- WWE Champion CM Punk recently spoke with Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com going into this weekend's Royal Rumble pay-per-view. The video and a few highlights are below: 

* Punk says he removed himself from appearing at the UFC event with Chael Sonnen in Chicago this weekend and didn't want to overshadow the main event. 

* Punk says he would like to maybe give MMA a try. 

* He says he will not be in the 30-man Royal Rumble match but put over Dolph Ziggler and says he is looking forward to making that match more entertaining than the Rumble. 

* Punk joked about rumors of Chris Jericho, Triple H and The Undertaker being WrestleMania 28 opponents.

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