CM Punk is a retired American professional wrestler and two-time WWE Champion
CM Punk
@Professional Wrestler, Career and Childhood
Oct 26, 1978
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: October 26, 1978
- Nationality: American
- Famous: Professional Wrestler, Sportspersons, Wrestlers
- City/State: Illinois
- Spouses: AJ Lee
- Siblings: Mike Brooks
- Known as: Phil Brooks, Phillip Jack Brooks
CM Punk born at
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Birth Place
Punk married April Mendez aka AJ Lee on June 13, 2014.
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Personal Life
Punk is an atheist. He is an avid reader as well. He is also a dedicated fan of Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Cubs.
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Personal Life
CM Punk was born was Philip Jack Brooks on October 26, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois to an engineer father and a homemaker mother. He was one of the five children of the couple. Brooks was raised near Lockport in Illinois. Academically, Brooks attended Lockport Township High School.
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Childhood & Early Life
Interestingly, Brooks venture into wrestling came in almost unexpected fashion. Along with his friends and brother Mike Brooks, he made his stint in backyard wrestling federation called Lunatic Wrestling Federation in mid 1990s. While his friends thought of it as a fun activity, Brooks seriously thought of it as a career option.
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Childhood & Early Life
Brooks first used the ring name, CM Punk, when he was put into a tag team named The Chick Magnets, with CM Venom , after another performer skipped out on the card. The name stayed with him for the rest of his life and gave him an individuality of his own.
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Career
CM Punk left the federation soon after and instead enrolled as a student at the ‘Steel Dominion’ wrestling school in Chicago. He trained to become a professional wrestler. There, he befriended Scott Colton aka Colt Cabana. Punk spent much of his early life fighting both as opponents and tag team partners with Colt Cabana.
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Career
Early in his career, Punk fought from the Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA Mid-South). Slowly, he rose at the top of the roster winning the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship title twice and the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship five times, non-consecutively.
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He joined the Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2002. His days in ROH were mostly popular for his feud with Raven that gained utmost limelight. The rivalry between the two heightened so much so that it became one of the top feuds of the year.
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Simultaneously with ROH, Punk joined the wrestling promotion NWA: Total Nonstop Action (TNA). During this time, he won the ROH Tag Team Championship together with Cabana. He performed for ROH and TNA until 2005 after which he signed a deal with Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) developmental territory.
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