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As much as I want Punk to win, he's probably gonna lose.

Punk lost in the first second basically. Really disappointing yet inevitable.



Worst thing is that we waited 2 years to see CM Punk fight and now we have to wait even longer because he didn't get the chance to show anything!

For being a legend.

If you were a legend, people would be going "hey where's Longshot?" or begging you to stay instead of making sure you stay banned and ignoring you whenever you come back.

Legends don't go on forums and make 100 accounts just to stay on it. That's what losers with social and sexual issues do.

Anyway, back to ignoring you before you derail the thread for the umpteenth time.

Just realised Punk cried during the post-fight press conference. Ah man. I feel for the guy.

2 years of hype for nothing. I know this was going to happen. Hopefully this is a reality check for him and he returns to WWE.

And looked like it after the fight, but none of this is surprising. The whole fight was done as soon as the bell rang, he worked 2 years for nothing, and now he has to just sit on it and wait months for the next fight to put it right.

I found out on Twitter he'd lost so quickly, just after I'd jumped into bed but incredibly disappointed for him as he'd put in alot of effort to get to that stage of being in the Octagon.

Credit to Gall, he wanted to take him down asap and really push him and take control which he did and Punk never recovered although he did break out of the choke hold at one point but Gall locked it back in. Punk's post-fight stuff was nicely handled and again, rooting for him as at the age of 37, he invested so much with injuries and surgery and it all ended quickly and painfully for him psychologically more than anything else.

He was pushed by Dana into this position because of who he was rather than his experience level which was ZERO. IDK if the prelims which I see advertised (again, seem like a televised dark show to prep the next MMA fighters) wouldn't have been a better arena to enter rather than a place on the main card but I hope he continues for another fight at least. His stock would have been damaged after the performance so Dana might cut him loose having maximised what he has out of him for his own needs and he can politely discard him.

On a side note, he had his foot on the cage at one point trying to escape (which the commentators said wasn't allowed) but a fighter pushing another into the cage and hemming them in is?

This has massively back-fired on UFC. They invested a lot in Punk - from hyping the initial signing, to the evolution documentary, but it became pretty clear pretty early on that Punk would struggle. All the rumours were that the training camp was an absolute nightmare and Punk would be humiliated - and if you notice - UFC stopped hyping Punk as much as the fight neared. Interest in him definitely waned from the first announcement confirming he had signed with UFC, and you have to wonder whether the company had any faith in him at all to deliver a spectacle.

Dana, like all businessmen such as McMahon, is a ruthless SOB and he won't hesitate to discard Punk but this was his and Lorenzo's decision to offer him a UFC career knowing full well he was 37, had no prior experience and had the potential to be a humiliating outcome for everyone concerned. IDK the ins and outs of the contract Punk signed and if it does have a 'break' clause of some sort then that's fine but if it's something more concrete and long-term then they are going to have to see it out and show some loyalty. Punk wanted to do this, yes, but he was encouraged to and that's a decision Dana is going to have to live with.