Not really done any research into the fights so far, probably going to bin off betting on the Punk fight given the odds on Gall, although saying that depending on how Punk looks at weigh ins I might actually have a flier bet on him if the odds hit +400 and he looks alright. I just got done watching that Evolution of Punk thing and he looked a bit rubbish but most of the footage was from like 14 months ago. Debut fight so he's deserving of being an underdog but training out of a solid gym, a lot of time spent with solid fighters like Pettis, Askren, Koch and Woodley. It's a short time to be training but from the sounds of things he's taking it serious and been training full time (2-3 sessions a day). I don't think the pressure of being on the main card will get to him given his WWE stuff but dunno if you can say the same for Gall with that. He's not really that experienced himself; 2-0 and though he looked good in his last fight, it was the 2nd prelim fight on a fight night card. So much spotlight on this fight and at 24 he's young. He could thrive under the pressure and turn out to be a future contender or something, but for all of the talk about how CM Punk has never fought before, he has coped with being in the spotlight for years as one of the biggest stars in the WWE. So many question marks over his ability to fight but similarly I think there's a lot of questions over how Gall will cope being extremely young in his career himself, forced into the spotlight and fighting in front of a crowd of probably 15k+ people. Not just that, but the added pressure of being a huge favourite in that scenario where everyone is expecting him to crush CM Punk in a minute or so. Given that, the expectation is he'll come out mad aggressive and look to live up to that but what if he doesn't manage to put Punk away straight away? There's potential for him to gas himself out going for the early finish if he doesn't get it, plus the potential for him to crumble under the weight of expectation and such a jump in terms of a couple of hundred people watching him fight to 100x that.
Not even sure I will bet on Punk, but at those odds and so many unknowns no way can I bet on a 2-0 guy as such a huge favourite.
In terms of other fights, I'll probably look at Lentz ITD and Werdum + Tavares SU. I'll have to go through the thread tomorrow to see if anyone has talked the CB Dollaway fight.
if only I was confident in Conor vs Nate so I could've gone at him again.....
