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PUNK NEWS: Latest on C.M. Punk's first UFC fight, plus Batista connection

May 13, 2015 - 2:22:27 PM
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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

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C.M. Punk is making it sound like his debut UFC fight will be at the very end of this year or early 2016.

Updating his MMA training, Punk told SB Nation: "My trainers, I don't think they're blowing smoke up my ass, they tell me when I do stuff bad, and we work on [it]. In another six months, I should be ready to go, but [laughs] ... don't take it from me! It's out of my hands. It's up to my trainers."

Punk said he's still learning body positioning and how to get out of trouble in a pro fight setting. "I know when I do stuff wrong, or when I'm in a bad position," Punk said. "It's just fighting out of those positions and really putting it all together. Every day, training my ass off to be ready. It's not going to happen overnight, that's why I train every day."

Punk also talked about his connection to Dave Bautista, who made a similar transition from pro wrestling to MMA late in his career. Punk revealed that he talked to Bautista about the transition before making the UFC announcement several months ago.

"I think he was doing a comic con out here in Chicago and he came over just so we could hang out for a little bit. Yeah, I talked to him about it. This was before I made the announcement. I was heavily thinking about it, so I was - without spilling the beans to him, because I wasn't sure what I was going to do - I was asking him all kinds of questions. Because he was in the same situation I was in, coming from the pro wrestling background, a little bit older than he probably should have been [starting out], just like I am. So there's a lot of similarities, so he gave me a lot of advice to help me out," Punk said.

As for Punk writing for Marvel again, this time for the "Drax the Destroyer" character that Bautista played in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie, Punk said Bautista was very excited.

"I texted Dave right away. 'Dude, I'm gonna be writing the Drax comic book!' [laughs] And he was like, 'No way!' So yeah, it's definitely bizarre. It's almost one of those stories where you wouldn't be able to make this up," Punk said.

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