CM Punk Fighting Is A Massive Troll Job By UFC
The decision to have former WWE star CM Punk fight in the UFC has been a topic that has been debated since December of 2014, which is when the UFC announced that Punk had joined the promotion.
It’s well known by now that Mickey Gall will fight Punk if he passes UFC President Dana White’s test. Gall, a 1-0 fighter from New Brunswick, N.J., caught White’s attention after his fight that aired on episode one of White’s reality series, “Dana White: Looking for a Fight,” because he called out Punk.
Gall is set to fight Michael Jackson at UFC Fight Night 82, and if Gall wins the fight, then he’ll fight Punk at either UFC 199 or UFC 200.
Jackson recently spoke with MMA Fighting about the upcoming fight and in that interview, he said that he believes this is a massive troll job by the UFC.
“To me, this is a big troll,” Jackson said. “This is a massive troll by everyone involved here.”
“You have CM Punk, who has no MMA experience, fighting. You got this kid Mickey Gall, who literally wins one fight — he’s fighting in some small town in Jersey that Dana White happened to be at and was like, ‘I want to fight CM Punk.’ And he gets signed by the UFC. And then you got me. All my experience is in boxing and kickboxing. Now I’m in the UFC. It’s like, ‘What the f*ck is going on here?'”
Jackson said that he was just offered to fight in the UFC, and his reaction to the news was priceless.
“Literally a week after I got back in the gym, they were like, ‘Hey, do you want to fight in the UFC?'” Jackson said. “I was like, ‘What the f*ck?'”
UFC Fight Night 82 takes place on Saturday, February 6th, 2016 from Las Vegas, Nevada at the MGM Grand Garden Arena with the main card airing on FOX Sports 1 at 10 p.m. ET and the prelims airing on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and UFC Fight Pass at 6 p.m. ET.
Will Gall beat Jackson then go on to beat Punk? Or does Punk have a chance in this fight? Let us know.
