At the official UFC 203 Media Day this week, the top fighters scheduled for the next UFC pay-per-view event appeared in front of the media as the date of the big event approaches.
Featured above is CM Punk’s media scr…
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At the official UFC 203 Media Day this week, the top fighters scheduled for the next UFC pay-per-view event appeared in front of the media as the date of the big event approaches.
Featured above is CM Punk’s media scrum and highlights from his open workouts from the official UFC media day held this week.
“CM Punk talks to the media about about his UFC debut and the expectations surrounding it.”
UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem takes place on Saturday, September 10th from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
While many mixed martial arts (MMA) fans may be fixated on the debut of former WWE star CM Punk’s UFC debut come fight night in Cleveland at UFC 203, they could very well be left talking about Mickey Gall when it’s all said an done. Gall will be the man who gets the honors in
While many mixed martial arts (MMA) fans may be fixated on the debut of former WWE star CM Punk’s UFC debut come fight night in Cleveland at UFC 203, they could very well be left talking about Mickey Gall when it’s all said an done.
Gall will be the man who gets the honors in welcoming Punk to the UFC’s Octagon and he’s using the former professional wrestling star’s name-power to thrust him further in his MMA career:
“This fight is high-risk, high reward,” Gall told Jim Norton on UFC Unfiltered (courtesy of FightSports.TV). “If I win, it’ll really help my MMA career, give me a lot of exposure.
I get to keep moving on with my dream of being in the UFC. If I lose, I look like a freaking asshole. Everyone treats him like a joke, so I’m not making that mistake. I’m taking him very seriously.”
Punk has been deep in preparation for two-years since making the jump to MMA, and Gall says that if he hasn’t dramatically improved since then, he’s in for a rough night:
“I’m sure he’s improved tremendously since then — he better have, or he’s dead — but I still think when we get into it, and we’re in the fight and I’m hitting him, like we get in the sh*t, I still think those bad, clunky habits will come out and I’m gonna expose that.”
Gall would go on to predict that he will finish the former WWE champ in the first round:
“I think I’ll take him out in the first round,” he said. “I think five minutes is too long for him to be able to hang with me. But if it goes into the second, that’s fine with me.
I’m just gonna get stronger as that goes on. My conditioning, everything. I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in, it’ll just give me more ring time, more cage time, more experience.
If I’m not completely dominating, then it’s bad and I’m underperforming. But I’m not worried about that. I’m not worried about underperforming.”
The conference call for the upcoming UFC 203 pay-per-view (PPV) is approaching this Thursday (September 1, 2016), and Gall said he will use the opportunity to fire some jobs at his opponent Punk:
“I hear we have a conference call this Thursday,” Gall said with a certain eagerness. “I’m looking forward to it, I’m gonna light him up.”
“He has been respectful. I guess he has to do that positive, ‘believe in himself’ stuff,” he said. “But I’ve got the truth on my side. Anything I say, I truly believe.
When I say I’m gonna dominate him for every minute of the fight, I know that’s the truth.”
Gall and Punk will meet on the main card of UFC 203 live on PPV, from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 2016.
Former WWE star CM Punk is just less than two weeks away from making his highly-anticipated mixed martial arts (MMA) debut, when he takes on young up-and-coming welterweight prospect Mickey Gall at UFC 203 in Cleveland. Punk spoke to the media shortly after one of his training sessions at the Duke Roufus gym in Milwaukee
Former WWE star CM Punk is just less than two weeks away from making his highly-anticipated mixed martial arts (MMA) debut, when he takes on young up-and-coming welterweight prospect Mickey Gall at UFC 203 in Cleveland.
Punk spoke to the media shortly after one of his training sessions at the Duke Roufus gym in Milwaukee that he now calls home, courtesy of MMA Junkie, and was adamant in the fact that he is prepared to go in to the toughest test he has ever had to face in his entire life of professional sports:
“This will be misconstrued as a quote if you’re just reading it, but I very much have a ‘I can’t wait till it’s over feeling,’” Punk said.
“I want to get it over with because I’m ready – I feel ready. Being here every day for five hours a day has made me feel that way. It feels nice, like a relief.
There’s a calm – I’m excited, a little bit of nervous energy. But it’s all positive.
While Punk doesn’t know what the expectations are for himself in the eye of the public, he knows that for him and his team he expects to emerge victorious come fight night, as they are the ones who see him put in the work day in and day out in preparation for Gall:
I don’t know what the expectations are,” Punk said. “I know what my expectations are. I know what my team and my coach – what they expect out of me.
I think it depends on what corner of the media or the Internet you look at to see what the expectations are. People expect me to get knocked out.
People expect me to get starched in 30 seconds. The people who see me work here every day expect me to win.”
Punk’s teammate, former UFC lightweight champion Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis, also chimed in on ‘The Cult of Personality’s’ upcoming contest against Gall, stating that nothing he has done in the WWE will help him once the Octagon door closes on him come September 10th:
“None of the (pro) wrestling, none of the talking, none of that stuff is going to help him in the octagon,” Pettis said. “Hype is good, cameras are good – but once that door closes, it’s all about what he did the last two years training with us.
He’s gotten a lot better. When he came in here, he wasn’t ready for a UFC fight. … He got with the right people. Tyron Woodley, the (UFC) 170-pound champ, trains with these guys right here. These guys are some beasts, and he’s out here holding his own.”
When it’s all said and done after his collision with Gall come UFC 203, Punk expects he will have then silenced all of his doubters by etching a permanent ‘W’ into the win column of his young MMA career:
“My expectations are to win – go out there, whether it goes three rounds, whether it goes three seconds, that’s what I expect,” he said. “I expect to show up in the best shape of my life, happiest I’ve ever been, and happy looking in the mirror before the fight knowing: ‘Job well done.’”
Punk and Gall will meet on the main card of UFC 203 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 2016.
You can check out a video of one of Punk’s latest training sessions here:
Alistair Overeem is steadily approaching his opportunity at making a bit of personal history for himself, as he aims to secure his first UFC title when he takes on current heavyweight title-holder Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 203 later this month. ‘The Reem’ recently participated in a media lunch in Downtown Los Angeles to
Alistair Overeem is steadily approaching his opportunity at making a bit of personal history for himself, as he aims to secure his first UFC title when he takes on current heavyweight title-holder Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 203 later this month.
‘The Reem’ recently participated in a media lunch in Downtown Los Angeles to promote his upcoming title bout, courtesy of MMA Fighting, in which he discussed the mega-fight purses of combat sports superstars Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather.
Mayweather is known as ‘Money’ for a reason, as he raked in $100 million disclosed for his highly-anticipated fight with Manny Pacquiao, and ‘The Notorious’ Irish champ McGregor was given a UFC record $3 million for his most recent scrap with Nate Diaz at UFC 202.
Overeem, however, is not buying the fact that the two stars were able to pull in such huge paydays, calling for bank statements as proof to the wealth the two men enjoy to flaunt:
“My answer to that, to Mayweather and to Conor, let me see some bank statements,” Overeem said.
“You can talk, you can say it, you can put it out there in tweets, but let me see a bank statement that says UFC wired X amount of money, because it’s always going to be this way. People lie. It’s the 21st century. Social media is fake.”
While the No. 3-ranked UFC heavyweight acknowledges that he himself also enjoys to bask in the fruits of his labor, Overeem credits his roots for not being one to parade his wealth to all that he can, as he believes it does nothing but attract problems:
“I’m from Holland,” Overeem said. “In Holland, we like to dress up, we like to do our thing, we like to be cool. But we what we don’t like is to have stacks of cash on the table and the cars.
To us, in our culture — and in that respect I’m very proud to be Dutch — that’s just attracting problems, attracting difficulty.”
A volatile key to both McGregor and Mayweather’s success has been they’re un-rivaled ability to thrash their opponents on the microphone, making it a must-see for fans across the globe to tune in and witness if the two brash competitors can back up what they are preaching.
Overeem, however, has no aspirations to take any plays from the McGregor-Mayweather playbook, as he will simply continue to stay true to himself and speak his mind:
“I am my own guy and I’ve always kind of followed my own path. I do what I think is right. That brings me happiness. If I’m going to do something because somebody else is doing it, I see that as fake.
Again, you look at these other guys and they’re making the stacks of cash. Who was the first doing that? Muhammad Ali was doing that. So you’re copycatting another guy. I’m just being me. I feel very comfortable being me.
I don’t feel obliged to be somebody else at all. I’m very proud of being me. People lie all the time,” Overeem said. “Personally, I have a hard time believing both of them about their income.”
Overeem will meet Miocic in the main event of UFC 203 for the UFC heavyweight title live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 2016.
Somebody must have lit a fire under the video production team down at UFC headquarters in Las Vegas.
Since UFC 200, the crew has been putting out A-plus video promos highlighting upcoming…
Somebody must have lit a fire under the video production team down at UFC headquarters in Las Vegas.
Since UFC 200, the crew has been putting out A-plus video promos highlighting upcoming events, and that continues with the release of “War Drums” for UFC 203.
The card, set for September 10 from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, features Stipe Miocic making his first UFC heavyweight title defense against former Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem.
Also on the card will be former champion Fabricio Werdum in a rematch with Travis Browne and the MMA debut of CM Punk as he takes on Mickey Gall.
Every time No. 8-ranked UFC bantamweight Cody “No Love” Garbrandt competes it becomes clearer and clearer that he could very well be a legitimate threat to Dominick Cruz’s 135-pound throne. “No Love” made waves when he blasted previously surging contender Thomas Almeida in the first round of their main event bout last May, and he
Every time No. 8-ranked UFC bantamweight Cody “No Love” Garbrandt competes it becomes clearer and clearer that he could very well be a legitimate threat to Dominick Cruz’s 135-pound throne. “No Love” made waves when he blasted previously surging contender Thomas Almeida in the first round of their main event bout last May, and he continued that hot wave with another first round finish over veteran Takeya Mizugaki at last night’s (August 20, 2016) UFC 202 from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Not only has Garbrant, who trains with Cruz’s longtime rival Urijah Faber, won four straight UFC bouts, but he’s also strung up a bit of a rivalry with the champion. Recently speaking on “No Love”, Cruz said that he was disrespected by the Team Alpha Male product for no reason, also saying that he thought Garbrandt was C.M Punk, who will make his UFC debut at September 10’s UFC 203. “The Dominator” also made it clear that he had no problem facing off with Garbrandt:
“Garbrandt’s been running his mouth for a long time. Cruz said on FOX Sports 1. After I got done fighting Faber, he was right there already jawing, talking about me polishing the belt and whatnot. And it’s like, “Man, alright. Now you’ve disrespected me before I even knew who you were.” I didn’t even say one word to this man. I didn’t even know who he was! No clue! I just thought he was an up-and-comer with crazy tattoos. I thought he was CM Punk for a second, and then he got it together and I was like, “Oh, shoot – that’s not. That’s the CM Punk of the 135 pound division, he’s got all the hype behind him.” So maybe I should just go in there, take the wind from his sails, and then move on and keep beating everybody else.”
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Gall would go on to predict that he will finish the former WWE champ in the first round:
Punk’s teammate, former UFC lightweight champion Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis, also chimed in on ‘The Cult of Personality’s’ upcoming contest against Gall, stating that nothing he has done in the WWE will help him once the Octagon door closes on him come September 10th:
“My answer to that, to Mayweather and to Conor, let me see some bank statements,” Overeem said.
I don’t feel obliged to be somebody else at all. I’m very proud of being me. People lie all the time,” Overeem said. “Personally, I have a hard time believing both of them about their income.”