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CM Punk Clarifies Comments About Offers To Wrestle, Says He’s Done Wrestling, UFC Is His Headspace Now

CM Punk has been making media rounds in anticipation of this weekend’s fight against Mike Jackson at UFC 225.

A previous interview with Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com featured Punk saying nobody has actually made him an offer to return to wrestling, and Punk doubled down on this in a new interview with TSN. Punk told Aaron Bronsteter that he was in fact done with wrestling, and said he’s putting his sports entertainment career behind him:

CM Punk Comments On A Return To Wrestling & His Perceived Reputation In MMA (Video)

“[Wednesday], I said a bunch of stuff about wrestling, about how I’d never gotten a true offer [to return to wrestling]. This does not mean I want to wrestle. I’m done, I’m done, I’m done with professional wrestling. A lot of people like to be mad at me about that and make fun of me because I lost my first fight (to Mickey Gall at UFC 203 in September of 2016 via rear-naked choke at 2:14 of the first round) and that’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion, but you do not own me and I’m entitled to do what I want to do and that’s what I’m doing.”

“Wrestling is in the rear-view mirror. I’ve been trying for five years to put wrestling in the rear-view mirror and some people just won’t let it go. They – I don’t know – want to live my life for me and I kind of don’t understand that, but it doesn’t matter what I say. I’ve said, ‘No, no, no, no’ so many times that people always kind of be like, ‘Oh, so there’s a chance?’ I love Terry Funk and he retired for the first time when I was two years old. People always come and go and they leave and come back. [UFC] is where I live now. This is my headspace.”

https://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1004762588624891904

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