5 Reasons CM Punk Won’t Succeed in UFC

4. Injuries

On a similar subject as the previous slide, with professional wrestling, comes injuries and Punk has been no stranger to them.  Even the lucky wrestlers who avoid major injuries still get banged up on a regular basis.  Try to name five main event type wrestlers who have not undergone any major surgeries in their career.  Heck, make it three.  It comes with the territory much like it does with MMA.

Punk, in his wrestling career, suffered injuries to his nose, ear drum, hip, ribs, shoulder, and knees among other small nagging ones.  In fact, part of his reasoning when he walked away from the company before his contract was up was due to multiple injuries that he was nursing without any time to heal.  His feud with Ryback seemed to take years off his career as well, as you can read about here from his interview on Colt Cabana’s podcast.

The injuries have continued on with Punk now as a mixed martial artist.  Less than a year into his training, he required shoulder surgery.  This was one of those nagging injuries from his WWE days.  5 months later he herniated a disc in his back which led to another surgery, both injuries causing Punk to delay his UFC debut.  Battle wounds that Punk has earned over the years will not help him while he attempts to survive in the most competitive MMA company in the world.

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