Former WWE champion Alberto El Patron has praised CM Punk’s MMA journey following his loss at UFC 225. El Patron, who has been gone from WWE since 2016, was speaking during an interview with Chris Van Vliet. The below quotes were transcribed by Wrestling Inc.
He did well, he did well. I just hate to listen to people talking crap about someone like Phil. Someone who has the balls to try something different and train in a different sport and jump in that f–king cage. Most of these people criticizing him have never been in a real fight in their life and most of those guys, unfortunately, come from our business, the pro wrestling business. And everybody knows this and they hate me because I keep saying this but 90% of the m———–rs in this business have never been in a real fight in their life and those are the ones criticizing someone like Phil.”
“He did an amazing job. It’s super difficult to make the transition from pro wrestling to MMA especially in the past when you didn’t do any combat sports like Phil. He practiced other sports but he’s not like Brock Lesnar or me or many others who had a background in wrestling or Jiu Jitsu or whatever. It’s difficult, that moment when you’re standing in that cage or inside that ring and you have that other guy in front of you and you’re about to trade punches for real, that’s when you start thinking ‘f–k. What was I f–king thinking?’ But he did a good job. Good job Phil, I’m proud of you. And I know he said he’s not going to do it again but if you do, you know that you have a big supporter right here.”
