Back in December, Sage Northcutt took on C.M. Punk killer Mickey Gall at UFC on Fox 22. The fight was contentious, but mostly for the talking inside the octagon.
At one point in the bout, Northcutt knocked his opponent down and began talking to the downed Gall. It has been speculated that Northcutt was trash talking in an epic mid-fight tirade to Gall. Now, it would appear that those rumors can be put to rest. In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, Northcutt cleared up what happened during the bout.
“So when I hit him and knocked him down, I was just telling him — I wasn’t really talking trash, I wouldn’t call it trash talking. I was just talking to him. I was like, ‘come on, get up, get up.’ I was telling him to get up because I wanted to fight standing up. Another one was I hit him, I know I hurt him, so I was just like, ‘that hurt, didn’t it?’ So I was just kind of talking to him.”
