Mike Jackson is the official photographer for Legacy FC. And it's in that capacity that he thought he'd be encountering Mickey Gall.

When Jackson first got a call from Legacy matchmaker Collin Cantrell recently, he was really confused. Cantrell was talking about Gall and Legacy and a fight in early February. Jackson wasn't really sure where he fit in.

"In my head I'm thinking, 'Y'all gonna fly me to Minnesota to come take pictures of Mickey Gall?'" Jackson said.

No, Cantrell explained to Jackson. We want you to fight Gall, the matchmaker told him.

"I was like, 'Fight who?'" Jackson said. "He's like, 'If you fight Mickey Gall, you get CM Punk.' That's how they're hyping this up to me. I was like, 'This makes no sense. What are you talking about?'"

Pardon Jackson if he was a little confused. "The Truth" has exactly one bout of MMA experience -- an amateur fight in 2012. He's fought as a pro boxer and kickboxer, but sparingly. He's been out of training the last few months due to an injury and school, just completing his degree from the University of Houston.

Jackson is many things in MMA. He's a photographer, a videographer, an interviewer and blogger. He's been credentialed at two UFC events and a handful of others like Strikeforce and Invicta. Jackson, who has a successful website (mikethetruth.com), considers himself an MMA personality. But he's really not an MMA fighter, per say.

Check out the new #FightersTalk with @supersagenorthcutt at MikeTheTruth.com. We talk about his @ufc debut at #UFC192. A photo posted by Mike Jackson (@thetruthjackson) on Sep 8, 2015 at 2:03pm PDT

That will all change Saturday when he'll get the chance to fight at the highest level of the sport. Jackson will indeed fight Gall at UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson on Feb. 6 in Las Vegas. The bout will air on UFC Fight Pass and if Gall wins he will face CM Punk later this year.

Jackson, 30, is still really not sure where or how he fits in.

"To me, this is a big troll," Jackson said. "This is a massive troll by everyone involved here."

"You have CM Punk, who has no MMA experience, fighting. You got this kid Mickey Gall, who literally wins one fight -- he's fighting in some small town in Jersey that Dana White happened to be at and was like, 'I want to fight CM Punk.' And he gets signed by the UFC. And then you got me. All my experience is in boxing and kickboxing. Now I'm in the UFC. It's like, 'What the f*ck is going on here?'"

Gall won his debut by first-round submission for a Philadelphia promotion called Dead Serious MMA in November. White was in attendance at the card for his Fight Pass show, "Lookin' For a Fight." Knowing that, Gall called out CM Punk. The UFC president dug it and signed him.

'This is a massive troll by everyone involved here' - Mike Jackson

The whole situation is clever marketing of both Fight Pass and CM Punk's eventual debut. Gall is someone the UFC believes it can promote and Punk, the former WWE headliner, wouldn't be allowed to fight anyone with significant pro MMA experience since he's never fought previously.

Jackson is a bit of an odd man out, but he wants to make the most of this chance. White has said Gall will get the fight against Punk if he wins, but Jackson will not fight Punk if he is the winner. Jackson is hoping to change White's mind. He's not all that impressed with Gall's marketability nor his recent trash talk against CM Punk.

"I haven't seen any of his personality," Jackson said. "Anybody can do that. You can go find a bum on the street, 'Hey call out somebody' and they'll do it. But for me, having a personality is someone who has charisma like myself who can speak in front of people, who's witty and who can sell tickets.

"It was just right place, right time [for Gall]. But as far as sell a fight, this kid, he's not gonna be able to do that. Let's say he does win. He beats Mike Jackson. And now he's fighting CM Punk. There's gonna be CM Punk vs. Mickey Gall -- that's it. On the flip side, you have me who's a personality, who has no recognition outside my hometown."

Jackson has been training in MMA since 2008 and started crossing over into the media side of things in 2010 when he filmed former Power Ranger actor Jason David Frank's MMA debut. That YouTube video has amassed more than 800,000 views. Jackson said people still comment on it to this day.

The viral success of that video got him started with video blogging and then interviewing. Eventually, he branched into photography. He was credentialed for UFC 166 and UFC 192 in his hometown of Houston. Jackson has even interviewed White.

Jackson competed for Legacy Kickboxing last year and won via knockout. He's 2-0 as a pro boxer with a pair of knockouts. Jackson is also a former Golden Gloves champion boxer, is a teammate of UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis and shares a coach, Bob Perez, with Sage Northcutt.

Jackson has some striking chops and was going to make it a point to fight twice this year in MMA. Of course, he was imagining it would be for Legacy.

"Literally a week after I got back in the gym, they were like, 'Hey, do you want to fight in the UFC?'" Jackson said. "I was like, 'What the f*ck?'"

That's where he'll be this weekend, on the preliminary portion of a pay-per-view card headlined by a heavyweight championship bout between champion Fabricio Werdum and Cain Velasquez.

"I can't turn this f*cking opportunity of a lifetime," Jackson said. "How many people with no fights have fought in the UFC? I was like, 'OK, let's do it.'"

He'll be sure to bring his camera.