{"id":16777,"date":"2015-01-28T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=16777"},"modified":"2015-01-28T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T00:48:20","slug":"ufc-addresses-cm-punks-debut-and-if-they-will-go-outside-of-ufc-for-his-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/ufc-addresses-cm-punks-debut-and-if-they-will-go-outside-of-ufc-for-his-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Addresses CM Punk&#8217;s Debut And If They Will Go Outside Of UFC For His Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ESPN<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta recently spoke with ESPN.com and commented on CM Punk&#8217;s debut in The Octagon<\/p>\n<p>Fertitta promised Punk&#8217;s UFC debut will come against someone &#8220;competitive&#8221; and said it will probably be a pay-per-view co-main event.<\/p>\n<p>Fertitta said they will most likely go outside of the promotion for Punk&#8217;s first opponent but it&#8217;s going to be left up to UFC matchmaker Joe Silva. Fertitta said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m going to defer to Joe Silva. We&#8217;ll let him bring two to three names to the table and we&#8217;ll figure it out from there. But I guarantee you it will be a competitive guy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fertitta commented on the type of opponent he sees for Punk&#8217;s first fight:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it has to be somebody with some level of credentials. It&#8217;s not just going to be some guy off the street. It&#8217;s going to be somebody who is a professional mixed martial artist &#8212; certainly somebody who MMA media will recognize and know.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC CEO Addresses CM Punk&#8217;s Debut And If The Company Will Go Outside Of UFC For His Opponent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[90,64],"class_list":["post-16777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cm-punk","tag-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16778,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions\/16778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}