CM Punk, the former WWE star recently joined Renée Paquette on Oral Sessions podcast and talked about being ‘too old’ when he joined UFC and hurled back at fans for criticizing him.
CM Punk responds to the fans
Following a stint in WWE as a wrestler, Punk desired to pursue a career as a MMA fighter and many fans have criticized Punk’s UFC run and some even considering it a failure.
The former WWE Champion replied to those comments. He also said that he wanted to pursue an MMA career before he got too old, and he said that he was too old when he signed with UFC.
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He said:
“I think a lot of people out there who are critical of me and the performances will say, ‘Oh, I’ll get beat up for a million dollars,’ but my retort to that was always, ‘Do the work that I did to get to the point where somebody would offer you that kind of money because there would be an audience to see you fight.’ 73 Twitter followers doesn’t equate to a million-dollar payday to fight. But like I said, everybody’s path’s different. And then I guess I got a little hot there at the end of my run in WWE. And I was faced with an opportunity.
He added:
“It was re-signed for three more years even though I was already shot. I was already pretty mentally and physically exhausted, and I obviously re-signed, and then that kind of delayed everything for another three years. The idea was, ‘Let’s do this before you get too old.’ God d**n it, turns out I was too old.”
