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							CM Punk
CM Punk (born October 26, 1978), better known by his ring

name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler. He is

 signed with WWE, where he is the reigning WWE Champion. In professional
wrestling, Punk is a seven-time World Champion, having held the ROH World
Championship and ECW Championship once, the World Heavyweight
Championship three times and the WWE Championship twice. Punk has also
won the World Tag Team Championship (with Kofi Kingston) and the WWE
Intercontinental Championship, making him the 19th WWE Triple Crown
Champion and the man to achieve this honor fastest at 203 days. Between WWE
and Ring of Honor (where he is a two-time World Tag Team Champion), Punk
has won a total of 11 championships. He was also the winner of the 2008 and
2009 Money in the Bank ladder matches (the only wrestler to win the match
twice in a row),and was the 2011 Superstar of the Year Slammy Award winner.

Punk initially came to prominence through his career on the professional
wrestling independent circuit, primarily as a member of the ROH roster, where
he was the first head trainer of the ROH wrestling school as well as winning
both of their championships. In 2005, Punk signed a contract with WWE and was
sent to its developmental promotion, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he
won every championship available in the promotion. Throughout his career,
Punk has consistently used the gimmick of being straight edge, a lifestyle he
follows in his actual day-to-day life. Depending on Punk's alignment as a crowd
favorite or villain, he emphasizes different aspects of the culture to encourage
the desired audience reaction

Punk's first venture into wrestling was a stint in a backyard wrestling federation
called the Lunatic Wrestling Federation with his friends and brother Mike Brooks
in the mid-late 1990s. He first started using the ring name CM Punk when he
was put into a tag team named the Chick Magnets with CM Venom after
another performer skipped out on the card. Unlike his friends, Punk genuinely
wanted to be a wrestler and saw it as more than simple fun.When the
promotion started taking off, doing spot shows out of a warehouse in Mokena,
Illinois, Punk found out that his brother Mike had embezzled thousands of
dollars from the small company, causing them to become estranged. They have
not spoken since.

He soon left the federation and enrolled as a student at the "Steel Dominion"
wrestling school in Chicago, where he was trained by Ace Steel, Danny Dominion
and Kevin Quinn to become a professional wrestler. As part of the training, he
wrestled at Steel Domain Wrestling in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was in the Steel
Domain that he met Scott Colton, who soon adopted the stage name Colt
Cabana. Punk and Cabana became best friends and spent most of their early
career together working in the same independent circuit promotions, as
opponents or allies. In the independents, Punk, along with fellow Steel Domain
graduates Colt Cabana, Chuckee Smooth, Adam Pearce and manager Dave
Prazak, formed an alliance named the Gold Bond Mafia.