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.”
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