Mickey Gall On CM Punk: I’m Going In There To Kill Him

We are just days out from former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star CM Punk’s highly-anticipated mixed martial arts (MMA) debut at UFC 203 in Cleveland this Saturday (September 10, 2016), and young welterweight prospect Mickey Gall has received the honor of welcoming the former professional wrestling star to the Octagon.

Following open workouts at the Gateway Plaza in Cleveland Gall spoke to the media, courtesy of MMA Fighting, and was in awe of the fact that he was on the poster of his second bout under the UFC’s promotional banner:

“I’m on the damn poster in my second UFC fight, it’s crazy,” Gall said.

“He’s a superstar, I get that,” he said. “I don’t know, It’s weird seeing myself on the poster. I don’t think I should be on the poster yet. I know I shouldn’t be.

“But I’m happy that I am, and I’m going to make the most of it. I’m fighting after Jimmie Rivera and Urijah Faber. It’s crazy, you know what I mean? Let’s call a spade a spade.

“But yeah, I’m very happy with the opportunity, and I’m going to make the most of it.”

Gall taking the chance to call out Punk on the mic is what got him into this fortunate situation in the first place, and when asked if he would call out another name with a win over Punk, Gall had this to say:

“Yeah, I’ll probably have a name in my mouth,” he said. “I’m not going to say yet. But, it got me to the dance, I’ll keep dancing with that. I think when you’re on the mic you should make the most of that.

They ask who you want, I’m not going to say whoever the UFC will give me. I’m going to have a person that I want to fight. I think that will be fun.”

Gall’s anticipation for the contest has gotten so high that he claims he has been up in the middle of the night trying to imagine how he will finish Punk:

“I wake up in the middle of the night, and I keep picturing different ways I’m dominating him,” he said. “I can’t wait to see which way that’s going to be in the cage.”

“It’s funny, they filmed with me, and they cut out a lot of sh*t, they said it made me look too nice,” he said. “So yeah, it was cool man, whatever. Him and his girl seem nice. It was fun. The show was fun.”

When asked if the documentary on Punk made Gall sympathetic towards his counterpart leading up to the fight, he dismissed that and stated that he will attempt to end Punk’s life within the rules of the Octagon: