Northcutt responds to Gall’s Loser Shaves Head challenge

Mickey Gall took out former WWE champion CM Punk in his second UFC fight, and has borrowed an old pro wrestling gimmick for his third. Gall wants UFC on FOX 22 opponent Sage Northcutt to accept a Loser Shaves Head match. The idea has been out there for weeks, and Northcutt finally responded.

That’s pretty funny,” said Sage to Damon Martin for FOX Sports. “I think he’s actually just trying to get some attention. Maybe he should go ahead and shave his head now to get some attention.

I really take it as a compliment. If they’re calling me out that tells me something and that’s nice of them to be calling me out.”

The fight against CM Punk, he fought the CM Punk who came from the WWE and had no MMA fights. Same thing as before when he fought in the UFC, the person he fought had never had an MMA fight. What I saw was, it was very hard to tell anything from the fights because he fought two guys who never had a fight before.”

I think everybody expected just what happened for CM Punk and Mickey Gall, and CM Punk – it takes a lot of guts for him or for anybody to step into the Octagon to fight.

Gall is known for his grappling excellence but says he is eager to show off his stand-up skills vs. Northcutt. Sage is not impressed and counters that he, in fact, is looking forward to testing Gall on the ground.

I do not think that’s true,” said Sage. “I believe he’s going to be shooting for the shot to try and take me down. I have great wrestling as well so I might just take him down and ground and pound him.”

I’ve had four knockouts and three submissions out of eight fights. I know I have great grappling myself and I know how I do with submissions. The great thing is it’s mixed martial arts. So I’m prepared and I’m ready to go out there and get the victory.