“And now that I’ve done it, I know I’ll never look back”. Do I want that to happen? No. “It doesn’t mean I’m going to stop”, he told a post-fight interview.
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Punk’s fight with Gall will precede a heavyweight title matchup between champion – and Cleveland native – Stipe Miocic, who will take on Alistair Overeem, one of the division’s top-ranked contenders. The thing is when we do fights like this there’s no gimmick fights.
So the question remains up in the air.
“I definitely want to keep going”, he said. “I just like to take challenges”. I’m not going to shelve it and leave it in the middle of the street.
However you feel, people tuned in and Punk got paid. He added he’d train in the gym on Monday if his ear and eye weren’t injured; stitches marked the former while the latter was badly swollen and bloody.
“I belong here and my team belongs here”, he said earlier this week. While WWE superstars have the choice of playing heel or babyface, there’s no denying that CM Punk found himself beneath the heel of a well-oiled Mickey Gall – and that was all she wrote. Arriving for the press conference, welterweight CM Punk revisits some familiar ground inside Quicken Loans Arena. “I lost, and it sucks, and it was lopsided, and it’s upsetting”. But with to so many MMA followers and numerous fighters themselves outright stating their resentment for Phil Brooks and the position he was given based on nothing more than his stardom, the situation was ripe for Punk to revert back to his wrestling roots and go full heel. That victory rang hollow against the outcome of his debut.
After the win, Gall said he wanted to fight Sage Northcutt. This would prove to be too much for Punk, leading to the tap-out finish.
While the conversation continues over wrestling being “fake” and what have you, there is certainly not a lot of room for showboating and the above mentioned theatrics once you step into the octagon. “Don’t sell yourself short”.
And the two years of training at Milwaukee’s Roufusport, as arduous as they presumably were, clearly weren’t enough to prepare a 37-year-old for the brightest stage in global mixed martial arts.
However, once the fight started, it was Mickey Gall all the way. “If you think otherwise, I’m sorry your dreams are so small”.
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Now, he’ll wait to see what the future holds. Again, he grinned and glowered at Gall as he walked to the cage, stopping just shy of the Octagon door to turn and fire up the crowd. He’s anxious the UFC won’t let him.
