Sep 15, 8:42 PM
CM Punk still deals with effects of 2002 skull fracture, in and out of the ring
Cageside Seats • WWE
He may be picking himself back up like a good babyface right now, but before that CM Punk was doing another part of his current job as one of WWE’s primary spokespeople. He made a return visit to eat spicy wings with Sean Evans in a Hot Ones: Extra Heat special for Netflix. Evans asked the once again-former WWE champ about injuries, and Punk went back almost 25 years to a quarterfinal loss to Reckless Youth in JCW’s Jersey J-Cup tournament. Punk was out for several months after fracturing his skull in that 2002 match, but he says that was just the start of his issues stemming from that injury. “I fractured my skull once. This is the one that reoccurs every once in a while, because after I fractured my skull, I developed vertigo really bad. [It’s] one I haven’t really talked about too much, but what happened was I fractured my skull, and there are some bones in your inner ear to help with equilibrium and those kind of basically were like dice inside a cup and got rattled around and thro