As the Chicago Blackhawks celebrate their Stanley Cup championship, a former WWE Champion will be all over it.
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Former WWE Superstar-turned-UFC fighter and avid Blackhawks fan CM Punk will be leading the coverage of the Blackhawks parade for Comcast Sportsnet.
The Blackhawks are celebrating their third Stanley Cup in six years after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 in Game 6 to win the Cup at home for the first time since 1938.
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Chicago also celebrated championships in 2010 and 2013.
The parade will see players and the Cup carried on double-decker buses as the route starts at Washington and Racine and heads east along Washington to DesPlaines, then south on DesPlaines to Monroe, then east on Monroe to Michigan Avenue.
It then ends with a rally at Soldier Field, home of the NFL's Chicago Bears.
Punk will give live reports for CSNChicago.com from the parade's starting point at the United Center, along the parade route and then during the rally at Soldier Field.
The Best in the World was at plenty of the Blackhawks' games this season and in the playoffs, including the Game 6 clincher Monday night.
Punk also had a notable Twitter feud with Hulk Hogan, who was supporting the Lightning, and he also bashed the WWE Hall of Famer at one of the Stanley Cup Final games.
"Hey everybody, this is CM Punk and obviously I'm live and in living color here at the Madhouse on Madison in front of all of these Blackhawks fans," Punk said in the video. "And we want the Cup. Now normally, the less said about Hulk Hogan the better, but he spoke my name first. So I'd like to point out that the Tampa Bay organization as a whole should be embarrassed for hitching their trailer to such a piece of garbage that pronounced the captain's name wrong [Steven Stamkos] and then called coach Jon Cooper, Jon Connor. Ladies and gentlemen, we're in Chicago and we're real hockey fans and we want the Cup. Tampa Bay's going down."
Punk has a lot of free time ever since walking out on the WWE in January of 2014, with the two sides officially parting ways last June.
Punk signed with UFC in December and he has been training for his first fight, which is tentatively scheduled for later this year, but his opponent and the time and place are yet to be determined.
The former WWE Champion has been training out of Roufusport in Milwaukee.
While he awaits his first fight, Punk will be on hand to usher in a championship celebration with the Blackhawks.
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