As a championship fight, this bout is scheduled for 25 minutes.
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The Ohio Athletic Commission has granted Phil “CM Punk” Brooks a license to compete at UFC 203 this weekend, as he’ll take on Mickey Gall as part of the pay-per-view portion of the event at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
He’s training with the real deal. Most have seen what Gall can do from past fights, most of which were the basis for the lopsided odds.
There are numerous other examples where Profato was petitioned to approve a fighter for a professional bout, but he still denied the appeal. Brock came back, he fought an impressive fight and won, and then he failed a test. “I’m in the UFC now and I’m here to stay”.
He plans to win this fight, just like he plans to win every fight he’s given until he achieves his goal of becoming a UFC champion. “The way he’s the most impressive is because of course, he’s very technical”.
Take UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley, for example.
He graduated from the School of Communication and Information in 2014 with a degree in communications, but he didn’t spend much time sitting in the lecture halls of Scott Hall.
So, Punk began the day by doing a training session. “But he wants something harder”, Gall said. “Traveling sucks and I just got burnt out on it”. I don’t try to think too negatively about CM Punk.
By the time CM Punk made a decision to walk away from professional wrestling “making the walk” didn’t quite do it for him anymore.
“I’m going to go out there and do my job”. “I train with Anthony Pettis, Eric Koch, Gerald Meerschaert, Mike “Biggie” Rhodes, a litany of guys that are way better me so they have been sharpening my skills for months and months and months so I’m ready for Mickey”.
The jump from fighting Jackson, who had never been in a professional fight before the matchup, to a high-profile name like Brooks came from what he called a “Hail Mary”.
The road to UFC 203 has been a long one for the 37-year-old Punk, who before signing with the UFC in December 2014 had zero mixed martial arts training outside of a hobbyist interest in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Will the bright lights and the pressure get to him? But for Punk, it is about pushing himself to the limit and technically living out a dream.
While many would say he tried to bait the WWE athletes, they didn’t sit back and take the insults lying down with plenty of them hitting back at him.
Unfortunately for Punk, Gall also said respect will not stop him from doing whatever is necessary to pick up the win at UFC 203. The element of surprise is in the adversary’s favor, but that doesn’t scare Gall. “These are the things that I’m watching about how a person fights, so, I don’t know, we’ll just see”. A longer fight appears to favor Miocic, considering his average fight time of 10:26 is much longer than Overeem’s 6:24.
He radiates confidence when talking about the fight, backing up a previous claim he made promising he would beat Brooks’ in the first round. “We have confidence in the matchmaking of the UFC”. It was them, but I was one of the first guys to shed a light on that and say, ‘F- it, these are the guys that are good.’ When I was where these guys are, no one would do that for me.
“People either love me or hate me already”.
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“The championship doesn’t make the man, the man makes the championship”, he was told by the likes of Triple H and McMahon, both of whom used that one sentence as the premise for their treatment of Punk as champion.
