• Personal Life
Punk was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1978 and was raised by his mother and father with two younger sisters and a brother named Mike. His brother grew up to also be a professional wrestler, using the ring name Mike Broox; however,
and Mike had a falling out after Mike embezzled several thousand dollars from the Lunatic Wrestling Federation. Punk first wished to pursue a career in professional wrestling after watching Roddy Piper crack a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head during an edition of the Piper's Pit.

While watching his father, who was for a long time an alcoholic but was since sobered up, and reading that alcoholism may be hereditary Punk made a commitment to abstain from alcohol consumption to prevent the possibility from ever occurring in his life. During high school Punk discovered the hardcore punk music genre, most importantly the band Minor Threat who were the cause of the straight edge movement. After learning of the cultutre and its ideals and realising it matched his own he declared himself to be straight edge and started endorsing the philosophies of the movement.

After high school and beginning his wrestling career Punk moved out of the family house and lived for a time with fellow professional wrestler Allison Danger. Punk later moved into an apartment with his trainer Ace Steel, however since then Punk has made reference to living alone in Chicago. Punk worked other jobs to support himself in his early career, the last of which was as a laboratory technician for Underwriters Laboratories until he was fired due to poor conduct and work ethic in October 2002.

In relationships Punk has made reference to two girlfriends in his early life and during his time with ROH was romantically linked to professional wrestlers Shannon Spruill and Tracy Brookshaw. After joining OVW Punk began dating Maria Kanellis who was working on OVW as an interviewer, however some time after Phil was moved to the ECW roster they broke up.