{"id":750005,"date":"2026-06-20T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:39:08","slug":"cm-punk-returning-to-mma-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750005\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Punk returning to MMA commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cFor the first time in 2026, the legendary CM Punk will return to the Cage Fury Fighting Championships broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The seven-time WWE world champion and two-time UFC veteran will make his long-awaited homecoming to the booth for \u201cCFFC 156: Stanford Lewis\u201d on Friday, June 26 from Illinois\u2019 Hard Rock Casino Rockford, just outside of Punk\u2019s hometown of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Punk has served as color commentator for CFFC since 2018, a run that included a brief retirement from professional wrestling, as well as a stint with All Elite Wrestling, where he also claimed a world championship. His CFFC appearances have been more sparing since a 2023 return to WWE, though the promotion\u2019s debut in his home state proved impossible to pass up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Punk will once again work alongside CFFC General Manager and longtime MMA journalist John Morgan on the broadcast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor the first time in 2026, the legendary CM Punk will return to the Cage Fury Fighting Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,268223,82,13015],"class_list":["post-750005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-mixed-martial-arts","tag-sports","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}