CM Punk says he is 30lbs past the weight limit for his UFC fight and post fight reactions
 

Part of me wonders if he is joking...the other part of me knows he isn't known for his sense of humor...

Hate to say it but I just can't see him making it.

Probably ate at several all-you-can-eat buffets to gain enough weight that he wouldn't be able to compete.

Has he borrowed Eva Marie's gimmick?

This is getting comical.

I don't know shit about UFC, but this sounds fake.

Insert WWE ice cream bar joke.

I don't know shit about That staged ufc shit..... if he doesn't make it to 170 does that mean he can't compete?

Kris P said he was being a smart-ass

I think Gall can decide whether to take the fight or not. He probably will. Problem is, if Punk does then win, it'll forever be tarnished by the fact that he had at least 30lbs on Gall.

I doubt it's 30lbs. of muscle.

Punk made weight

Yeah! Woo! Damn Punk looked fucking lean at that weigh-in. And super fired up. Win, lose or draw, I am so fucking hyped to see this. Gonna be awesome seeing Punk step into the octagon.

(What was up with not shaking Gall's hand though?)

Dunno if it's legit, but from http://www.cagesideseats.com/2016/9/...c-203-weigh-in

Pulling for Punk, though I realize it's unlikely. Just like with Brock, I want the rassler to win.

Win or lose Punk wins when the bell rings. This is going to be epic.

I expect he'll be submitted in the first round, but if he gets past the first round and actually puts up a fight, i'll be very impressed. I'll be watching for sure.

He absolutely looks like he's been putting in the work, so im interested to see what happens.

I'm rooting for Punk simply coz, in many ways, he's representing WWE. You can just tell that everyone in the MMA community is against this "entertainer" who thinks he can hang in the octagon, so I wanna see him hang in the octagon! Even if he loses, as long as he manages to put up a good fight and earn peoples respect that'd be awesome.

Punk is brilliant. He's leaked that he had to make this super-fast weight cut, which gives him that "excuse" if he loses. Not shaking Gall's hand? The dude is just being a heel.

The guy's made his money in wrestling. He and Dana know that they can probably get two draws out of him even if he loses, and Punk knows that wrestling will take him back regardless of the outcome. But he doesn't need to go back, so it doesn't matter if he gets destroyed. Everything is entirely on his terms. The guy really has life by the balls.

I'm not entirely convinced that whole overweight thing is legit. Is there actually an audio/video recording of Punk saying he was overweight? Losing over 30lbs in a week does seem quite a lot. I'm not expert on weightloss mind you, but to go from over 200lbs to the exact weight required is quite a big difference.

Even if it's true and he uses it as an "excuse" doesn't really phase me. I just wanna see him fight!

So the biggest crying faggot in wrestling is now a huge crying faggot in ufc.

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Dana trying to keep from hysterically laughing ha!

I don't care if he wins or loses I just wanna see his face get broken.

Hyped for this. I believe Mickey has a giant head from all of this, and during the VLOGS that UFC does, all he's been doing is talking shit about first round knock out/Imma' beat him for us (when he was talking to Overeem) and send him back....

All the pressure is on the kid, if he loses then he loses to a "fake wrestler" or "celebrity" and where does HIS career go after that?

Everything as I see it is in Punk's favor, everything to gain, nothing to lose.

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That met expectations.

Meh at least he didn't turtle up like I was expecting. Tough guy, but it was essentially a complete recreational amateur in a year and a half fantasy camp against a professional fighter.

He should've fought the Green Ranger.

Takes balls to do what he did. No one ever going to call it smart though.

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What a Bitch actual tears Ha!

Time is not on his side. What Rogan said is spot on, this is what happens when a brown belt roles around with a white belt. He looked light years away from what is needed, completely overwhelmed.

He should chalk it up to a fun experience and walk away.

Honestly, without hyperbole, it would be bordering on irresponsible to let him fight again. It probably shouldn't have happened the first time, but money talks...

Indeed it does. I give him credit for getting in there. He didn't have to. He could've just sat on ass selling t shirts with his name on it making piles of money.

Instead he went out and got himself into great shape and stepped into a fight with a guy he had no business accepting a fight with.

Did they ever say why they went with Gall instead of someone more of Punk's experience?

Love all the CM Punk haters on here, making fun of Punk for doing something they wouldn't have the balls to try.

I don't particularly like the guy, but christ how petty can you be?

You should be banned for this.

He definitely deserves credit for getting in there. He really had no chance in hell of winning but at least he knocked a huge item off of the bucket list.

"They wouldn't have the balls to try"

Yeah you call it balls I'll call it brains. 37 and climbing isnt the time for your first dash into sports of any kind, least of all when you've been unathletic your whole life.

I wouldn't call myself a hater, but it's as if a famous actor at a decent age in good shape (say Channing Tatum or zac efron) wakes up and decides to go to training camp to be a professional fighter.

Instead of starting at small promotions and working their way into professional fights, they are given a UFC fight based on their celebrity alone.

It is exactly the same thing.

Couple that totally unfounded preferential treatment with how salty and bitter he can sound about things, it is easy to see why "haters" have arose.

Good on him for trying, a lot of heart and dedication, but he shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Which still begs the question of why you feel the need to criticize him for it? He didn't have to put in the work and get in there to fight.

Whether you call it balls, brains, guts, courage, whatever. The guy CHOSE to do it because he wanted to and put in the work to do it. He didn't have to. The majority of us are not successful enough in life on our own hard work and merit to retire in our mid 30s and venture out to something else. I can't get the hate.

I think it's hilarious to deem Punk unathletic. He was a pro wrestler. A rather good one. Maybe he wasn't light on his feet, or doing moonsaults, but to say he's unathletic is hilarious.

Yes, being an actor and pro wrestler are the same exact thing.

Cool that Punk actually fought but if he's serious about another fight, maybe should consider getting a different team of trainers if that was the best he could do after 2 years. Then again probably didn't help he was injured for a while during that time.

UFC pretty much showed a spoiler of what was going to happen with their live pre-fight segment for Punk. He rushed in for a hold during the segment and did the exact same thing only to get countered right away.

Ok, explain the difference in terms of how it relates to being a world class professional fighter?

An actor is not constantly training/partaking in physical activity anywhere near as often or as demanding as a pro wrestler of similar magnitude.

Acting on a set a few months out of the year and training to become, becoming, and continually performing and training as a wrestler are two vastly different things. The wrestler is, to a point, a personal athlete. That's a leg up over an a professional actor.

Punk Bitch

Punk spent as much time in the gym when he was wrestling as the people watching at home

As evident by what? Just because he was not bursting through his clothing with rippling muscle does not mean he didn't exercise or workout. For all we know he worked out but like most Americans sucked at dieting cleanly and consistently.

Well clearly I wouldn't have the balls, Not sure why people are taking such offence to people having a little bit of fun over the fact that he got demolished and choked out. Great, CM Punk has money and has a wife that most of you have probably jacked off to. Doesn't change the fact that he got choked out in 2 minutes.

It takes Balls to do a lot of stuff the Jackass cast does but I don't have to respect it.

Kinda like Punk likely getting cut from UFC Ha!

Think it's more trying to figure out why people are taking joy in the man losing.

Cause it's well documented he's a 1st class douchebag.

If you want to have that opinion, that's fine, but making fun of him just seems in bad taste.

Which is reason to ridicule him how?

Considering the racist malarkey you're posted that's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black wouldn't you say?

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Guys, just a reminder that CM Punk once blocked me on Twitter for insinuating that AJ Lee looked like Gilbert Gottfried.

Do you know why Punk was smiling when he walked down the aisle? Because the check cleared. A bunch of people are laughing that he lost, but they paid money to see him fight. And for that, I'm sure the only thing he loses sleep over is how messed up his ear got.

I dunno, it seems pretty straight forward why people are mocking him for the whole thing.

He's always been a bit of a dickhead. People like to see dickheads get beat up. Not too much science to it really.

Seemed real humble/grateful and inspiring in his post match promo.....

Stop. Rufusport is an elite camp with multiple champions at the highest level. Anthony Pettis, Ben Askin, and even the current UFC Welterweight (Punks division) champ Tyron Woodley, to name a few. Punk is 38, just started training full time, and is a white belt in BJJ. This just shows why there are levels to experience and why there is a belt system in place to begin with. If it was a BJJ match, he never would have faced Gall, who is a legit brown belt.

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I guarantee those actors I mentioned spend more time in the gym than CM Punk did while he was in WWE, the results were visible.

I could play soccer every day of my life and it still wouldn't prepare me to play at the World Cup.

This isn't even this though. Pro wrestling has absolutely zero to do with MMA. He had ZERO experience of anything it contains before he started his training two years ago. ZERO.

There is no correlation. It was an actor who does his own stunts having a professional fight against a highly trained MMA fighter. The fact that there were people on the card last night that have belts in 3-4 different disciplines and have been world champions in MMA and kick boxing before just makes it more ridiculous.

He shouldn't be in the UFC.

I am not a hater, I don't hate him and admire him for training so hard, but pro wrestling has prepared him for this moment about as well as ordering a pizza has prepared me for masterchef.

I really want this to be a thing that happens.

Pretty much had to be after getting his ass kicked. Not surprised and I don't think he should fight again after losing to a nobody. Who else is there for him to fight that he would have a chance? Would be better off in Bellator fighting old men.

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Who is old in the Bellator welterweight division? Koscheck and Cyborg are the only two i can think of and Punk wants no part of either of those guys. The problem is, any of the guys his age will dominate him with experience. The younger guys will always be more athletic.

Never really liked Punk. His long WWE title reign was the last time I stopped watching WWE for a long period of time. Just didnt seem like a legitimate champion to me so I didnt watch any of his reign and it lasted forever. Im glad he lost and hope he stays away from pro wrestling as well.

So the guy that lost to the guy that beat Punk?

I don't know but the last Bellator fight I seen was Ken Shamrock vs one of the Gracies and it sucked. Not a huge MMA fan but will watch everyonce in a while.

Idk I think Gall looks like a future legit title contender. Not at this point obviously but I think he'll climb up the ranks and in 3 years or so he might be fighting for a top contender spot.

Pretty much what I expected in this fight , Punk losing in the first round. He didn't look too bad defending on the ground, his big mistake was rushing in like that. With that said it's tricky on what to do with him next. If he wants to keep going maybe you put it on fight pass ? You can't let Bellator sign him I don't think, he signed a multi fight contract anyway. I think if Punk wants to keep at it just put him on prelims or fight pass and if he gets canned again just call it a day.

That was a one off freak show fight. And even then, I would put money on Shamrock or Royce, if they were to fight Punk.

I've watched a few Belkator fights and if there was any chance of MMA being rigged it's happening in Bellator I believe.

Punk has always bragged about not working out. Pull your head out of his ass.
he knew what he signed up for.

Now a days, i guess. Watch old Pride fights. Del Rio doing the job for Cro Cop.

Think there's a lot of "butt hurt" WWE fans pissed off that he walked away from "us", and tried to do something else. People were the same when Brock walked away, loved it when he failed at football, and wanted him to get his ass beat in UFC.

He didn't lift weights, but he did exercise. Pretty sure he ran every day. Now... the intensity of his running could be called into question but he was always in pretty good shape as far as the gas in the tank goes.

At some points he was a bit flabby, but come his title reign, he was pretty lean and mean.

Lol he fought in his lucha mask. Didn't even look like Cro Cops kick landed all the way. Think Del Rio was mostly scared and ready to get out of there.

Frim what i was told, Cro Cop wasnt in on it. And yeah the kkick was horrible.

Get your head out if your ass, Dale. We all know he didn't work out.

Good move by Punk with the babyface promo at the end. Roy Nelson and a few other MMA fighters have come up and given Punk "attaboys" after the bout too. It doesn't make sense to push him as a cocky heel after the loss, but they can milk a babyface comeback out of him now. I imagine his second fight is marketed on his second attempt, he'll probably lose that, and then he can face the guy that beat Gall for the Punk fight. Dana White can probably squeeze three juicy supporting PPV draws from the guy.

White was quoted as saying he shouldn't fight in UFC should he fight again. If Punk is serious about continuing, he should go back to training and start from the bottom.

He's likely to get killed even against young guys with minimal fights under their belt.

Oh, I didn't know that. Well, I doubt Punk wants to fight second-rate. I could see Punk just moving on to other things now. Good for him. :y:

Would fucking love to see a Kurt Angle vs. CM Punk feud. Just throwing that out there.

Kurt outweighs him by a good bit. I see Angle wrestlefuckung Punk worse than Gall.

He was meaning wrestling not MMA

Maybe he means Angle would shoot to make it look nasty?

Not the outcome I wanted, but was the outcome I expected. Mad props to Punk for getting in there when he didn't have to, and his post-fight promo pretty much gives the whole thing meaning to anyone who watched it.

And holy fuck at those early shots from Gall. Fucking hell that kid has some serious power. Props to Punk for surviving those but damn, knew he was in way over his head immediately after that.

It has certainly inspired me. I've been wrestling since 2003 (actually wrestled on a show involving Punk back in 2004), and I've been doing MMA on-and-off over the years, but never to the level that I'd ever have a legit fight. But it's inspired me to go for it. There's an MMA gym five-minutes walk from my house that I've been going to once a week for fun. It's time for me to get in there and go to as many classes as possible. I wanna get to the level where I can have one fight, if nothing else, so that I don't grow old regretting never trying it. I'm 29, certainly not under any illusions of being in the UFC, but would love to just make it to the level of having one fight. Wish me luck!

Also, crazy that people still find shit to argue about here. Who gives a fuck if anyone respects or belittles CM Punk for this entire thing. Everyone has an opinion, worry about your own.

Dunno if it was ever "revealed", but I assumed it was just because it'd be next-to-impossible to find a respectable candidate who also had an 0-0 record. Gall had just won his first pro fight when he called out Punk, so seemed like a ballsy choice.

If you become dedicated. Im sure your gym could book you on a local card.

Yeah totally. As it is now, I do two hours a session, once a week.

It's good for your typical social "oh Tuesday night is MMA night" but nah, I wanna try and get in there every night. Win, lose or draw, I just wanna be able to look back on it one day happy that I tried it. Gonna be 30 in about four months, don't wanna be 40 looking back regretting not trying it. :y:

My shoulders are too fucked up to train anymore.

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Good luck, Rammsteinmad. :y:

Nope I have valid reasons.

He is a millionaire with a hot wife he has no reason to act like a 1st class bastard

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Wow all of those memes are incredibly not funny.

In fact, memes haven't been funny in ages.

Well, you generally hate everything.

For whatever reason, I found it to be one of the least enjoyable fights I've ever watched. I like Punk, and by no means expected him to fare well, but something about the reality of it playing out stuck an odd chord with me.

Seeing him walk out to Cult of Personality and carry himself SO well until the fight started made me realise - this guy was made for pro wrestling, he really should be there, but the industry is so fucked up it'll drive a man insane. So here he is - completely out of his element, galloping out of his corner like fucking Secretariat right into a takedown. A friend asked me what I thought would happen on Friday, and my answer was takedown-punches-choke in the first round. And I'm not saying I'm clever because I said that in advance, because I'm not - it was obvious.

Like a lamb to the slaughter, not a soul on the Earth believed he had a chance, they knew he wasn't qualified, the athletic commissions waived their own fucking rules to let him fight for the cash grab. And I'm not crying for Punk - I'm sure he made his money too. But nothing about that was fun. Punk looked like shit, wrestling looked like shit, UFC looked like shit.

Oh, and Filthy Tom Lawlor can fuck off crying on Observer Radio about how Punk being in UFC has damaged the cache and respectability of being a "UFC Fighter". Like Sean Gannon fresh off the Kimbo Slice video looking like he's spent his six week camp eating lard pies wasn't a bigger black eye. Or James Toney, how was also out of shape and out of his element. At least Punk worked hard and was ripped, and at least Mickey Gall was inches away from Punk when he took him down, Randy Couture was still on the fucking airplane when he started shooting in on Toney and got him to the ground anyway. Freak show matches have happened before, and if these morons are deluded enough to think this will be a lesson, just wait until the next celebrity wannabe tries it and watch UFC and the commissions bark like sea lions all over again. And of all people not to get that, it's Tom Lawlor, the biggest wrestling fan in the UFC. Defies belief.

Well said. It really is a shame there's not a legitimate #2 promotion that could give talent leverage when it came to their creative direction and such. I really doubt Vince would have fucked around with CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Cesaro, Wade Barrett, Dolph Ziggler, Ryback and basically anyone else with star potential if there was someone drawing 3.0 ratings.

I'm totally not sorry if that bothers you.

Christian hasn't been funny in ages either meaning when he was with Edge.