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I got myself involved in a heavy Twitter exchange this week - and it could lead to a real business opportunity down the line.

This former pro wrestling guy, CM Punk, posted a video of himself in training on Tuesday, preparing for his UFC debut.

But he’s kind of the laughing stock of the UFC. He’s gone from wrestling, with it’s scripted theatrics, into MMA, a legitimate, highly-skilled sport.

In fairness he’s trained at a really good gym for the last year but no one makes their MMA debut in the UFC - you slowly build yourself up, work your way through the ranks.

It’s a weird situation but I can understand from a business perspective why the UFC are going with it.

He’s a very famous WWE figure in the States and has already brought a lot of attention to the business.

I’ve no major objection to him, even if a stuntman entering this highly-skilled sport is the equivalent of me wanting to become a pro footballer and joining Man United.

So I was half slagging myself off when I Tweeted a pic of him hitting the pads and commented that he makes me look like Ali.

(Image: Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Fact is, people haven’t been too impressed with that part of my game either, so it was a little dig at me as well.

I didn’t tag him on the Twitter post but he has 2.3m followers, and within minutes he replied – and we spent the night dishing abuse back and forth. I had great fun with it.

My Twitter feed blew up. A lot of MMA fans said they’d like to see us fight.

While WWE fans said they wanted the same thing, it’s a bit delusional on their part - they somehow think it would be a competitive fight!

A hell of a lot of UFC fighters have been calling him out, trying to organise a fight with him because there’s a lot of bucks in it given he’s such high a profile draw.

He’s ignored them all, so the fact he got onto me makes me think he might fancy himself against me, which is quite funny in truth.

I’d love it. It would be a bit of fun. He’ll probably be humiliated on his debut but the UFC will continue to use him to attract more supporters.

I have my own fight in October to prepare for but if something comes of this fight down the line, I’ll jump at it.

(Image: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Conor McGregor

It's brilliant Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo will finally fight in Vegas in December.

Hopefully it happens this time. It was a bit unfortunate that the UFC weren’t able to organise it for Dallas but that sounded like it was all a bit too rushed, so it was no surprise to hear Vegas is the venue.

It’ll be another historic night but my only concern is Aldo making it. The circumstances surrounding him pulling out of the original fight seemed very fishy.

He’d be foolish not to turn up considering the Brazilian will make more money than he’s done throughout his career.

He can retire after this if he wants. He’s already spoken about retiring - if that’s the way he’s thinking, that’s not good for his prospects.

It’s a fight that will break all records because there’s such a big rivalry between them now.