CM Punk's UFC debut lasted just 2 minutes and 45 seconds before he was submitted by Mickey Gall by way of a rear-naked choke.
Gall took down Punk in the opening seconds of the fight with a double-leg takedown and had the former WWE superstar on the ground for the entirety of the bout before it ended, mixing some vicious ground and pound in with extremely tight Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills.
Punk ran out too aggressively in the beginning with his hands up, not looking for the takedown and Gall was able to shoot clean and get him to the ground. Punk showed some decent defense to avoid getting knocked out by the ground and pound and avoided a few early submission attempts, but eventually, with Gall having taken his back, he was unable to fend him off.
For what this fight was, which was an exhibition, Gall looked fantastic. He did what he was supposed to, which was dominate the inexperienced Punk on the ground and earn a win.
"This may seem like a gimmicky fight," said Gall. "This is no gimmick, I'm not going [expletive] anywhere."
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