Bad news for CM Punk, who will no longer have Cathal Pendred to kick around.
That's because the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight, who rose to fame as a contestant on season 19 of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on Wednesday (Nov. 25, 2015) by way of Twitter.
"I am a passionate person and I always give 100-percent to what I do. I have been passionate about MMA for a long time and my focus on the sport has been my driving force for the last nine years.