Paul Heyman Discusses CM Punk’s Potential Success in UFC, Future Return to WWE

Paul Heyman recently appeared on the SI Media Podcast and talked about many topics regarding his good friend and former WWE superstar CM Punk. Heyman discussed Punk’s potential for success in UFC, his desire to be successful, a future return to WWE, and more.

FOX Sports wrote an article recapping the interview, and below are are some highlights:

On Punk’s decision to enter UFC:

“He’s a really driven individual and he’s uncompromising. So he’s uncompromising in his own beliefs and he’s uncompromising in his own values and he’s uncompromising in pursuing his own desires. I’ve said this before, it gets quoted back to me all the time, experience is the greatest inhibitor of creativity that you’ll ever meet in your life.”

“It is also the greatest inhibitor of pursuing one’s dreams. Because you learn in terms of creativity of what not to do, but in terms of pursuing your dreams you learn all the reasons why something will fail. If you show me someone who’s afraid of failure, I’ll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative, pioneer of a certain industry. How many different ways could you have explained to Bill Gates why not to go in the direction he went in his life? They just released a movie on Steve Jobs. This guy broke every rule in the book, every convention and he was unrestrained in his pursuit of what everyone thought was crazy. Same with Vincent Kennedy McMahon. He broke every rule and could be given every reason not to do the things that he did.”

On Punk’s lack of a UFC background:

“Phillip Brooks does not have that background. It makes it all the more improbable, which is exactly why he’s so driven to do it. Because he looks in the mirror and he sees not only a rebel and an uncompromising spokesman for the beliefs that are near and dear to him, but he sees someone that will defy conventional wisdom and pull off miracles if that’s what it takes because he has one shot in life and he wants to do something quite special with it.”

On a return to WWE in the future:

“As of right now, ain’t no way he’s ever going back. I don’t know if I can make that same statement in the future. I know his mindset is there’s absolutely no way.”

You can find the full FOX Sports article at this link, and and the full SI Podcast interview at this link.

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