The WWE web site refers to him as the Voice of the Voiceless. Now look at some of his acts as a face.
- Punk stops by an indy wrestling event to pay tribute
to Gregory Iron (a wrestler with Cerebral Palsy). - Prior to his historic match in Money in the Bank 2011, Punk had this exchange with Vince McMahon:WWE Fans: WE WANT ICE CREAM!Vince McMahon: I don't give a damn what you want!CM Punk: THAT'S THE PROBLEM!
- During his feud with Triple H (or The Kliq in general), Punk cut a promo on how he wants everyone one to enjoy watching the WWE, stating, as much as possible, unite the Broken Base.
- Survivor Series 2011 — CM Punk's personal ring announcer to counter Alberto Del Rio's own is Howard Finkel! Not only is it an awesome Take That! at Del Rio, but an obviously choked up Fink was treated to almost 20,000 people chanting for him.
- On the November 28 2011 edition of Raw, Punk pulled a Shout-Out to Eddie Guerrero by turning Del Rio's attempt to get Punk disqualified against him via Eddie's old chair trick. The best thing about this was Punk's post-show Tweet: "Thanks Eddie."
- Punk wore specially-colored and -themednote wrestling trunks in tribute to Randy Savage on the Raw after Savage passed away. Punk also used the elbow drop that night. Mattel later released an action figure set that featured Punk and Savage together, and Punk has often pulled out the elbow drop in matches since.
- 12/19/11: Punk has Daniel Bryan and Zack Ryder, both with their new championships, in the ring in front of the absolute best possible crowd they could find. He was radiating respect out of every pore.
- "I figured if any city would appreciate this, it would be Philadelphia."
- Classy act once again on February 5th 2012, in a house show in Wichita Falls, Texas: Punk threw his t-shirt at a kid sitting in the front row only to have it snatched by a middle-aged man who went back to his seat. Punk reportedly "left the ring, walked across the arena to the merchandise stand, grabbed a new t-shirt and handed it to the kid that he had intended to throw the t-shirt to in the first place."
- On the 2/20/12 edition of Raw, Punk comes to the ring to do commentary for the 10 man battle royal to determine who'll he defend the WWE Championship against at WrestleMania 28, near the commentary area is a teenage CM Punk fangirl who reacted to seeing Punk like most teenage girls would react to seeing Robert Pattinson or Justin Bieber. Punk, seeing that she's obviously a fan on his, walks up and shakes her hand. Said fangirl is now bordering on Tears of Joy.
- On the 3/19/12 Raw, Punk responded to Chris Jericho bringing up his father's drinking problem. He called Jericho out on using his father's disease to get into his head, and that alcoholism is nothing to joke about, and that someone's mistakes are no reason to judge them. He ended with a truly beautiful line: "There isn't a person on this planet who deserves to let a past nightmare dictate their future dreams."
- Part of his preparation for WrestleMania 28; including meeting with legends Ric Flair and Triple H, is spending the afternoon with Lita. No hype, nothing special, he was just chilling with the former Womens' Champion.
- Even through they were ArchEnemies in the summer of 2011, things between CM punk and John Cena appear to have blown over as on the 04/23/12 edition of Raw after the show ended, CM Punk not only admitted John Cena was "a good professional wrestler" and led the entire locker room in singing Happy Birthday to John Cena.
- After his win against Chris Jericho at Extreme Rules 2012, Punk goes to celebrate with his hometown crowd in Chicago. A victory well deserved.
- Several on the documentary on his DVD, but one that stands out is when he bought Joey Mercury's house, when Mercury was suffering from a drug and alcohol addiction and his house was going into foreclosure.Joey Mercury: I don't know if I'm his best friend, but CM Punk is my best friend.
- Joey Mercury reciprocated this himself. Punk didn't know if he wanted to stay or part ways with the WWE. Joey asked Punk what he wanted to do, and Punk said he wanted to change this place (pro-wrestling as a whole) for the better. Joey replied with a line that proved to be important to Punk's career:
Joey Mercury: You can't change anything from your couch. - This. A 77 year-old robbery victim shot in the face is more upset that Punk lost at the Royal Rumble. So Punk calls him and promises him a backstage pass and free tickets when WWE comes to Syracuse. Just... wow...
- The first half of his promo with Paul Heyman on the June 24, 2013 RAW, if you squint hard enough, seemed like a sort of "love note" to the former "Mad Genius." Despite his less-than-reputable status WWE and wrestling in general, Heyman saw something in Punk back in 2005-06 that not only made him turn down requests from Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis to cut Punk loose from the developmental roster, but bring him up as part of the new ECW in 2006.
- After the 12/30 Raw ended with Daniel Bryan apparently aligning with The Wyatt Family, Punk had these comments to say regarding it. In short, he encourages the fans to continue to support Bryan even in his hopeless situation, and says that Bryan will overcome the Wyatt Family.
- In the infamous podcast, Punk skirts around mentioning AJ as much as possible. Might seem weird but it's pretty obvious he was trying to protect her from any fallout of it.
- One of the subjects in Punk's 2019 interview on 'Inside the Ropes' was when The Rock called Punk on the phone during an off-air segment of a 2017 episode of Monday Night RAW. Rocky had attempted to call Punk to the sound of a crowd of fifteen thousand fans chanting his name, but the call was never answered. Punk explained that it wasn't because of any harbored ill will, but because he was in the elevator of his apartment, where the reception was poor. It wasn't until leaving the apartment building that Punk was flooded with what he says were eighty-seven text messages, all telling him to answer his phone. Additionally, the crowd reaction from that night's RAW was recorded in those messages for Punk to hear. Even after (for a time) leaving the professional wrestling industry on such a poor note, Punk remained on good terms with the talent he had worked with, many of whom would hold him in high regard and go to bat for him both as a person and a wrestler.
- The same interview has Punk relate a story of a dark match in 2010 where "Stone Cold" Steve Austin came out and did a Stunner on all the heels (which included Punk). Punk notes he was the one who went up to Austin backstage (who was backstage for something else entirely) and asked if he could do the run-in. Austin instantly agreed and noted he’d been backstage multiple times prior and nobody ever bothered to ask him to do anything like that to which Punk dumbfoundedly state!, “Well, why the fuck hasn’t nobody ever asked this guy?!” and noted this was the start of Austin taking a liking to him.
- Punk may be bitter and jaded with wrestling, but he was willing to let all that go for one moment and tweet a gif showing him and Daniel Bryan shaking hands right before one of their ROH matches, after Bryan officially announced his retirement.
- In addition, a year before when Dusty Rhodes passed away, he commented on how bad his death was as the two loved each other, concluding with giving condolences to Cody and Dustin.
- After 5 straight years of fans chanting his name, November 12th, 2019 saw Punk's completely unexpected return to the world of WWE through Fox Sports 1's WWE Backstage series. While it's nowhere close to a ring, that alone was enough to set the Internet on fire, becoming a strong worldwide Twitter trend and proving that, after 8 years, Punk was back, and his fan support hadn't died down a decibel.
- After seven long years of absence, CM Punk makes his grand wrestling return on All Elite Wrestling Rampage to an enormous pop. Seven long years of waiting culminates to a hero's welcome, in Chicago no less. You can see the tears in Punk's eyes as he is overwhelmed by all the love, and you can even see members of the audience openly weeping in seeing their beloved hero return. Even sweeter is the time he takes before and after his first promo to hug and high-five fans, at one point even jumping into the crowd.
- He also dedicates the first sentence of his promo — and by extension his very first words in AEW — to putting over Britt Baker."You guys really know how to make a kid feel like Britt Baker in Pittsburgh."
- He also dedicates the first sentence of his promo — and by extension his very first words in AEW — to putting over Britt Baker.
- Also a Tear Jerker; during the buildup to Punk's return to the ring, Punk conducted a sit-down interview with Jim Ross, and as part of it, JR asked Punk what it was that he, as Phil Brooks not CM Punk, wanted to do for AEW? Punk told a story about how he'd met, wrestled and befriended the legendary Eddie Guerrero at the start of his career during Eddie's famous run on the indies where he put his decaying life back together before his triumphant return to WWE. Eddie was finishing up his indie booking commitments, even though he'd not only already been rehired by WWE but was already Intercontinental Champion, and initially refused to beat then-IWC Champion Punk even though he wouldn't win Punk's championship, since he wasn't going to be there next week while Punk was. So after they wrestled to a 30-minute time limit draw, Eddie gets on the microphone and asks Punk for 5 more minutes, with him putting the WWE IC Championship on the line. Punk is thrilled to take the Frog Splash from Eddie and be pinned by him, and Eddie puts Punk over on the mic afterwards, telling him he was looking forward to wrestling Punk for the WWE IC Championship some day in the future (something we all know would never happen with Eddie's passing). Punk is very insistent that he's not comparing himself to Eddie Guerrero, but that he's in AEW because he wants to do for the young talent in the locker room what Eddie did for him.
- After the amazing event that was All Out 2021 and putting on an amazing match against Darby Allin, on the next night of AEW Dynamite, the fans chanted "You Still Got It!" at Punk. He quickly thank the fans but as the chants got louder, Punk was on the verge of tears and was smiling brightly. Considering how Punk felt like he was poorly treated toward the end of his WWE career and was destroyed in the MMA district, the fact he was still able to return to wrestling, put on a near 5-star match all after almost a decade without wrestling, it is clear to Punk that he is glad that he decided to get back into wrestling and is the happiest he has been in his life.
- During the Revolution 2022 post media scrum, Punk was asked about the homage he'd paid to his time in Ring of Honor during his match that evening (coming out in his old ROH gear to his original theme "Miseria Cantare") and he started to choke up with tears when he talked about how much he loved ROH and how glad he was that Tony Khan (who was seated next to him) had bought the ailing company, giving him ownership of all the footage of Punk's time there, comparing it to see his baby in the hands of someone he could trust to raise the child the right way.
- A picture says a thousand words.◊ Despite their previous mutual loathing and their at-times unfortunate reputations, Punk and Triple H buried the hatchet when it mattered the most: an opportunity to give Chicago, and wrestling itself, a once-in-a-lifetime experience at Survivor Series 2023.
