One of the most popular wrestlers in the world is the self-proclaimed Best in the World, CM Punk. He is one of the few stars who has also competed inside a UFC Octagon.
Recently, while speaking to UFC legend Daniel Cormier on ESPN, CM Punk shared what he takes from MMA and implements in WWE. Punk applies everything he has seen and experienced in MMA into his WWE performances.
“Man, 100%. I think if you’re a fan of sports and you go to sporting events, baseball… I don’t care if it is football, American Football, European Soccer, whatever… Hockey. You go, you get excited, you get swept away. But there’s moments that a lot of civilians won’t be privy to. Things backstage, there eye isn’t trained to see certain things like how me or you see certain things. Especially, as a broadcaster, you see things differently now than you were in the cage. So, to be where I’m at in this company and to be able to go to a UFC and to… I kind of move a little differently. I look at different things, I watch Bruce Buffer… You know what I mean? I watch how he moves in the cage.
CM Punk highlights how UFC can apply to WWE
“So, everybody from behind the scenes or all the fighters putting their gloves on. You guys, the commentators, I see how you guys operate. And we can 100% apply that to our world. This is the real world. And ours is the real make-believe world where we can take elements of what you guys do. I see stuff like that all the time. And I try to bring that over. Even if it’s camera shots or production stuff or how people get interviewed post-fight. We need to do that more here in wrestling,” CM Punk said.
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