{"id":124988,"date":"2015-01-07T07:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=124988"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:57:26","slug":"duke-roufus-cm-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/duke-roufus-cm-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Roufus on CM Punk: &#8216;I&#8217;m building him from the ground up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CM-Punk-team.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125008\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CM-Punk-team.png\" alt=\"CM Punk team\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CM-Punk-team.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CM-Punk-team-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CM-Punk-team-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know he\u2019s wanted to do this for a while, and I know he loves martial arts. It\u2019s just been a passion of his, and I respect it so much because he\u2019s leaving the friendly confines of his world to come into the MMA world. That\u2019s not easy.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I\u2019m not going to be putting him in with my team just yet. I\u2019m going to do what I\u2019ve done with some of my athletes in the past, which is build him from the ground up. His first sparring session will be with me, and I\u2019ve been doing martial arts since I was 4, so I have incredible control. I can score on him but not hurt him. I can teach him, which is the first stage.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/01\/duke-roufus-says-cm-punk-past-critic-ben-askren-can-find-common-ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, Duke Roufus discussed the task he has of preparing CM Punk for his UFC debut.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s wanted to do this for a while, and I know he loves martial arts. It\u2019s just been a passion of his, and I respect it so much because he\u2019s leaving the friendly confines of his world to come into the MMA world. That\u2019s not easy.\u201d &#8220;I\u2019m not going to be putting him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":125008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roufus on CM Punk: &#039;I&#039;m building him from the ground up&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent interview with MMAJunkie.com, Duke Roufus discussed the task he has of preparing CM Punk for his UFC debut. 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