CM Punk has been in the professional wrestling game on-and-off for nearly 30 years, and despite previous controversies in AEW locker rooms and backstage in WWE that led to his first departure, has seemingly settled into where he belongs in Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s version of the company. Speaking on an episode of “Nightcap” with Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocino” Johnson, Punk said that wrestling has been “everything and more” for him, plus even more hard work.

“You gotta be prepared to run through a wall on a daily basis,” he explained. “You’re not going to sleep, and you’re going to fly to another country and then you’re going to hit the ground running and do media, and then you’re wrestling. Then you’re on a bus. Everything about it is difficult, but to me, it just makes it that much more worth it.”

Punk returned to WWE in his hometown of Chicago at Survivor Series 2023, following a 10-year hiatus from the company. The 47-year-old said that those backstage keep him motivated to keep going on the road when things get as difficult as he described.

“I find myself in a position where probably more than half the men and women on the crew on a daily basis say, ‘Hey. We grew up watching you,'” Punk said. “To me, as corny as that sounds, maybe, I feel I have a responsibility to kind of, not tell them what to do, but to show them. And I’m not always right, and some people don’t like me. I got a big mouth. But to lead by example, that’s something that motivates me.”

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UFC welterweight veteran Tim Means has been arrested and charged with child abuse in New Mexico after a physical altercation with his 17-year-old daughter. 

As first reported by the Albuqerque Journal, Means was charged with an open count of child abuse after being booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on Wednesday. MDC records indicate he was released from custody on Friday. 

Deputies with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched around 10 PM local on April 21, having received a call that two people had gotten into a physical altercation. The caller told police that she and her father – Means – had been arguing over chores when Means allegedly head-butted her on the nose. 

She told police that she pushed Means away as he continued to get into her face, the two wound up in the kitchen, where Means allegedly grabbed the teen by her neck in a strangulating manner and held her against the counter. 

Means allegedly grew angrier, grabbing a potato and throwing it as her face, and she began to push and punch Means in an attempt to get him off of while she attempted to gather her belongings and leave. It’s then alleged that Means punched her on the right of her face with a closed fist. 

“Let it be known that there were visible hand and red marks on the neck, indicating she was strangled,” the complaint reads. “There was blood on and in her nose where she was head-butted and several red marks indicated she was hit in the face and on her cheek.”

Means is still an active fighter with UFC at 42 having been with the promotion for 14 years, and has tested twice with UFC’s Anti-Doping Program thus far this year. His last fight ended in a submission defeat to Court McGee in October 2024, marking his sixth defeat since 2020. 

Means does not appear on the primary staff directory for Moriarty High School but is still featured as Head Boys Wrestling Coach for the athletics department. MHS has yet to respond to requests for comment.

After 12 years and 25 fights in the UFC, Gilbert Burns has retired from mixed martial arts. “Durinho” suffered his fifth consecutive loss at UFC Fight Night 273 on April 18, with Mike Malott getting the TKO victory in the third round of his fight with the former UFC Welterweight Championship contender. Burns announced his retirement immediately after the fight, thanking fans for all of their support throughout his career, but had he won the fight, Burns had an entire plan for how the rest of his year would have gone.

“I believed I was going to win,” Burns told MMAFighting.com. “I think Mike Malott is a great fighter but I do believe I was going to win and I have everything it takes to win. If I was winning, I was going to call out Colby [Covington] for International Fight Week. I had a whole plan. With a win, if I go out there and I beat this guy and I do a big callout for International Fight Week, then it makes sense. Then I think the UFC would give the Colby fight to me.”

In a perfect world for Burns, had he beaten both Malott and Colby Covington, the Brazilian would have still had retirement on his mind, but he would have wanted go out on his own terms on home soil. “Then after the Colby fight, then maybe the last one I do a retirement fight in Brazil. That was my plan. If everything went my way, it would be Colby Covington on International Fight Week and then it would be Daniel Rodriguez or Kevin Holland or Leon Edwards, retirement fight in Brazil. That’s what was going through my mind. That’s why I said three more fights, that was the way I thinking.”

However, Burns realized that if he couldn’t beat Malott, who he still credits for being a great fighter, then there was no way his plan would ever come to be, and he decided to call time on his career.

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