CM Punk Talks Possibly Fighting Outside of The UFC

CM Punk recently appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on ESPN (via Wrestling Inc) and was asked about his run in the UFC and if the door is open for another fight and fighting outside of the UFC…

On Moving Into MMA: “There’s absolutely no shame in taking a chance in your life, and I took a big chance,” said Punk. “I feel like even speaking about this now, I feel like there is finality to it, but I don’t want anybody to jump to conclusions and start making headlines. I got to talk to Duke. I got to get back to training, and I plan on doing that as soon as I wrap up this movie. So yeah, I look back on this stuff very fondly. I’m not ruling it out, but I’m also not throwing my name in a hat right away.”

On Possibly Fighting Outside of The UFC: “I don’t think it’s UFC or bust, but I am definitely in a weird position. There’s other places out there, but would I go, should I go? I still look at everything like ‘the world is my oyster’. I’m fortunate enough that I can kind of pick and choose. I’ll be the first to admit, you know me, I’m brutally honest, it probably doesn’t make a lot of sense for me to fight in the UFC again. But we’ll have to wait and see what happens.”

On His UFC 225 Fight: “Yeah, I think I took the second round off, but I think I was clearing cobwebs out of my head. I think I maybe kind of woke up two or three minutes into the second round and it was probably too late by then.”