angel
CM Punk
2005
PWG: 2nd Annual Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza - Night Two
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Escape From New York
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Sign of Dishonor
CM Punk
2005
FIP Payback
CM Punk
2005
FIP Sold Out
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Death Before Dishonor III
CM Punk
2005
FIP Unstoppable
CM Punk
2005
FIP In Full Force
CM Punk
2005
UXW Chris Candido Memorial Show
CM Punk
2005
ROH: The Final Showdown
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Manhattan Mayhem
CM Punk
2005
FIP Violence is the Answer
CM Punk
2005
FIP The Usual Suspects
CM Punk
2005
FIP Bring the Pain
CM Punk
2005
FIP With Malice
CM Punk
2005
FIP Dangerous Intentions
CM Punk
2005
FIP New Dawn Rising
CM Punk
2005
FIP New Year's Classic 2005
CM punk
2005
FIP Florida Rumble
CM Punk
2004
ROH: All Star Extravaganza 2
CM Punk
2004
FIP Fallout Night 1 2004
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Joe vs Punk II
CM Punk
2004
FIP Emergence - Tag 2
CM Punk
2004
FIP Emergence - Tag 1
CM Punk
2004
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 2
CM Punk
2004
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 1
CM Punk
2004
PWG: The Secret of The Ooze
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Reborn - Completion
CM Punk
2004
PWG: The Reason For The Season
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Survival of The Fittest
CM Punk
2004
PWG: Rocktoberfest
CM Punk
2004
ROH: World Title Classic
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Generation Next
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Round Robin Challenge III
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Reborn - Stage Two
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Reborn - Stage One
CM Punk
2004
ROH: The Last Stand
CM Punk
2004
PWG: Tango & Cash Invitational - Night Two
CM Punk
2004
PWG: Tango & Cash Invitational - Night One
CM Punk
2004
ROH: The Battle Lines Are Drawn
CM Punk
2004
PWG: Pimpin' In High Places
CM Punk
2003
PWG: An Inch Longer Than Average
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Empire State Showdown
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Death Before Dishonor
CM Punk
2003
ROH: WrestleRave '03
CM Punk
2003
IWA-MS When Hero Met Punk
CM Punk
2003
IWA-MS House of Hardcore 2nd Anniversary
CM Punk
2002
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
CM Punk
Interviews with a Hero: The Chris Hero Story
CM Punk
Alex Shelley: Made in Detroit
CM Punk
Bloodstained Honor
CM Punk
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 2
CM Punk
2016
NXT's Greatest Matches Vol. 1
CM Punk
2016
The Essential AJ Styles Collection
CM Punk
2016
The History of WWE: 50 Years of Sports Entertainment
CM Punk
2013
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology
CM Punk
2013
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
CM Punk
2013
Samoa Joe: A Championship Legacy
CM Punk
2013
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 1
CM Punk
2013
WWE The Great American Bash 2012: Super Smackdown Live!
CM Punk
2012
ROH: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk
CM Punk
2012
Samoa Joe: Total Domination
CM Punk
2012
Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time
CM Punk (archive footage)
2011
The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn
CM Punk
2011
WWE Night of Champions 2011
CM Punk
2011
The True Story of WrestleMania
CM Punk
2011
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 1
CM Punk
2010
PWG Sells Out: Volume 2
CM Punk
2009
ROH: Greatest Rivalries
CM Punk
2008
ROH: Stars of Honor
CM Punk
2008
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2
CM Punk
PWG Sells Out: Volume 1
CM Punk
2007
Straight Shootin' Series with Samoa Joe & CM Punk
CM Punk
The 2025 Slammys
CM Punk
2025
WrestleMania 41: Saturday
CM Punk
2025
WWE Hall of Fame 2025
C M Punk
2025
WWE Countdown to Elimination Chamber 2025
CM Punk
2025
WWE Royal Rumble 2025
CM Punk
2025
WWE Countdown to Royal Rumble 2025
CM Punk
2025
WWE Raw on Netflix Premier Post-Show
CM Punk
2025
WWE Best of Raw 2024 Special
CM Punk
2025
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2024
CM Punk
2024
Cm punk AEW story
self
2024
WWE Bad Blood
CM Punk
2024
Jakob's Wife
Deputy Colton
2021
WWE Royal Rumble 2014
CM Punk
2014
WWE SummerSlam 2013
CM Punk
2013
ROH: Final Battle 2004
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 2
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Gold
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Testing The Limit
CM Punk
2004
ROH: At Our Best
CM Punk
2004
ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 1 - Better Than You
CM Punk
ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 2 - Straight Edge
CM Punk
ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 3 - The Legacy Continues
CM Punk
WrestleMania 41 Saturday Post-Show
CM Punk
2025
WWE Elimination Chamber: Toronto
CM Punk
2025
WWE Elimination Chamber: Toronto - Kickoff
CM Punk
2025
WWE Royal Rumble 2025 Kickoff
CM Punk
2025
Raw on Netflix Kickoff
CM Punk
2024
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2024 Post-Show
CM Punk
2024
WWE Clash at the Castle: Scotland
CM Punk
2024
AEW All Out
CM Punk
2021
The John Cena Experience
C.M. Punk (archive footage)
2011
FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 2
CM Punk
2005
ROH: Glory By Honor III
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One
CM Punk
2004
ROH: 2nd Anniversary
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Collision Course
CM Punk
2004
ROH: War of The Wire
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Tradition Continues
CM Punk
2003
MLW Hybrid Hell
CM Punk
2003
ROH: All Star Extravaganza
CM Punk
2002
Chikara: The Renaissance Dawns
CM Punk
2002
Night Patrol
WWE WrestleMania 41: Saturday
CM Punk
WWE Night of Champions 2025
CM Punk
2025
WWE Night of Champions 2025 Kickoff
CM Punk
2025
Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX
CM Punk
2025
Stephanie's Places
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2025
WWE LFG
CM Punk · (2 episodes)
2025
WWE's Greatest Moments
Cm Punk · (1 episode)
2025
WWE's Greatest Moments
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2025
WWE Raw Classics
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2025
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
CM Punk · (8 episodes)
2023
WWE Rivals
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2022
All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2022
Heels
Ricky Rabies · (1 episode)
2021
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
CM Punk · (11 episodes)
2021
AEW Unrestricted
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2020
WWE Backstage
CM Punk · (38 episodes)
2019
AEW Dark
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2019
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
CM Punk · (41 episodes)
2019
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
Cm Punk · (1 episode)
2019
Dark Side of the Ring
(1 episode)
2019
Mayans M.C.
Paul · (4 episodes)
2018
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self · (1 episode)
2017
The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros
(6 episodes)
2017
The Evolution of Punk
Phil "CM Punk" Brooks · (4 episodes)
2016
The Rock vs. John Cena: Once In A Lifetime
CM Punk
2012
WWE Main Event
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2012
Talking Dead
Self · (1 episode)
2011
WWE NXT
(4 episodes)
2010
WWE NXT
Cm Punk · (2 episodes)
2010
Inside MMA
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2007
WWE ECW
CM Punk · (26 episodes)
2006
ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 1
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Midnight Express Reunion
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Scramble Cage Melee
CM Punk
2004
ROH: Final Battle 2003
CM Punk
2003
ROH: The Conclusion
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Main Event Spectacles
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Glory By Honor II
CM Punk
2003
MLW War Games
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Beating The Odds
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies
CM Punk
2003
MLW Rise of The Renegades
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Night of The Grudges
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Do or Die
CM Punk
2003
MLW Revolutions
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Retribution - Round Robin Challenge II
CM Punk
2003
ROH: The Epic Encounter
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Night of Champions
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Expect The Unexpected
CM Punk
2003
ROH: One Year Anniversary Show
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Revenge on the Prophecy
CM Punk
2003
ROH: Final Battle 2002
CM Punk
2002
ROH: Night of The Butcher
CM Punk
2002
TNA Xplosion
CM Punk · (1 episode)
2002
WWE SmackDown
CM Punk · (76 episodes)
1999
WWE SmackDown
(10 episodes)
1999
Raw
CM Punk · (51 episodes)
1993
Raw
(35 episodes)
1993
Saturday Night's Main Event
CM Punk · (2 episodes)
1985
Saturday Night's Main Event
(1 episode)
1985
Saturday Night's Main Event
C M Punk · (1 episode)
1985