5 Mistakes that CM Punk made in the UFC

#5 The Gym he trained at

Din Thomas, Tyron Woodley, Ben Askren, Anthony Pettis and CM Punk at Roufusport

Don’t get me wrong here. Duke Roufus is a world class coach, and Roufusport is a gym that is certainly capable of producing UFC level fighters.

However it is telling that even their poster boy, former UFC Lightweight Champion Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis, sought the services of Izzy Martinez of Jackson-Wink academy to train his wrestling, after getting ‘found out’ in that deparment against both Rafael Dos Anjos and Eddie Alvarez.

And if indeed that was a percerived weakness prevalent in the camp, the ease with which Gall shot on CM Punk and took him down did nothing to dispell that notion.

In hindsight, perhaps seeking the services of another gym, something like Kings MMA, Jackson-Wink or American Kickboxing Academy, would have served CM Punk better in ironing out all aspects of his MMA game.

Being the superstar that he is, no gym would have turned him down given the mainstream attention he was bound to draw onto them anyway.