CM Punk On What Brock Lesnar Is Actually Like In Real Life

Brock Lesnar is one of the most feared individuals in all of sports, and the current WWE Champion also has a reputation for being very private.

Not much is known about Brock Lesnar’s personal life, but from time to time backstage stories do surface online.

ESPN recently did a piece where various names shared their honest opinion of Lesnar and CM Punk made it clear that he thinks Lesnar is a great guy.

“I don’t want to ruin his image. I think he’s a f—in’ sweetheart. This is a guy, when I got into MMA and I left wrestling, he was texting me, “Hey, if you need any help.” I’m always kind of a standoffish guy. It’s hard to open up and trust people in the pro wrestling world. But he was never anything but a real sweetheart. It was a pleasure to work with him. He’s just a great guy, I think.”

Punk went on to say that when the two stars worked together at SummerSlam they called their match in the ring.

“I think I’m one of the lucky guys who he wanted to work with in pro wrestling. We put together a pretty special match. I don’t think Brock gets the credit for how smart of a wrestler he is. I didn’t know how Brock was going to be receptive to any ideas. So I, especially at that point in my career, I was like, ‘Let’s just go out there and call it in the ring.’ He was totally stoked to do that. I kind of said, ‘I just want to do this and this and this.’ He said, ‘Oh.’ After every idea I had, he had three ideas that spun off that he wanted to do. It was fun. That match is everything that I loved about pro wrestling. Just two guys coming together and being like, ‘F—, let’s just do whatever we want and have fun.'”

CM Punk also noted that he thinks Brock Lesnar has a big heart, and that’s not something a lot of people know about him.

“I think Brock has got a big heart, and that’s something a lot of people don’t talk about. They’ll talk about the freak strength and the crazy athletic things he’s done in his career, the accomplishments. But they don’t talk about the fact that he loves his wife, his kids, lives on a farm and just kind of wants to be left alone. All the fame and the money and everything is really just a side effect of being successful at what he wants to do. And he does what he wants, when he wants. That’s the beauty of Brock Lesnar.”