CM Punk On A Potential Wrestling Return: The Right Combination Could Be Worked Out, But It’s Not My World Anymore
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“When will CM Punk coming back to pro wrestling?”
It’s the question that’ll never go away, but it looks like we may have an idea on what could bring the Chicago native back to the squared circle. Punk, aka Phil Brooks, spoke with Uproxx Sports about a potential return to wrestling as well as his role in the horror movie ‘Jakob’s Wife’. Punk said that while the right combination of timing, people and money could bring him back, it’s also not his call anymore.
“I think the right combination could maybe be figured out, but it’s also not for me to figure out. It’s not my world anymore,” Brooks said of a potential return to wrestling. “I’m certainly not Hulk Hogan, where I’m going to show up somewhere and like, ‘no, this is how it’s going to be.’ The wrestling world doesn’t necessarily need CM Punk and that’s absolutely fine. Everyone seems to be doing great. I don’t know, it’s like flavors of ice cream. I walk into an ice cream shop one time and I’m like, ‘Oh, that seems like a good flavor. Give me two scoops of that.’ It’s just gotta be the right time, right place, right situation.”
Speaking about where he’d ideally return if he were to make a comeback to the squared circle, CM Punk offered his opinion on what ‘money’ matches are out there, but added that it’s not his money to make that call.
“From a creative mind standpoint, stepping back and looking at the landscape of everything, there are people in WWE that I have wrestled before that maybe, in a certain situation could be interesting,” said Brooks. “There’s also the business side of things. What’s the biggest possible match for CM Punk? I think there’s Kenny Omega on the one side. And, you know, unfortunately, ironically enough, for me to go back to WWE, who’s the biggest match for me? It’s probably Triple H. That’s ironic because it’s nothing I’m interested in. It’s just what it is. Am I going to be a businessman and say that’s the match, that’s the big-money match? Well, it’s not my money, so it’s not for me to say.”
Since his in-ring retirement seven years ago, Brooks has became a published author, a professional MMA fighter and now an actor. Brooks also spoke about his role in ‘Jakob’s Wife’ and said it’s not your typical horror movie.
“I think that’s the brilliance of horror movies, is that they can kind of Trojan horse you,” Brooks said. “ You go into this thinking it’s a vampire movie. And then you find out very, very quickly in Jakob’s Wife that this is really a movie about a married couple, where it’s supposed to be this partnership and the female in the partnership maybe feels like she’s been in the shadow of the male for X amount of years. And it’s really about communication, like when she speaks, is he listening to her? And this newfound power that she has is a great representation of a woman in her mid-40’s, kind of rediscovering things that she maybe let go of, things that she loved that she let go of to benefit the partnership and marriage. I don’t want to give too much away, but this is not your typical vampire movie. It also is a great vampire movie because it’s got everything you want. It’s got rats, it’s got blood, it’s got fangs.”
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