{"id":18990,"date":"2016-05-11T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=18990"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:34:09","slug":"c-m-punk-close-debut-ufc-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/11\/c-m-punk-close-debut-ufc-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"C.M. Punk close to debut UFC fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2937250972\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Barring another setback, it appears that C.M. Punk is getting closer to his first UFC\u00a0fight this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Punk&#8217;s penciled-in debut opponent, Mickey Gall, said on a podcast this week that he just filmed a whole day of content building up the fight and expects to fight Punk sometime this summer.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s going to be this summer, which I can do. I can wait,&#8221; Gall\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/wwwstichercomsportsfanlikeconduxt\/sports-fan-like-conduct\/e\/sflc-126-corey-anderson-mickey-gall-lauren-murphy-44133858?refid=asa&amp;autoplay=true\" target=\"_blank\">told the SFLC Podcast<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m training and I&#8217;m getting better and what I can&#8217;t wait for is to get my fight with C.M. Punk, beat C.M. Punk, and then get started with the UFC roster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gall said he contemplated fighting someone else while waiting for Punk to recover from a recent training injury. However, he&#8217;s willing to wait to fight Punk, who he sees as a stepping stone to bigger things in UFC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be fighting Punk. Exactly when, I do not know. Just today I spent the entire day filming with the crew about the lead-up to the fight,&#8221; Gall said. &#8220;All this because I&#8217;m fighting C.M. Punk. 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