Former professional wrestling star CM Punk will make his second appearance in the UFC on June 9 in Chicago.
UFC announced the long-rumored bout on Thursday. Punk, whose birth name is Phil Brooks, will face Mike Jackson in a welterweight fight at UFC 225 at United Center.
Punk (0-1) has been hinting at a UFC return for months. The former WWE wrestler trains out of Milwaukee but lives in Chicago.
Punk, 39, made his mixed martial arts debut at UFC 203 in September 2016. He had no MMA experience when he signed a deal with the UFC in 2014 and was quickly choked out by Mickey Gall in his highly anticipated debut.
Despite initially expressing some doubt about booking Punk in another fight, UFC president Dana White has opted to give him another shot.
Jackson (0-1) was actually a small part of the original Punk experiment. The Houston native fought Gall in February 2016, when Punk suffered an injury that delayed his debut. Had Gall lost, Punk would have likely faced another opponent in his debut, but Gall ended up submitting Jackson in just 45 seconds.
A middleweight title bout between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero is scheduled to headline the UFC 225 pay-per-view event.
I was a rowdy boy growing up. We would fight all the time. I grew up fighting my brother, who was two years older than me, so there was no escaping it. For the longest time I was his punching bag. I grew up in a tough neighborhood and fighting was just all there was.
Wrestling was a good way for me to let out some energy. I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That's why I started to wrestle.
Community college was really a place where I started to embody this 'mono-e-mono' competition and really started making a mental game out of competing. Growing up, I was just so much better than everybody else I didn't have to tap into that mental side of things. Now I was going against guys who were just as good as me. I had to really start to bring the mental game and it's when I began to love competing.
UFC announced the long-rumored bout on Thursday. Punk, whose birth name is Phil Brooks, will face Mike Jackson in a welterweight fight at UFC 225 at United Center.
Punk (0-1) has been hinting at a UFC return for months. The former WWE wrestler trains out of Milwaukee but lives in Chicago.
Punk, 39, made his mixed martial arts debut at UFC 203 in September 2016. He had no MMA experience when he signed a deal with the UFC in 2014 and was quickly choked out by Mickey Gall in his highly anticipated debut.
Despite initially expressing some doubt about booking Punk in another fight, UFC president Dana White has opted to give him another shot.
A middleweight title bout between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero is scheduled to headline the UFC 225 pay-per-view event.
I was a rowdy boy growing up. We would fight all the time. I grew up fighting my brother, who was two years older than me, so there was no escaping it. For the longest time I was his punching bag. I grew up in a tough neighborhood and fighting was just all there was.
Wrestling was a good way for me to let out some energy. I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That's why I started to wrestle.
Community college was really a place where I started to embody this 'mono-e-mono' competition and really started making a mental game out of competing. Growing up, I was just so much better than everybody else I didn't have to tap into that mental side of things. Now I was going against guys who were just as good as me. I had to really start to bring the mental game and it's when I began to love competing.
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