Gall: I like Sage Northcutt with an edge

Sage Northcutt is profoundly affable in a sport of gleeful trash talkers. Before their fight on Saturday night at UFC on FOX 22, Northcutt declined to bark back at Mickey Gall, or accept his Loser Shaves Head challenge.

However, Northcutt’s inner Jersey apparently came out in the middle of the fight. But in a post-fight interview, Gall said he thought it was counter productive.

You saw how the fight went down, said Gall, as transcribed by MMAjunkie. I think it helped me.

Gall described the back and forth conversation between two. When Gall’s eye began to bleed, Northcutt gleefully pointed it out.

He was like, ‘Ooh, that one is good,’ said Gall.

However, Gall said the eye got cut in training before the Punk fight, and needed 21 stitches. This time it was only eight.

At another point, Gall was on the mat with Northcutt standing over him menacingly, kicking at his legs.

He said, ‘Get up, get up,’ and I was like, ‘No, why don’t you come down – I thought your jiu-jitsu is better than mine,’ Gall said. Because he said that in the [preview] show.

And then I got up and I’m like, ‘What are you tired?’ And he said, ‘I never get tired.’ I gotta say, I like Sage with an edge.

Gall called out CM Punk, got the fight, and won. Then he called out Sage Northcutt, got the fight, and won. This time he called out Dan Hardy. Time will tell if it works, but there is a pattern forming.

And at least Sage didn’t accept the bet.