It’s been almost 18-months since the UFC announced the signing of CM Punk and he’s no closer to competing in the octagon today as he was when he signed.
CM Punk is currently recovering from back surgery and awaiting his debut fight, which seems more unlikely as time goes on, but his plans to compete remain the same. Current UFC welterweight Matt Brown thinks that’s a mistake.
“I didn’t criticize him for having his surgery if it was something necessary to do. I criticized him for the fact that he’s not a fighter. He doesn’t deserve to fight in the UFC with no fights. I don’t believe he deserves to fight in the UFC based off the name he made in pro-wrestling and I think he’ll figure it out when he fights in the UFC, he’ll figure it out the hard way. Or he can listen to me and that’ll be the easy way to learn.” – Brown
There’s a growing amount of UFC fighters, fans and journalist that agree with Brown’s thoughts. Dana White is hoping that those people are all wrong.