Sage Northcutt says Mickey Gall has been 'fighting someone's dad'

There aren’t too many fighters who are as nice as Sage Northcutt. He’s usually complimentary to everyone and rarely projects a semblance of anger or annoyance. But when Mickey Gall called him out shortly after defeating CM Punk at UFC 203, the 20-year-old finally showed a few cracks in his nice guy façade.

Gall made fun of Northcutt’s spiky hair and called the young MMA prodigy “corny” and was more than happy to fight him next. Northcutt told “The MMA Hour” that he watched Gall’s expletive-laced rant and wasn’t impressed at all by Gall’s words or his performance.

“I think just him going in and fighting two guys that had no fights — I think they were both close to 40 years old, too — it’s almost like fighting someone’s dad that only trained very little for a fight,” Northcutt said. “It was definitely interesting if you think of it that way.”

For what it’s worth, Mike Jackson is only 31 while CM Punk is 37. Neither had much, if any, MMA experience heading into their fight with Gall. Northcutt said he expected Gall to defeat Punk but he didn’t anticipate the 24-year-old making fun of him the way he did.

“He’s talking about my hair — he wants to punch the spikes out of my hair — and looking at that from his fights that I’ve seen and looking at his pictures, his hair kind of looks like mine,” Northcutt said. “It just doesn’t have the hair gel in it, it doesn’t look like. I’m thinking that maybe he should get some hair gel and style it or something.”

It’s obvious that “Super Sage” isn’t one who enjoys trash talk, but he simply wasn’t going to let Gall’s words slide. And if Gall wants to face him, Northcutt said the door is open for the two to fight in December once he heals up from a staph infection.

“All I could say is that I believe I have better grappling than him and better stand up,” Northcutt said. “If I go out there, I can take the fight wherever I want. If I want to go out there and stand up with him and knock him out, I believe I can do that. If I want to take him down and submit him, I believe I can do that also.”