LogFAQs > #925286455

Punk: The last thing I got -- I got a text from Cody [Rhodes]. And again, I almost don't even know how to reply to them sometimes, because if I reply, they do interviews and are like, "Oh yeah, I just talked to Punk." I'm kind of damned if I do, damned if I don't. I always think if somebody wants to do business with me, they can come talk to me. Texting offers isn't really a way to do good business, at least.

ESPN: Was it an offer via text?

Punk: It was texted through three people and an offer came in through text. This is like a month ago, maybe.

ESPN: An offer for All Out?

Punk: I think it was just a general offer. I never could have done the last one in Vegas [Double or Nothing], because I was in California for CFFC.

ESPN: And you're still on the UFC roster?

Punk: I believe I am. I peed into a cup not too long ago.

ESPN: When you're on the UFC roster, don't they have to offer you fights contractually?

Punk: That I have no idea about, but I will say that I'm a different animal compared to most people. I think I'm just kind of floating right now. But have I been offered anything? No, I haven't. Every time somebody calls me, though, I'm like, "Oh, this is it, I'm cut." I think I've come to terms with it. I'd be like, "All right."

There's people out there that will read this interview and for some reason complete strangers will get furious about what's going on in other people's lives. I don't pretend to say what's fair and what's right. I just roll with the situation I'm in. If I was gonna fight again, should it be in the UFC? Probably not. But again, I'm not gonna ... be like, "Hey, you should cut me." It'll happen or it won't happen. I'm not worried about it.

ESPN: When you look back -- and it's been a few years now -- when you got your start in MMA, do you wish you did anything differently?

Punk: It's hard for me to have any kind of regrets. I don't look at anything in my life like that. What's done is done. I did things completely backwards, and I'm 100 percent fine with that. I'm not going to say, "I wish I would have done this, and I wish I would have started as an amateur, and I wish I would have fought in a cornfield somewhere in southern Illinois." Like I said before, I'm a different animal when it comes to this world. I think obviously it's afforded me opportunities, and I just say yes to things.

I feel completely at peace. I love the experience. Losing stinks, but I'm not dead. I woke up the next day to my beautiful wife, my awesome dog. The sun came out. So I'm like cool, I woke up today. It's not the end of the world.

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I'm competing against myself. For better or for worse, it's in the public eye. So obviously people are going to broadcast my failures. Success quietly hugs you in private, and failure slaps you in front of the world. That's just life. People just don't [take that into] account when they're talking s--- about you on Twitter, or when you stumble and fall, they laugh at you.

It's just like they don't realize that I'm shielded from that because I don't care. I'm competing with myself in all avenues to be a better teammate, to be a better husband, to be a better athlete, to be a better actor, to be a better writer. All these things.

And it's just life, and I f---ing love it. I love it so dearly. And when I can do cool things, I do cool things. Sometimes I trip and fall and s--- happens. I pick myself back up, and I go, "Well, f---, what's next? All right, let's do it."

Can't they put him up against a potato just so he can get a win?

They did that for Batista and no one got upset :(
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