It’s been only a few days since the debacle that was CM Punk‘s debut in the UFC Octagon. Since then it’s been disclosed that Phil “CM Punk” Brooks earner 500.000$ dollars for his measly one round loss.

By comparison this is many many times over what Conor McGregor or Ronda Rousey made for their respective debuts. But in terms of pay-per-views that big of a salary would amount to about 17.000 buys. In a tweet by journalist Marc Raimondi (source: Bloody Elbow), Punk’s debut had garnered the most pay-per-view buys without big names. It was also the biggest one since UFC 182 in January 2015, headlined by light heavyweights Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier.

Still, Joe Rogan was livid about the placing of the CM Punk debut on the card and even more so with his amateur performance. Just listen to what he had to say about the fight that was Mickey Gall vs CM Punk:

White Admits CM Punk should probably not be in any more UFC fights going forward:

“He probably shouldn’t have his next fight in the UFC. Just like I said with Brock, having your first fight in the UFC is tough and you saw tonight, even if it’s against a guy who is 2-0. This is a tough place to learn.”

And while many agree that CM Punk doesn’t belong in the octagon the question now is what to do with Mickey Gall. Gall called out Sage Northcutt after his victory but it’s a huge question mark if he could even hang with him given that he was the pick to face CM Punk, a victory for which he made 33 times less money – 30,000$.

Speaking of Sage Northcutt check out this insane snap from earlier yesterday:

While many would say that Rogan’s brazen commentary was completely accurate and cutting to the core of things, it rubbed Ariel Helwani the wrong way as evidenced by his comments on The MMA Hour:

“The rolling of the eyes, the comments, the saying like ‘this is a crazy decision’, even the way he was speaking on the way to the cage, I dunno, I thought that that was a big misstep.

“It was change-the-channel discourse that he was putting out there; to me it was disrespectful to the guy who was at the arena getting ready to fight.”

But is it so? How welcome is a discourse where the ever expanding base shuns someone of Demian Maia’s stature only because he isn’t doing somersaults and welcomes a dramatic performer?