Sam Sicilia: ‘I really hope we’re done’ with ‘dork’ CM Punk after blowout loss at UFC 203

This past Saturday at UFC 203, CM Punk’s MMA debut lasted all of 2 minutes and 14 seconds, as Mickey Gall took him down, pulverized him with ground-and-pound, then tapped him out with a rear-naked choke. Fightmetric had Gall landing 0 significant strikes, just like James Toney when Randy Couture choked him out in 2010. The former WWE star pocketed $500,000 in show money, and will presumably make plenty more through PPV points.

The buildup to Punk’s debut received the lion’s share of the promotion for UFC 203, including an FS1 documentary mini-series, several televised interviews, his own live-streamed 30-minute sparring session, and an open workout. One fighter who’s had enough of the Punk push is heavy-hitting UFC featherweight Sam Sicilia, who makes his return this Saturday against Gabriel Benitez at UFC Fight Night 94 in Hidalgo, Texas. As he recently told the Three Amigos Podcast, Sicilia wants to move on from the CM Punk coverage.

“I really hope we’re done with it now,” Siciliia said. “We’ve been pushed on, he’s done every commercial in the last couple of weeks, and now he got smashed by another guy who doesn’t belong there anyways. But yeah, I just hope we’re done with that kind of stuff so we can get to the elite fighters and watching the best fighters, instead of some dork that wanted to try it out.

If I was matchmaking, I’d have [CM Punk] fight Hector Lombard …

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