Phil Brooks
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1978-10-26 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Phil Brooks
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2
as CM Punk
WWE WrestleMania 41: Saturday
as CM Punk
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
as CM Punk
Bloodstained Honor
as CM Punk
Alex Shelley: Made in Detroit
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE WrestleMania 41: Saturday
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE Elimination Chamber: Toronto
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE Royal Rumble 2025
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE Hall of Fame 2025
as C M Punk
(2025)
The 2025 Slammys
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE Best of Raw 2024 Special
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE Countdown to Royal Rumble 2025
as CM Punk
(2025)
(2025)
WWE Royal Rumble 2025 Kickoff
as CM Punk
(2025)
WWE Raw on Netflix Premier Post-Show
as CM Punk
(2025)
(2025)
WrestleMania 41 Saturday Post-Show
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE Bad Blood
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE WrestleMania XL Saturday
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE Money in the Bank
as CM Punk (Appearance)
(2024)
WWE WrestleMania XL Sunday
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE Royal Rumble 2024
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff Press Event
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE SummerSlam 2024
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2024
as CM Punk
(2024)
Let's Start a Cult
as Robbie
(2024)
WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain
as CM Punk (archive footage)
(2024)
WWE Clash at the Castle: Scotland
as CM Punk
(2024)
Bash in Berlin Kickoff 2024
as CM Punk
(2024)
Raw on Netflix Kickoff
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff
as CM Punk
(2024)
WWE Bash in Berlin
as CM Punk
(2024)
(2024)
WWE SummerSlam: Cleveland Kickoff
as CM Punk
(2024)
(2024)
Countdown to WWE Bash in Berlin
as CM Punk
(2024)
Countdown to WWE Backlash France 2024
as CM Punk
(2024)
(2024)
Cm punk AEW story
as self
(2023)
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2023
as CM Punk (Appearance)
(2023)
AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door
as CM Punk
(2023)
AEW All In: London
as CM Punk
(2023)
NXT Deadline 2023
as CM Punk
(2023)
(2022)
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as CM Punk
(2022)
AEW All Out
as CM Punk
(2022)
AEW Beach Break 2022
as CM Punk
(2022)
AEW Revolution
as CM Punk
(2022)
AEW Double or Nothing
as CM Punk
(2022)
AEW Awards
as CM Punk
(2022)
GCW The Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame
as CM Punk
(2021)
Jakob's Wife
as Deputy Colton
(2021)
AEW All Out
as CM Punk
(2021)
AEW Full Gear
as CM Punk
(2021)
AEW Grand Slam
as CM Punk
(2021)
ROH: Final Battle 2021
as CM Punk
(2020)
The Firefly Funhouse Match
as CM Punk (archive footage)
(2019)
Rabid
as Billy (as C.M. Punk)
(2019)
Girl on the Third Floor
as Don Koch
(2019)
(2018)
(2017)
(2016)
Randy Orton: RKO Outta Nowhere
as CM Punk
(2016)
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 2
as CM Punk
(2016)
NXT's Greatest Matches Vol. 1
as CM Punk
(2016)
The Essential AJ Styles Collection
as CM Punk
(2016)
CM Punk: Icon
as CM Punk
(2016)
UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
as Self
(2016)
WWE: The True Story of The Royal Rumble
as CM Punk
(2016)
(2015)
The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!
as CM Punkrock (voice)
(2015)
(2015)
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes!
as CM Punk
(2015)
ROH: Year 5
as CM Punk
(2014)
WWE Royal Rumble 2014
as CM Punk
(2014)
Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30
as CM Punk
(2014)
(2014)
(2014)
Undertaker: The Streak 21-1
as CM Punk
(2014)
ROH: Creating Excellence
as CM Punk
(2014)
ROH: Year Four
as CM Punk
(2013)
(2013)
WWE WrestleMania 29
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Elimination Chamber 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Royal Rumble 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
(2013)
WWE Battleground 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Night of Champions 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE SummerSlam 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
(2013)
WWE Hell in a Cell 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Payback 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 1
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Money in the Bank 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
(2013)
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Survivor Series 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
AJ Styles: Styles Clash
as CM Punk
(2013)
(2013)
ROH: Year Three
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2013
as Cm Punk
(2013)
Colt Cabana: Chicago's Favorite Son
as CM Punk
(2013)
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2013
as CM Punk
(2013)
Samoa Joe: A Championship Legacy
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE WrestleMania XXVIII
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE Royal Rumble 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE Extreme Rules 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE Over The Limit 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE Elimination Chamber 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE Survivor Series 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
CM Punk: Best in the World
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE No Way Out 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
(2012)
WWE Money In The Bank 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
(2012)
WWE SummerSlam 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
(2012)
WWE Night of Champions 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE Hell In A Cell 2012
as CM Punk
(2012)
WWE: The Best of Raw & Smackdown 2011
as CM Punk
(2012)
(2012)
ROH: The Summer of Punk
as CM Punk
(2012)
(2012)
ROH: Year Two
as CM Punk
(2012)
CM Punk: The Second City Saint
as CM Punk
(2012)
ROH: The Rise of Generation Next
as CM Punk
(2012)
Samoa Joe: Total Domination
as CM Punk
(2012)
ROH: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE WrestleMania XXVII
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Survivor Series 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time
as CM Punk (archive footage)
(2011)
WWE Royal Rumble 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
The True Story of WrestleMania
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Elimination Chamber 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Vengeance 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Night of Champions 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World
as CM Punk
(2011)
The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE SummerSlam 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
The John Cena Experience
as C.M. Punk (archive footage)
(2011)
WWE Extreme Rules 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
WWE Over The Limit 2011
as CM Punk
(2011)
(2010)
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE SummerSlam 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE Night of Champions 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE Elimination Chamber 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
WWE Bragging Rights 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
(2010)
WWE Over the Limit 2010
as CM Punk
(2010)
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 1
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE WrestleMania XXV
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Royal Rumble 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Survivor Series 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Hell in a Cell 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Extreme Rules 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Judgment Day 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Backlash 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE The Bash 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Breaking Point 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009
as CM Punk (Preshow)
(2009)
PWG Sells Out: Volume 2
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE SummerSlam 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2009
as CM Punk
(2009)
WWE Night of Champions 2009
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE WrestleMania XXIV
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE Armageddon 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE No Way Out 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE Royal Rumble 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE One Night Stand 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE SummerSlam 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE Survivor Series 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE Unforgiven 2008
as CM Punk (Appearance)
(2008)
WWE Judgment Day 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE The Great American Bash 2008
as CM Punk
(2008)
ROH: Greatest Rivalries
as CM Punk
(2008)
ROH: Stars of Honor
as CM Punk
(2008)
ROH: Best In The World
as CM Punk
(2008)
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE WrestleMania 23
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Survivor Series 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE SummerSlam 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Judgment Day 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE The Great American Bash 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Unforgiven 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE One Night Stand 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Armageddon 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE No Mercy 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE Cyber Sunday 2007
as CM Punk
(2007)
PWG Sells Out: Volume 1
as CM Punk
(2007)
WWE: The New & Improved DX
as CM Punk
(2006)
WWE WrestleMania 22
as Cena Gangster
(2006)
WWE Survivor Series 2006
as CM Punk
(2006)
ECW December to Dismember
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 2
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP With Malice
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: Escape From New York
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: Fate of An Angel
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: The Homecoming
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: Death Before Dishonor III
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Dangerous Intentions
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP New Year's Classic 2005
as CM punk
(2005)
ROH: Manhattan Mayhem
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP New Dawn Rising
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: Sign of Dishonor
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: Punk - The Final Chapter
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP In Full Force
as CM Punk
(2005)
UXW Chris Candido Memorial Show
as CM Punk
(2005)
ROH: The Final Showdown
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 1
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Unstoppable
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Bring the Pain
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP The Usual Suspects
as CM Punk
(2005)
(2005)
ROH: Redemption
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Violence is the Answer
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Sold Out
as CM Punk
(2005)
FIP Payback
as CM Punk
(2004)
(2004)
ROH: Final Battle 2004
as CM Punk
(2004)
(2004)
ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 2
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 1
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Joe vs Punk II
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: All Star Extravaganza 2
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Testing The Limit
as CM Punk
(2004)
(2004)
PWG: Rocktoberfest
as CM Punk
(2004)
(2004)
FIP Fallout Night 1 2004
as CM Punk
(2004)
PWG: The Reason For The Season
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: The Last Stand
as CM Punk
(2004)
FIP Florida Rumble
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: World Title Classic
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Collision Course
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Reborn - Stage One
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: 2nd Anniversary
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Round Robin Challenge III
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Generation Next
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: The Battle Lines Are Drawn
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Reborn - Stage Two
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Survival of The Fittest
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Scramble Cage Melee
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Reborn - Completion
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Midnight Express Reunion
as CM Punk
(2004)
FIP Emergence - Tag 1
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: At Our Best
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Gold
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Glory By Honor III
as CM Punk
(2004)
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two
as CM Punk
(2004)
PWG: The Secret of The Ooze
as CM Punk
(2004)
FIP Emergence - Tag 2
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: The Conclusion
as CM Punk
(2003)
MLW Hybrid Hell
as CM Punk
(2003)
MLW War Games
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Revenge on the Prophecy
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Tradition Continues
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Do or Die
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Night of Champions
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: One Year Anniversary Show
as CM Punk
(2003)
PWG: An Inch Longer Than Average
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Night of The Grudges
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Empire State Showdown
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Glory By Honor II
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: The Epic Encounter
as CM Punk
(2003)
PWG: Pimpin' In High Places
as CM Punk
(2003)
MLW Revolutions
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Final Battle 2003
as CM Punk
(2003)
MLW Rise of The Renegades
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Main Event Spectacles
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: WrestleRave '03
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Expect The Unexpected
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Beating The Odds
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: War of The Wire
as CM Punk
(2003)
ROH: Death Before Dishonor
as CM Punk
(2003)
IWA-MS When Hero Met Punk
as CM Punk
(2003)
(2002)
ROH: All Star Extravaganza
as CM Punk
(2002)
ROH: Final Battle 2002
as CM Punk
(2002)
ROH: Night of The Butcher
as CM Punk
(2002)
Chikara: The Renaissance Dawns
as CM Punk
(2002)
IWA-MS House of Hardcore 2nd Anniversary
as CM Punk