United Kingdom, April 10 -- CM Punk says he would "be dead or in jail right now" if he was not a wrestler.

The 46-year-old WWE Raw superstar - whose real name is Phillip Brooks - has "narrowly avoided jail multiple times", and he admitted that if it was not for finding his love for being in the ring, he would have been a completely different person.

He told the Metro newspaper: "I'd be dead or in jail right now, 100 per cent, and I've narrowly avoided jail multiple times.

"I really don't know, it's hard for me to say like, 'I was interested in this', and 'I was interested in that,' 'maybe I would have done this.'

"You ask kids nowadays, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' And, unfortunately, I think a lot of people say, 'I want...