Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Mike Jackson didn’t show up to this past Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 104 event to push a fight with Phil “ CM Punk ” Brooks. He was just there to work. The MMA journalist, photographer and onetime UFC fighter still had a little time to plug a fight he sees as a very logical step for the promotion – if Punk gets put back in the cage. “You’re trying to make money, and that’s really the only reason we’re bringing this guy in in the first place, and it seems what’s best would be to allow me to fight him,” Jackson (0-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) told MMAjunkie backstage at this past Saturday’s FS1-televised event at Toyota Center in Houston. It’s not the first time Jackson has asked the UFC to honor its capitalistic instincts. After Punk, a former pro-wrestling champ, expressed confidence a return to the octagon would happen, Jackson spoke up to MMAjunkie Radio and reasoned he’s the best candidate for Punk (0-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), a bankable attraction whose lack of experience was brutally exposed by Mickey Gall (4-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) this past September at UFC 203
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Mike Jackson to CM Punk: ‘Let’s see who the real can is’ – MMA Junkie