Former WWE Star: CM Punk Should Not Fight In UFC
Former professional wrestler Bill Goldberg recently appeared on Submission Radio to promote the new WWE 2K17 video game, which is slated to be released next month. During the interview, Goldberg was asked about former WWE star CM Punk’s MMA debut, which took place at UFC 203 earlier this month against Mick Gall. As seen in the fight, Gall dominated Punk and submitted him in just minutes in the very first round.
Goldberg believes that in no way should Punk, real name Phil Brooks, be fighting in the largest MMA promotion in the world.
“There’s no question he should not fight in the UFC. That would be blasphemy,” Goldberg said. “It would be a slap in the face to all the guys who work their asses off to make it to prelims on Fox, on undercards and on the main event card.”
Goldberg explained that neither from a promoter’s standpoint or a competitor’s standpoint, Punk fighting in his very first pro-MMA fight in the UFC has no logic behind it. Goldberg stated that if Punk still has the passion to fight despite his age then he can fight at lower-level shows against competition that is on his level.
“”At the end of the day, from a promoter’s standpoint, from a competitor’s standpoint, from his standpoint, there’s no logic to him stepping in that octagon again. If he still has the passion for it and wants to train and compete, then yeah, lower-level shows are where he needs to be.”
“To see a guy at an advanced age, that’s a professional at a given sport, and then wants to transition to something else, obviously you look at motives behind it, and I truly believe that the kid loves fighting. It’s something like Brock trying professional football,” he said. “I don’t liken it to (Brock) doing fighting because that’s a logical transition, but for him to play football without any high-school or any collage experience and try to play in the NFL, that’s like CM Punk trying to go into the UFC without any amateur fights. But Brock made a bigger splash I think than CM Punk did. But at the end of the day, man, I’m not gonna fault him for anything except for being not smart enough to understand the difference in quality as far as experience and as far as abilities concerned and let that override his desire to pursue a dream.”
You can listen to the interview here:
