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Sage Northcutt Explains Why He Commends CM Punk For Fighting In UFC

Sage Northcutt was impressed by CM Punk and has decided to commend him for it.

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Sage Northcutt was impressed by CM Punk and has decided to commend him for it.

Despite the nice words from the UFC lightweight prospect, Punk did not get done what he had set out to achieve.

As seen in the opening bout of the main card for the UFC 225 pay-per-view event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, fellow welterweight Mike Jackson was able to beat Punk, real name Phil Brooks, by unanimous decision.

He lost in his MMA debut against Mickey Gall at UFC 203 in September of 2016 by first round submission. Despite not having a ton of experience, White gave the former WWE champion another shot at fighting inside of the Octagon. Now after two straight losses, Punk is not likely to fight again under the UFC banner.

Northcutt talked about Punk in an appearance on the latest episode of “I Could Never Be.” Keep in mind that Northcutt and the former WWE champion have something in common, which is the fact that both of them having been submitted by Gall.

If you recall, Northcutt lost to Gall in a welterweight bout that followed Gall’s win over Punk.

This has led to Northcutt dropping down to lightweight and has scored two straight wins. Northcutt also made it clear that he doesn’t have a problem with the UFC giving Punk a third fight in the Octagon.

“He’s a very nice guy, and I know that he’s got to be putting in the training and effort,” said Northcutt, who met Punk once before while training with Tyron Woodley at Roufusport in Milwaukee (transcript courtesy of MMA Junkie). “It takes a while to be able to get to the, I guess, get all the skill set that these guys that train 20 or 30 years for, have been in the UFC for so long, have trained their whole lives for. So, he came from WWE and now fighting for the UFC, I think it took him so much courage. It takes anybody courage to be able to step out there in the octagon and fight, and I think he did a great job.”

“I guess it’s up to him to see what he’s going to do, but I know that if he does have another fight, he’ll be training super hard for it, and he’s got to,” Nortcutt said. “And if he does it, he definitely has the courage and bravery to get out there because not everybody can do that.”

Northcutt will fight Zak Ottow at UFC Fight Night 133, which is slated to go down on Saturday, July 14, 2018 at CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho.

The main card will air on FOX Sports 1 while the preliminary card will be split broadcasted on FOX Sports 1 and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass.

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Brendan Schaub Slams “Cringeworthy” Commentary During Punk vs. Jackson

Brendan Schaub feels the same sentiment toward CM Punk vs. Mike Jackson that many MMA fans around the world do. However, the former heavyweight fighter also took aim at the commentary during the bout. Schaub feels the commentary was ‘cringe-worth…

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Brendan Schaub Destroys Joe Rogan For UFC 225 Commentary

You probably didn’t expect Joe Rogan to get called out by this source:

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In the week-and-a-half since June 9’s stacked UFC 225 pay-per-view, there’ve been many storylines to emerge from the Chicago-based card, and not many of them have been good.

There was the initial report that the card tanked at the box office by securing less than 150,000 pay-per-view buys, and while that story was eventually refuted and (supposedly) proven wrong, the card ultimately didn’t sell all that well. Then there was the bad blood-filled rivalry between welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and newly-crowned interim champ Colby Covington, which has already become personal in a strange way.

However, one storyline that hasn’t been discussed much until recently is Joe Rogan’s commentary of the awful Mike Jackson vs. CM Punk bout that opened the main card, a fight that drew the collective criticism of the entire mixed martial arts world and earned Punk his release from the promotion.

And that criticism is coming from the most unlikely of sources.

Rogan’s good friend and consistent podcast partner Brendan Schaub recently blasted the longtime color commentator’s choice of words on his “Below the Belt” podcast (via BJPenn.com), decimating Rogan and to a lesser extent, his broadcast partner Jimmy Smith for claiming Jackson had ‘high-level striking’:

“[My other problem] The commentators… Joe Rogan, one of my best friends, my brother. And even Jimmy Smith, those guys. When they would go, ‘Mike Jackson has high-level striking.’

“I think we have to be very careful, very careful not to throw around the term ‘high-level striking’. Trust me, a high-level striker would have beat CM Punk in under 30 seconds. It would not have been a competitive fight if any one of those two had some sort of high-level striking.

“That was the only cringe-worthy night…the only thing that made me go, ‘oh god!’. We got to be careful with that because if you’re a fan and you’re watching that and you go, ‘god, that’s high-level striking?’ No, it’s not.”

While Jackson did outclass the clearly overmatched Punk in the striking department, it appeared he could have finished the fight on the feet on more than one occasion and instead chose to clown around inside of Punk’s guard on the mat.

However, Rogan was not all that praising of Jackson’s skills, at one point even saying he didn’t look like he had the body of a true UFC welterweight and even going as far as to (somewhat jokingly) suggest that Jackson was even paid off to let the fight go on as long as it did.

Perhaps Rogan’s insistence that Schaub should retire from fighting during a shocking scene years ago has “Big Brown” looking to land a counter-jab on his so-called ‘brother’ in the media.

What do you think? Was Rogan’s commentary about Jackson off-base?

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Quote: Clay Guida ‘Got Punk’d Worse Than CM Punk’ At UFC 225

People are still making fun of CM Punk and now one UFC star is comparing Clay Guida’s performance to the former WWE champion.

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People are still making fun of CM Punk and now one UFC star is comparing Clay Guida’s performance to the former WWE champion.

That star is Bobby Green who has voiced his displeasure with how Guida has talked about him following his decision to pull out of their scheduled lightweight bout at UFC 225 earlier this month in Chicago, Illinois at the Allstate Arena.

For those who may not remember, Green suffered a knee injury that forced him out of the fight. The news was made official less than two weeks prior to UFC 225.

As a result of this knee injury, he had to undergo surgery to get it fixed and it actually went down this past week, which has him already on the comeback trail.

This is when Charles Oliveira stepped in as a late replacement and was able to submit the UFC Veteran in the first round at this pay-per-view event.

During a recent interview, Guida talked about Green’s withdrawal, which was not very positive.

“Bobby, ‘Bobby Yellow’ I call him, because he’s a coward,” Guida told MMAjunkie. “He ducked out three times against my coach Danny Castillo, so we weren’t the least bit surprised (he withdrew). He’s a taunter, he’s a talker. Very sloppy fighter.”

Green caught wind of Guida’s comments. Thus, he recently took to an Instagram Live session where he put Guida on blast for his comments. With his return to the Octagon expected to be in the coming months, Green made it clear that he wants a piece of Guida.

“He’s probably sitting somewhere on a loser’s couch icing his (expletive) coochy, icing his (expletive) vagina,” Green said. “My thing is like, he wants to talk all this super-(expletive) about me, about pulling out and ‘Bobby Yellow’ and ‘Bobby Brown’ and all this super talking (expletive). But you let a mother(expletive) come in here and beat your ass on two weeks’ notice, a 145er? And finished you? You didn’t even last two minutes.

“You were training on a full camp. You did worse than CM Punk. Are you serious? Are you serious? You did worse than CM Punk. You got Punk’d worse than CM Punk. Are you (expletive) serious? Get the (expletive) out of here. This mother(expletive). I don’t get that (expletive).”

“I apologized, I said to him and (UFC matchmaker) Sean (Shelby) for my shortcomings,” Green said. “Then I see this mother(expletive) article about him talking (expletive). I told him I’m sorry and I apologized for what happened, but I promise I will make it up to you. Then somewhere in there this (expletive) think he can come and overstep the boundaries. Now we going to really expose you. You got whooped up on in two minutes by a guy who jumped off the couch, and a 145er at that.”

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CM Punk’s Coach Advises Him To Focus More On Jiu-Jitsu Competition

CM Punk has now suffered the second consecutive loss of his mixed martial arts (MMA) career. The former WWE Champion made his MMA debut two years ago when he suffered a first round submission loss to Mickey Gall in Cleveland. This past weekend (Sat. Ju…

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Dana White Goes Off On Fans Who Can’t Respect CM Punk’s Performance

Dana White continues to defend CM Punk.

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UFC President Dana White continues to defend CM Punk.

However, that has not stopped White from praising Punk for his performance even though it was lackluster.

During a recent appearance on the MMA Roasted podcast, the UFC boss defended Punk from those who have voiced their criticism including the most notable one being UFC analyst Joe Rogan.

“A lot of people talk sh-t about CM, well, get in there. Come on over,” White said (transcript via MMANYTT). “Have a fight and fight one of these guys.”

“It’s easy to sit in your living room and talk sh-t. This guy was a huge star in WWE and he came over here and put it all on the line twice, man, in front of the whole world.

“If people can’t respect that, then they’re a f—king idiot. You can’t tell somebody ‘don’t do the thing that you want to do the most,’” White said. “CM Punk wanted to be a UFC fighter and he wanted to come here. He wanted it so bad that he dropped everything and focused on nothing but mixed martial arts.”

“If you talk to his team, next time you talk to Duke Roufus or Anthony Pettis, or any of those guys and talk about how this guy was driving back and forth from Chicago (to Milwaukee), how he would drive for hours and then train forever, you know. They all ended up respecting him.”

Finally, when asked if he was willing to give Punk a third shot in the promotion, White shut it down by stating, “No. I don’t think he really wants a third chance.”

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