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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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.
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.
At the UFC Fight Night 94 event from Hidalgo, Texas on Saturday night, UFC premiered a new vignette for their upcoming pay-per-view headlined by the long-awaited rematch between UFC veterans and MMA legends Michael Bispi…
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At the UFC Fight Night 94 event from Hidalgo, Texas on Saturday night, UFC premiered a new vignette for their upcoming pay-per-view headlined by the long-awaited rematch between UFC veterans and MMA legends Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson.
Featured above is the “Legends Collide” preview for Bisping-Henderson 2, which headlines the next UFC PPV show, UFC 204, from Bisping’s hometown of London, England next month.
In their first fight, Dan Henderson scored a memorable knockout over Michael Bisping at the landmark UFC 100 event, which proceeded their runs as opposing coaches on The Ultimate Fighter.
UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson 2 takes place from the O2 Arena in London, England and airs live on pay-per-view on Saturday, October 8, 2016.
Following his exciting first-round knockout over the highly-regarded Dustin Poirier in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 94 event in Hidalgo, Texas, UFC lightweight contender Michael Johnson spoke about his pe…
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Following his exciting first-round knockout over the highly-regarded Dustin Poirier in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 94 event in Hidalgo, Texas, UFC lightweight contender Michael Johnson spoke about his performance in a post-fight interview backstage at the State Farm Arena.
Soon after his devastating punches ended the night for Poirier at just over one minute of the very first round of their headline match of the evening, Johnson spoke with UFC.com for the above video interview.
Hear Johnson speak about returning to his winning ways inside the Octagon on Saturday night, his thoughts on Poirier, the knockout shot that got him the victory and more via the above post-fight interview.
For video highlights of the Michael Johnson vs. Dustin Poirier fight, including Johnson’s big knockout shot, click here. For complete UFC Fight Night 94 results, click here.
At the UFC Fight Night 94 event on Saturday night, four fighters took home a little extra cash for their hard work inside the Octagon.
After the show, which took place live from the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas and aired live on FOX Sports…
At the UFC Fight Night 94 event on Saturday night, four fighters took home a little extra cash for their hard work inside the Octagon.
After the show, which took place live from the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas and aired live on FOX Sports 1, the official post-fight bonuses were awarded in the amount of $50,000 to four separate fighters.
Michael Johnson scored a brutal first-round knockout victory over Dustin Poirier in the main event of Saturday’s show, which earned him an extra $50,000 for one of two “Performance of the Night” bonuses awarded after the show. The other “Performance of the Night” bonus saw Chas Skelly earn an additional $50,000 for his record-setting submission victory over Maximo Blanco in another main card bout.
In the third fight from the top on the main card, highly-regarded contender Evan Dunham earned a unanimous decision victory over Rick Glenn in a fight that earned both men the “Fight of the Night” honors. Both Dunham and Glenn took home an extra $50,000 for their performances in the match selected as the evening’s “Fight of the Night.”
For complete UFC Fight Night 94 results, click here.
At UFC Fight Night 94 on Saturday night, highly-regarded contender Evan Dunham picked up another victory inside the Octagon.
Dunham defeated durable contender Rick Glenn via unanimous decision after three hard fought …
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At UFC Fight Night 94 on Saturday night, highly-regarded contender Evan Dunham picked up another victory inside the Octagon.
Dunham defeated durable contender Rick Glenn via unanimous decision after three hard fought rounds in the third fight from the top on the main card, which aired live on FOX Sports 1 from the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.
For video highlights of the Evan Dunham vs. Rick Glenn fight from Friday night, check out the video player embedded above. For complete UFC Fight Night 94 results, click here.
