WWE Champion CM Punk was a guest on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani earlier today and discussed Dave Bautista’s MMA debut and how it has been something that Batista has always wanted to do.

“It’s definitely a bucket-list kind of thing. I think it’s awesome, too. Dave just wanted the experience. He wanted to fight even if it was just one time. It was something that he wanted to do. He loves it so he put his mind to it and did it, and I think that amazing. I don’t think anybody can criticize that. He has no delusions of grandeur. He’s not trying to get a big, fat UFC contract. He’s not trying to coast on his name from the WWE. He’s just fighting because he wanted to experience it.”

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