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UFC 203 Aftermath: CM Punk and lessons for new UFC ownership

"This is what happens when a brown belt rolls with a white belt."

The matchup between CM Punk and Mickey Gall was less than a minute old when Joe Rogan decided he couldn't go along with the hype anymore.

You could practically feel the longtime UFC color commentator gritting his teeth as he forced his way through the last-minute hype Saturday night leading up to the UFC 203 pay-per-view broadcast from Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena. But once the fight started, and Gall shot for a double-leg and began to pick Punk apart, there was no use pretending anymore.