Phil Brooks
Brooks began his professional wrestling career in 1999 on the independent circuit, most notably with Ring of Honor (ROH), where he won the ROH World Championship once. He signed with WWE in 2005 and went on to become a multi-time world champion, also holding the Intercontinental, ECW World Heavyweight, and World Tag Team Championships, becoming WWE’s 19th Triple Crown Champion and the fastest to achieve the distinction. He was the only back-to-back Money in the Bank winner, headlined multiple WWE pay-per-view events, won Superstar of the Year at the 2011 Slammy Awards, and was named Wrestler of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Disillusioned with WWE, he left the company acrimoniously and retired from professional wrestling in 2014.
After leaving WWE, Brooks pursued a career in mixed martial arts and signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Competing as a welterweight, he made his professional debut at UFC 203 in 2016, losing to Mickey Gall via submission, and later fought Mike Jackson at UFC 225 in 2018 in a bout that was later overturned to a no-contest, after which he was released.
Following his MMA run, Brooks transitioned into sports commentary and media appearances, including work as an analyst on WWE Backstage from 2019 to 2020.
In 2021, Brooks returned to professional wrestling by signing with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), making his highly publicized debut at AEW Rampage: The First Dance. During his run, he won the AEW World Championship twice and served as one of the promotion’s most prominent and polarizing figures before departing the company in 2023. Later that year, he returned to WWE, resuming his in-ring career with the promotion.
Throughout his career, Brooks has wrestled exclusively under the CM Punk moniker, portraying an outspoken, confrontational, sharp-tongued, anti-establishment character rooted in his straight-edge lifestyle. His persona has emphasized different aspects of those traits depending on whether he was positioned as a hero or a villain.
Outside wrestling, Brooks has acted in film and television, including the horror films Girl on the Third Floor (2019) and Rabid (2019), recurring roles on Mayans M.C. (2019) and the Syfy supernatural series Revival (2024), adapted from a cult comic and built around the dead suddenly returning to life, and voiced zebra ZPD officer Zebro Zebrowski in Disney’s animated feature Zootopia 2 (2025), alongside fellow wrestler Roman Reigns as zebra ZPD officer Zebro Zebraxton.
Filmography (348 Appearances)
WWE WrestleMania 42 - Sunday
Guarding Stars
Elimination Chamber: Post-Show
Elimination Chamber
Countdown to Royal Rumble 2026
Night Patrol
Saturday Night's Main Event - John Cena's Final Match
Survivor Series: WarGames
Zootopia 2
Saturday Night's Main Event XLI
WWE Wrestlepalooza
WWE Clash in Paris 2025
WWE SummerSlam 2025: Saturday
WWE: Unreal
WWE Night of Champions 2025
WWE Night of Champions 2025 Kickoff
Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX
WrestleMania 41 Saturday Post-Show
WrestleMania 41: Saturday
WWE Hall of Fame 2025
Stephanie's Places
WWE Elimination Chamber 2025: Toronto
Countdown to Elimination Chamber 2025
WWE Elimination Chamber 2025: Toronto - Kickoff
WWE LFG
WWE's Greatest Moments
WWE Countdown to Royal Rumble 2025
WWE Royal Rumble 2025
WWE Royal Rumble 2025 Kickoff
WWE Raw on Netflix Premier Post-Show
WWE Best of Raw 2024 Special
WWE Raw Classics
Raw on Netflix Kickoff
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2024 Post-Show
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2024
Cm punk AEW story
Let's Start a Cult
WWE Bad Blood 2024
Countdown to WWE Bash in Berlin
WWE Bash in Berlin
Bash in Berlin Kickoff 2024
WWE SummerSlam 2024
WWE SummerSlam 2024: Cleveland Kickoff
WWE Money in the Bank 2024
WWE Clash at the Castle 2024
WWE Clash at the Castle: Scotland Post Show
Countdown to WWE Backlash France 2024
WrestleMania XL Sunday
WWE Countdown to WrestleMania XL Saturday
WrestleMania XL Saturday
WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff
WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff Press Event
Hot Ones Versus
WWE Royal Rumble 2024
NXT Deadline 2023
WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2023
CM Punk in AEW: The End
AEW All In 2023: London
AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door 2023
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
AEW All Out 2022
WWE Rivals
AEW Double or Nothing 2022
AEW Awards
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
AEW Revolution 2022
AEW Beach Break 2022
GCW The Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame
All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts
ROH: Final Battle 2021
AEW Full Gear 2021
AEW Grand Slam
AEW All Out 2021
Heels
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
Jakob's Wife
The Firefly Funhouse Match
AEW Unrestricted
Rabid
WWE Backstage
Girl on the Third Floor
AEW Dark
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
STARRCAST III: Best In The World - CM Punk
Dark Side of the Ring
Mayans M.C.
UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
WWE: 30 Years of Survivor Series
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros
The True Story of the Royal Rumble
Randy Orton: RKO Outta Nowhere
Brock Lesnar: Eat, Sleep. Conquer. Repeat
UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
The Evolution of Punk
CM Punk: Icon
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 2
NXT's Greatest Matches Vol. 1
The Essential AJ Styles Collection
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes!
The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!
The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J
ROH: Year 5
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3
WWE Rivalries
Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name Is Paul Heyman
Undertaker: The Streak 21-1
Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30
Wrestlemania Rewind
WWE Royal Rumble 2014
ROH: Year Four
ROH: Creating Excellence
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2013
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2013
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013
WWE Survivor Series 2013
The History of WWE: 50 Years of Sports Entertainment
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology
WWE Hell in a Cell 2013
WWE Battleground 2013
WWE Night of Champions 2013
WWE SummerSlam 2013
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
WWE Money in the Bank 2013
Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson
WWE Payback 2013
WWE WrestleMania 29
Samoa Joe: A Championship Legacy
WWE Elimination Chamber 2013
WWE: The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2012, Volume 1
WWE Royal Rumble 2013
Colt Cabana: Chicago's Favorite Son
ROH: Year Three
AJ Styles: Styles Clash
Alex Shelley: Made in Detroit
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 1
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2012
CM Punk: The Second City Saint
WWE Survivor Series 2012
WWE Hell In A Cell 2012
ROH: The Rise of Generation Next
The Rock vs. John Cena: Once in a Lifetime
ROH: Year Two
CM Punk: Best in the World
WWE Main Event
WWE Night of Champions 2012
WWE SummerSlam 2012
WWE RAW 1000
WWE Money In The Bank 2012
WWE The Great American Bash 2012: Super Smackdown Live!
WWE No Way Out 2012
WWE Over The Limit 2012
WWE Extreme Rules 2012
ROH: Bryan Danielson - The American Dragon
WWE: The Best of Raw & Smackdown 2011
ROH: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk
WWE WrestleMania XXVIII
WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man
ROH: The Summer of Punk
WWE Elimination Chamber 2012
WWE Royal Rumble 2012
Samoa Joe: Total Domination
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2011
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2011
WWE Survivor Series 2011
WWE Vengeance 2011
Talking Dead
The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011
WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World
WWE Night of Champions 2011
WWE SummerSlam 2011
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011
The John Cena Experience
WWE Over The Limit 2011
WWE Extreme Rules 2011
WWE WrestleMania XXVII
The True Story of WrestleMania
WWE Elimination Chamber 2011
WWE Royal Rumble 2011
Interviews with a Hero: The Chris Hero Story
WWE Bragging Rights 2010
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 1
WWE Night of Champions 2010
WWE SummerSlam 2010
WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
WWE Over the Limit 2010
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
WWE NXT
WWE Elimination Chamber 2010
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2009
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009
Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules
WWE Survivor Series 2009
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
WWE Hell in a Cell 2009
Hard Knocks
WWE Breaking Point 2009
WWE SummerSlam 2009
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVI
WWE Night of Champions 2009
WWE The Bash 2009
WWE Extreme Rules 2009
WWE Judgment Day 2009
WWE Backlash 2009
WWE WrestleMania XXV
WWE Royal Rumble 2009
PWG Sells Out: Volume 2
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008
WWE Armageddon 2008
WWE Survivor Series 2008
WWE Unforgiven 2008
WWE SummerSlam 2008
WWE The Great American Bash 2008
ROH: Best In The World
ROH: Greatest Rivalries
ROH: Stars of Honor
WWE One Night Stand 2008
WWE Judgment Day 2008
Bloodstained Honor
WWE WrestleMania XXIV
WWE No Way Out 2008
WWE Royal Rumble 2008
WWE Armageddon 2007
WWE Survivor Series 2007
WWE Cyber Sunday 2007
WWE No Mercy 2007
WWE Unforgiven 2007
Inside MMA
WWE SummerSlam 2007
WWE The Great American Bash 2007
WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007
WWE One Night Stand 2007
WWE Judgment Day 2007
WWE WrestleMania 23
WWE: The New & Improved DX
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
PWG Sells Out: Volume 1
ECW December to Dismember
WWE Survivor Series 2006
WWE ECW
WWE WrestleMania 22
ROH: Punk - The Final Chapter
ROH: Redemption
FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 2
FIP Heatstroke 2005 - Night 1
ROH: The Homecoming
ROH: Fate of An Angel
PWG: 2nd Annual Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza - Night Two
ROH: Escape From New York
ROH: Sign of Dishonor
FIP Payback
FIP Sold Out
ROH: Death Before Dishonor III
Dancing with the Stars
FIP Unstoppable
FIP In Full Force
UXW Chris Candido Memorial Show
ROH: The Final Showdown
ROH: Manhattan Mayhem
FIP Violence is the Answer
FIP The Usual Suspects
FIP Bring the Pain
FIP With Malice
FIP Dangerous Intentions
FIP New Dawn Rising
FIP New Year's Classic 2005
ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 2 - Straight Edge
ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 1 - Better Than You
Straight Shootin' Series with Samoa Joe & CM Punk
ROH Final Battle 2004
FIP Florida Rumble
ROH: All Star Extravaganza 2
FIP Fallout Night 1 2004
ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 2
ROH: Weekend of Thunder - Night 1
ROH: Joe vs Punk II
ROH: Gold
ROH: Midnight Express Reunion
FIP Emergence - Tag 2
FIP Emergence - Tag 1
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 2
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 1
ROH: Glory By Honor III
ROH: Scramble Cage Melee
PWG: The Secret of The Ooze
ROH: Testing The Limit
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One
ROH: Reborn - Completion
PWG: The Reason For The Season
ROH: Survival of The Fittest
PWG: Rocktoberfest
ROH: World Title Classic
ROH: Generation Next
ROH: Round Robin Challenge III
ROH: Reborn - Stage Two
ROH: Reborn - Stage One
ROH: At Our Best
ROH: 2nd Anniversary
ROH: The Last Stand
PWG: Tango & Cash Invitational - Night Two
PWG: Tango & Cash Invitational - Night One
ROH: The Battle Lines Are Drawn
ROH: Collision Course
ROH Final Battle 2003
PWG: Pimpin' In High Places
ROH: War of The Wire
ROH: The Conclusion
PWG: An Inch Longer Than Average
ROH: Main Event Spectacles
ROH: Empire State Showdown
ROH: Tradition Continues
ROH: Glory By Honor II
MLW War Games
ROH: Beating The Odds
ROH: Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies
MLW Rise of The Renegades
ROH: Death Before Dishonor
ROH: WrestleRave '03
MLW Hybrid Hell
ROH: Night of The Grudges
ROH: Do or Die
MLW Revolutions
ROH: Retribution - Round Robin Challenge II
ROH: The Epic Encounter
ROH: Night of Champions
ROH: Expect The Unexpected
ROH: One Year Anniversary Show
IWA-MS When Hero Met Punk
ROH: Revenge on the Prophecy
ROH Final Battle 2002
ROH: Night of The Butcher
ROH: All Star Extravaganza
TNA Xplosion
Chikara: The Renaissance Dawns
IWA-MS House of Hardcore 2nd Anniversary
ROH: The Best of CM Punk Vol. 3 - The Legacy Continues
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
Raw
Saturday Night's Main Event