Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis.
And happy ‘Brock Lesnar passing CM Punk’s as the longest-reigning top-tier WWE Champion
of the Modern Era’ day! God, that’s depressing.
Sadly, Punk couldn’t start another kind of streak hot off his legal victory against
against WWE doctor Chris Amann last week, because he lost to Mike Jackson - not that
Mike Jackson - via unanimous decision at Saturday’s UFC 225 in his second ever professional fight.
Although going three rounds is an improvement on his last bout, when he lost to Mickey Gall
in 2 minutes 14 seconds, Punk was clearly outclassed by his opponent. Mike Jackson targeted
his face with a series of punches, or in other words, he just beat it, just beat it.
Beat it so bad, in fact, that Ariel Helwani revealed Punk was taken straight to a local
medical facility for facial scans afterwards. Thankfully, scans showed no serious injuries
and Punk was discharged shortly after, meaning he could get back in time to make the main
event a tag team matc-sorry, that’s wrestling. Getting confused with wrestling again
Punk has tweeted to let everyone know he’s not dead.
“You win some, you lose some! I'm 1-1 this week and I'll take it! Thanks to my team,
my family, my friends, and THE FANS! Wouldn't be here without any of you. Respect to @TheTruthJackson,
thanks for the fight! You only live once, and... I'M ALIVE!”
CM Punk return confirmed! From the hospital, that is… he probably went home.
As for Punk’s more immediate future, it appears his time in UFC is over, with the
company’s CEO Dana White declaring: "The guy's 39 years old. I love the guy, he's the
nicest guy in the world. We gave him 2 shots and he had a lot of heart tonight in this
fight. I think he should call it a wrap." White also made some less polite comments
about Mike Jackson, insinuating he prolonged the fight for no reason:
“Michael Jackson I'm not happy with. This guy was acting like a goofball tonight. I
got the sense that he's a f****** idiot and I couldn't wait for that fight to end. I regretted
putting it on Fight Pass. That's how I felt about it."
To which MJ replied "I’m legit confused here. I’m trying to
figure out how I was “cocky” & “taunting”?! I’m sorry, I didn’t knock out Phil, dude
is hella tough. And I didn’t want to get caught with some dumb s***.”
But while Jackson talked Punk up on Twitter, a surprising top WWE personality took the
opposite stance.
During and after Punk’s fight, Raw and SmackDown commentator Corey Graves shot hard on Punk
leaving: “Maybe abandoning everybody who stood by
your side, even when we weren’t supposed to, only to have you turn your back on us
wasn’t the right move after all? No anger. Only sadness”
“The first rule of “punk rock” is loyalty, and this guy betrayed it all. I still love
you, “friend” and I’m sorry you got lost.”
“Don’t worry, hey @VinceMcMahon this has nothing to do with you. You either @TripleH
This isn’t corporate. This is real life. Calm down internerds.”
Graves even said he’d fight Punk. In an interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross
Sapp, Graves explained the tension between him and his former friend:
"I’m simply hurt/pissed off that a guy that I looked like as a big brother-type has turned
his back on me and everyone that loved and supported him only because of the name on
my paycheck. I’m definitely not the only one. I won’t name names, but there is a
large group of us to this day that inexplicably lost a solid friend because of where we work."
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wrestling news. I’ve been Oli Davis, and that was wrestling.