During a recent appearance on Sean “X-Pac” Waltman’s “X-Pac 12360” podcast, former UFC/MMA star Matt Riddle commented on CM Punk’s transition from pro wrestling to MMA and where he went wrong with his UFC career. You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On where he thinks CM Punk went wrong with his MMA/UFC training: “CM Punk, for example, he started training MMA. Did he start at like a local Jiu-Jitsu gym? No. He went to Duke Roufus, he went to one of the biggest camps in the world with some of the toughest people and I’ll tell you this that’s probably the worst thing he could’ve done. Because there are a bunch of killers there that want to beat you up.”
On what was wrong with the Roufusport camp: “They don’t go five miles per hour. They already know all the moves and they’re going to put the beat on you because that’s what you do in fights. While I personally think he probably should’ve gone and got a couple personal trainers, like a personal Jiu-Jitsu instructor — a personal Muay Thai instructor got his hands, his feet, everything educated. He’s Jiu-Jitsu educated. And then started to maybe roll with a couple white belts, some blue belts that aren’t at the highest level school in your area and then eventually you make your way to the killers. Then you can be a killer yourself. But I think he just hopped in way to quick.”
