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