Portrait of Phil Brooks

Phil Brooks

Acting

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.

Born: October 26, 1978

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Filmography

2026
Night Patrol

as Deputy

2025
2025
WWE: Unreal

as CM Punk

2025
2025
2025
WWE LFG

as CM Punk

2025
2025
2024
2024
WWE Bad Blood

as CM Punk

2024
2024
2024
WWE Money in the Bank 2024

as CM Punk (Appearance)

2024
2023
2023
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2023

as CM Punk (Appearance)

2023
2022
AEW All Out

as CM Punk

2022
WWE Rivals

as CM Punk

2022
2022
AEW Awards

as CM Punk

2022
AEW Revolution

as CM Punk

2021
AEW Full Gear

as CM Punk

2021
AEW Grand Slam

as CM Punk

2021
AEW All Out

as CM Punk

2021
Heels

as Ricky Rabies

2021
Jakob's Wife

as Deputy Colton

2020
The Firefly Funhouse Match

as CM Punk (archive footage)

2020
2019
Rabid

as Billy (as C.M. Punk)

2019
WWE Backstage

as CM Punk

2019
AEW Dark

as CM Punk

2018
2016
The Evolution of Punk

as Phil "CM Punk" Brooks

2016
CM Punk: Icon

as CM Punk

2015
ROH: Year 5

as CM Punk

2014
2014
ROH: Year Four

as CM Punk

2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
ROH: Year Three

as CM Punk

2012
ROH: Year Two

as CM Punk

2012
WWE Main Event

as CM Punk

2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
The John Cena Experience

as C.M. Punk (archive footage)

2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
WWE NXT

as Cm Punk

2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
WWE Unforgiven 2008

as CM Punk (Appearance)

2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
WWE ECW

as CM Punk

2006
WWE WrestleMania 22

as Cena Gangster

2005
ROH: Redemption

as CM Punk

2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
ROH: Gold

as CM Punk

2004
2004
2004
2004
2004
2004
2003
2003
2003
MLW War Games

as CM Punk

2003
2003
2003
MLW Hybrid Hell

as CM Punk

2003
ROH: Do or Die

as CM Punk

2003
MLW Revolutions

as CM Punk

2002
TNA Xplosion

as CM Punk

1999
WWE SmackDown

as CM Punk

1993
Raw

as CM Punk

1993