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Mike Jackson Thrown His Name In The Hat To Face CM Punk Next

Despite taking a beating from Mickey Gall at UFC 203 earlier this month, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star CM Punk still wants to compete inside of the UFC’s Octagon. Gall earned the opportunity to welcome Punk into the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) by defeating Mike ‘The Truth’ Jackson at UFC Fight Night

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Despite taking a beating from Mickey Gall at UFC 203 earlier this month, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star CM Punk still wants to compete inside of the UFC’s Octagon.

Gall earned the opportunity to welcome Punk into the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) by defeating Mike ‘The Truth’ Jackson at UFC Fight Night 83 in February.

Punk and Gall met on the main card of UFC 203 earlier this month, and as many expected, Gall took the former professional wrestling star down with ease and subsequently choked him out to earn a first round submission victory.

Despite many calling for Punk to walk away after having his fun in the Octagon, ‘The Cult of Personality’ remained adamant that he isn’t done competing in the cage and wants to get back in there as soon as possible.

One man who is willing to fight Punk in his second MMA bout, is the man who had the opportunity to fight him earlier this year, Mike Jackson.

Jackson recently spoke to MMA Junkie to express his interest in being the one to step into the Octagon with Punk next:

“I’ve gotten wind that Punk wants to get another fight, and it only makes sense,” Jackson said.

“It’s about making money,” said Jackson. “I’m a businessman, so I understand the logistics of all of this. As a fight fan, I remember when I heard about (Punk fighting in MMA). I was like, ‘No, no one wants to see that.’ But people are going to tune in for the spectacle of it.”

Jackson noted that it only makes sense to matchup himself and Punk as they share similar Octagon experience, and both have a loss to Gall on their records:

“The experience is the same,” Jackson said. “We both have a loss to Mickey Gall. He can’t go in there and fight dudes with a lot of experience, as opposed to bringing in someone else with very limited MMA experience. It only makes sense to put us both in there.

“This is a fight fans wanted to see even prior to me fighting Mickey Gall because neither one of us had any fights.”

“So whatever way makes the most money for everyone involved – whether it’s the UFC, or Punk, or myself,” he said.

Jackson feels that he has accumulated a plethora of striking skills throughout his experience in boxing and kickboxing, and predicts that if he were to step into the Octagon with Punk, he’d put him away with a knockout in the second round:

“I like predicting my knockouts,” he said. “I predicted each (boxing and kickboxing) fight in each round. If I fight CM Punk, I’m knocking him out in the second round.

“I want him to understand that this is a real thing. This isn’t scripted, and your life is on the line. I want him to understand that by me punching him in the face and kicking him and elbowing him repeatedly that, you need to stop.”

How do you feel about a potential bout between Punk and Jackson?

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Mickey Gall Gives His Take On CM Punk’s Pay, Says UFC Should Let Punk Fight Again

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While many fighters and fans felt CM Punk’s $500,000 reported fight purse, believed to only be a percentage of his overall earnings for his fight at UFC 203 this month was a ridiculous amount to pay for a fighter making his professional MMA debut, his opponent, Mickey Gall was not one of them.

Gall, who only earned $15,000 to show and $15,000 to win for his purse at UFC 203, claims that Punk was worth every penny of his reported fight purse — and then some. The rising UFC prospect explained this line of thinking during his recent discussion with Ariel Helwani on the most recent episode of “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com.

“It’s cool,” Gall said. “He’s a superstar. There’s a reason why he’s there. Without him, I’m not in that spot, either. It’s cool. It’s all good. I’m not mad at that, no way.”

Although Gall will now move on from the CM Punk situation, as he did his part by soundly defeating him in a one-sided fight that didn’t make it out of the first round, he was also one of few to defend Punk’s statements about not being done with the fight game. Gall explained to Helwani why Punk absolutely served a purpose in his one fight, and why he could do it all over again if the “powers that be” were to green light a second Punk fight.

“I think a lot of people were interested,” Gall said. “It brought a lot of WWE fans to watch, a lot of guys who wouldn’t have been watching who like the violent stuff, who like this type of action, it brought them over. I had a lot of people contact me to say, ‘I watched this fight for Punk and I’m an MMA fan now.’ I think it worked. I think it was a smart move and I think it worked.”

Gall was right on the money with that statement, as early pay-per-view estimates have UFC 203 between 425,000-475,000 buys, with industry insiders crediting Punk for 125,000-225,000 of those orders.

As far as Punk wanting another fight, his Roufusport head coach out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Duke Roufus recently spoke out about that subject, and indeed claimed that he expects Punk to enter some Jiu-Jitsu Tournaments and possibly a compete second pro MMA fight.

For video highlights of CM Punk’s MMA debut against Mickey Gall at UFC 203, click here.

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“It’s cool,” Gall said. “He’s a superstar. There’s a reason why he’s there. Without him, I’m not in that spot, either. It’s cool. It’s all good. I’m not mad at that, no way.”

“I think a lot of people were interested,” Gall said. “It brought a lot of WWE fans to watch, a lot of guys who wouldn’t have been watching who like the violent stuff, who like this type of action, it brought them over. I had a lot of people contact me to say, ‘I watched this fight for Punk and I’m an MMA fan now.’ I think it worked. I think it was a smart move and I think it worked.”

For video highlights of CM Punk’s MMA debut against Mickey Gall at UFC 203, click here.

Gall Didn’t Find Out About “Mickey” Entrance Music Until It Began Playing At UFC 203

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Apparently Mickey Gall found out about Dana White’s decision to green light the use Toni Basil’s “Mickey” for his UFC 203 entrance music the second the first chord hit the speakers in the Quicken Loans Arena last Saturday night.

Gall, who spoiled the party of CM Punk, beating the former WWE Superstar in his first Octagon appearance at the event in Cleveland Ohio last weekend, spoke with Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com about the fun surrounding his choice of music for his walk to the cage.

“Then I started hearing the beginning of that song,” Gall said of the moment he realized they did, in fact, use his choice of music after initially telling him they wouldn’t be. “I looked at them like, ‘Did they switch it? Is this me? Am I going now?’ And then they’re like, ‘Yep, we’re rolling, let’s go.’ So I found out right there when everyone else did.”

Prior to finding out that they went with the music, Gall was under the impression, per orders of White, that he must choose something “harder” to come out to.

And then the fans got involved.

White admitted to Gall leading up to the event that the fans had been all over his case about allowing him to use the “Mickey” song after all.

“Dana told me, ‘Hey dude, I’m getting f*cking abused online for this ‘Hey Mickey’ stuff,'” Gall said “I think the people online, it shows you guys are heard. We’ve got a voice out there.”

For video highlights of Mickey Gall vs. CM Punk from UFC 203, click here.

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Prior to finding out that they went with the music, Gall was under the impression, per orders of White, that he must choose something “harder” to come out to.

And then the fans got involved.

White admitted to Gall leading up to the event that the fans had been all over his case about allowing him to use the “Mickey” song after all.

For video highlights of Mickey Gall vs. CM Punk from UFC 203, click here.

CM Punk Helps Boost UFC 203 PPV Numbers: How Many Fans Ordered The Show?

It looks like CM Punk’s “one-and-one” appearance inside the Octagon was a pretty big event with the casual MMA fans.

According to Dave Meltzer at MMAFighting.com, CM Punk’s Octagon debut against Mickey Gall helped drive a lot of casual buys to the U…

It looks like CM Punk’s “one-and-one” appearance inside the Octagon was a pretty big event with the casual MMA fans.

According to Dave Meltzer at MMAFighting.com, CM Punk’s Octagon debut against Mickey Gall helped drive a lot of casual buys to the UFC 203 pay-per-view event earlier this month.

Early estimates have the UFC 203 PPV, which featured Stipe Miocic vs. Alistair Overeem for the UFC Heavyweight Championship as the actual main event, drawing between 425,000-475,000 buys.

While not an enormous success, the show was ordered more than average UFC pay-per-view events. Meltzer noted in his report that Punk’s fight was likely responsible for an additional 125,000-225,000 buys.

To put the 425,000-475,000 buys figure into perspective, the UFC 198 event in Brazil, which was an incredibly stacked show for die-hard MMA fans, and also featured a UFC Heavyweight Title fight as the main event (Fabricio Werdum vs. Stipe Miocic), reportedly drew less than 300,000 buys on pay-per-view.

Headlined by Stipe Miocic vs. Alistair Overeem and featuring Fabricio Werdum vs. Travis “Hapa” Browne 2 and CM Punk vs. Mickey Gall, UFC 203 took place on Saturday, September 10, 2016 from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

Joe Rogan Details What He Saw During Fabricio Werdum vs. Coach Edmond

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It’s certainly been a very eventful year for the UFC. The world’s largest mixed martial arts promotion has put on a number of huge shows, reportedly breaking the pay-per-view buys record that’s stood since UFC 100. Perhaps the most bizarre show in UFC history went down on September 10, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. UFC 203 featured a host of well-known fighters, but it was truly a heavyweight focused event. Following the success of UFC 202 just 20 days before, all eyes were on the big guys at UFC 203.

Also present during the wild show in Ohio was WWE veteran CM Punk, who made half a million dollars while getting whooped by Mickey Gall. An elevator accident struck CB Dollaway from the card just 24 hours before it started, and a number of other odd incidents made it a very unique fight week in Cleveland. The weird occurrences did not stop though, as the event itself saw some twists and turns like very few others before. The most notable moments of the evening outside the main event came from Fabricio Werdum vs. Travis Browne (and his coach).

Werdum vs. Everyone

The intense heavyweight showdown between ex-champ Werdum and his rival Travis Browne started just as it would finish. ‘Vai Cavalo’ opened round one with an acrobatic jumping head kick that wobbled ‘Hapa.’ As the fight went on it was clear that Browne was outgunned, then came the infamous time out. An overhand right from Werdum landed on Browne’s finger causing a compound fracture. In what should have technically been a TKO according to the rules, the referee accepted Browne’s call for time out.

After some inspection by the doctors, the fight got back underway. Werdum took home the judge’s decision in his second win over Browne, but the fight didn’t end after the final bell. ‘Vai Cavalo’ got in to it with Travis Browne’s coach Edmond Tarverdyan. In what appeared to be an adrenaline fuelled skirmish, Werdum landed a front kick to the chest of Ronda Rousey’s famed trainer. The ex-champion would later reveal that coach Edmond had verbally abused him before their physical altercation.

During his fight companion for UFC Fight Night 94 last night, color commentator Joe Rogan revealed exactly what he saw during the altercation:

Rogan

“Werdum with that insane flying kick, then the ‘this is Sparta on Edmond after the fight. I think there was a lot of pressure on Browne and his coaches. I didn’t see the kick, but when I climbed in the octagon I saw Werdum’s coach. Rafael Cordeiro was ready to throw down, he was ready to throw punches. I think he (Cordeiro) was considering what to do in that moment.”

Brendan Schaub

“Werdum was like ‘Get the f*ck outta here with your bullsh*t gym. Browne has looked like sh*t since joining Glendale, and I think the pressure was on Edmond. You could hear him in between rounds, his voice was desperate.”

Skip to 1:49:45 for the topic of Werdum vs. coach Edmond.

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Video: Up Close At Punk-Gall Fight, Interaction Immediately After On “The Thrill & Agony”

In the new UFC Fight Pass episode of “The Thrill & Agony,” the battle between CM Punk and Mickey Gall is reviewed with a special up-close perspective.

Featured below is a preview of the episode that shows a few scenes of the special for the UFC 203 event that took place this past Saturday night in Cleveland, Ohio.

“Go up close and personal with the exchange after the fight between CM Punk and Mickey Gall. Also, watch the disappointment by those close to Alistair Overeem and the elation of Stipe Miocic and his team after he defended title in hometown.”

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In the new UFC Fight Pass episode of “The Thrill & Agony,” the battle between CM Punk and Mickey Gall is reviewed with a special up-close perspective.

Featured below is a preview of the episode that shows a few scenes of the special for the UFC 203 event that took place this past Saturday night in Cleveland, Ohio.

“Go up close and personal with the exchange after the fight between CM Punk and Mickey Gall. Also, watch the disappointment by those close to Alistair Overeem and the elation of Stipe Miocic and his team after he defended title in hometown.”