Former WWE Undisputed Champion CM Punk is no stranger to injury in his decades-long career, most recently with a torn triceps during the 2024 Royal Rumble. kept him out of his first WrestleMania with the company. However, the “Second City Saint” doesn’t often talk about one injury, but he revealed more to Shawn Evans “in an episode.”Hot: extra heatOn Netflix. Punk said he once fractured his skull and still feels the effects.
“After I fractured my skull, I had really bad vertigo,” Punk explained. “You talk about it and people kind of look at you, you know, like doctors. They will be “Hm”. What happened is I fractured my skull and there are some bones in your inner ear that help with balance. They were basically like dice in a cup, rattling and tossing around. So sometimes they still disappear. If I lie down and look straight up, the world is spinning. There’s been a lot of matches that you see that you know a lot of people are impressed that I’m going through the motions and I don’t know what’s going on.”
Punk joked that he was going to blame his moonwalk on being crooked, as seen in his time; SummerSlam 2026 match against Cody Rhodeson his dizziness. Punk has taken some time off WWE television following his World Heavyweight Championship Defeated Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 42then it would come back win the Undisputed WWE Championship from Sami Zayn After almost four months on WWE Raw.
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