If Mickey Gall can walk to the octagon to “Mickey,” then Mike Jackson can fight Phil “CM Punk” Brooks.

That’s the way Jackson is selling a fight with Punk (0-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), several weeks after the former WWE wrestler got blown out of the water by Gall (3-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) at UFC 203.

Seven months after his lopsided loss to Gall in his professional MMA debut, Jackson, a man whose unusual journey to the UFC thrust him into the spotlight, wants the promotion to put him back in the octagon with the former WWE champ.

“I’ve gotten wind that Punk wants to get another fight, and it only makes sense,” Jackson (0-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) told MMAjunkie Radio.

It’s not exactly breaking news Punk wants to continue his UFC career. Moments after getting tapped by Gall inside one round at the Sept. 10 pay-per-view event at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, he made it clear he wants to keep fighting. But the question is whether UFC officials will let him.

UFC President Dana White has indicated he isn’t interested in promoting Punk after the one-sided beatdown. But the way Jackson sees it, that’s just ignoring the reality of the situation: Good fighter or not, Punk is great for business.

“It’s about making money,” said Jackson, who also writes about and photographs MMA for mikethetruth.com. “I’m a businessman, so I understand the logistics of all of this. As a fight fan, I remember when I heard about (Punk fighting in MMA). I was like, ‘No, no one wants to see that.’ But people are going to tune in for the spectacle of it.”

And if they’re going to tune in, Jackson reasons, they might as well put on a fight that’s a little bit more competitive. That’s where he comes in.

“The experience is the same,” Jackson said. “We both have a loss to Mickey Gall. He can’t go in there and fight dudes with a lot of experience, as opposed to bringing in someone else with very limited MMA experience. It only makes sense to put us both in there.

“This is a fight fans wanted to see even prior to me fighting Mickey Gall because neither one of us had any fights.”

Unfortunately for Jackson, it turned out he wasn’t prepared enough to get past Gall. So whatever chance he initially had to fight Punk, he missed it, even though he was never promised the opportunity.

But if fans were able to override UFC White’s no-go of Gall’s walkout music, Jackson thinks they have the power to speak up and change that.

“So whatever way makes the most money for everyone involved – whether it’s the UFC, or Punk, or myself,” he said.

If he got in the cage with Punk, Jackson said he would show a lot more than he did against Gall – namely, the striking skills he’s accumulated from boxing and kickboxing bouts.

“I like predicting my knockouts,” he said. “I predicted each (boxing and kickboxing) fight in each round. If I fight CM Punk, I’m knocking him out in the second round.

“I want him to understand that this is a real thing. This isn’t scripted, and your life is on the line. I want him to understand that by me punching him in the face and kicking him and elbowing him repeatedly that, you need to stop.”

Some fans, of course, have already demanded just that. The reality of putting a hobbyist on the world’s biggest stage for MMA was as many expected it to be – a mockery of the sport. Jackson admits he wasn’t at all surprised what happened when Punk fought Gall.

But now, he’s urging them to make the fight they should have in the first place.

Check out the video above to hear Jackson pitch a bout with Punk.

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