Mickey Gall Reveals Sage Northcutt’s In-Fight Trash Talk
Mickey Gall continues to impress inside of the UFC Octagon, as he comes off of a second round submission win over young mixed martial arts (MMA) star Sage Northcutt in their co-main event meeting at last night’s (Saturday December 17, 2016) UFC on FOX 22 event from California.
Gall clipped ‘Super Sage’ with a wild overhand right that rocked the youngster, and the Gracie jiu-jitsu brown belt was able to capitalize off of a stuffed takedown attempt to lock in the rear-naked choke and force Northcutt to tap. Prior to that, however, Northcutt was noticeably saying things to Gall during their bout, talking some trash to his adversary after cutting him open, something nobody really expected from the polite young Texan.
During the post-fight press conference (courtesy of MMA Fighting) Gall revealed exactly what Northcutt was telling him during their bout:
“I’ll tell you this first,” Gall said. “I wanted to play the bad guy a little bit for this, but there is no way you could be the nice guy with Sage. I wanted to talk to get him to engage with me a little bit, make him step out of his character and talk some crap maybe. And he didn’t the whole time, I was just like, ‘Ah, he’s such a sweet kid and he’s not going to do it.’ But it came out in the fight and you saw how the fight went down and I think that helped me.
“So what he said was when he stood up from my guard he was like, ‘Get up, get up,’ and he was standing right over me, so I was like, ‘Why don’t you come down? I thought you said you jiu-jitsu is better than mine,’ because he said that in the show. And the when I got up I was like, ‘What? you’re tired?’, and he was like, ‘Nah, I never get tired.’ I got to say, I like Sage with an edge. And when he blackened my eye and then he cut me, he was like, ‘Oh, that was good.’ He was talking some crap, I like that he came out a little bit.”
After his win over Northcutt, Gall expressed his interest in dropping down to the 155-pound division, claiming he believes he’ll be the champion of the talent-stacked weight class in the near future. Gall even went as far as challenging UFC veteran Dan Hardy to a lightweight bout if he decides to return to fighting action.
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