During an Instagram Q&A with Daniel Bryan and his wife, Brie Bella, Bryan was asked whether he could beat former wrestler CM Punk's UFC 225 adversary, Mike Jackson.

“Did they just ask me if I could beat Mike Jackson in a fight? The answer... I could beat him on the ground, for sure. I think,” Bryan said. Brie added, "you could definitely beat him."

Jackson, who beat Punk at UFC 225 last Saturday, earning a unanimous decision victory with judges scoring the fight 30-26, quickly replied on Twitter, "Hey, @WWEDanielBryan, don't let your mouth write a check your a$$ can't cash. You don't want to get potatoed like your man did at #UFC225."

In response, Bryan simply tweeted, “Interesting.”

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Jackson’s performance at UFC, however, didn’t go over well with UFC President Dana White who barred him from competing against Artem Lobov, The Russian Hammer, who hasn’t won a UFC fight since 2016.

“Artem might kill him,” White told reporters. “That might be the first death in the UFC. I think that’s a bad fight for Mike Jackson and I think Mike Jackson needs to go back to being a reporter or doing whatever the hell he did before he goofed around [on Saturday night].”

Jackson, however, denies showboating or disrespecting Punk. “It was one of these things where I was confused because all I kept hearing about was that I was taunting him and showboating. That’s not my character, that’s not my style. Then I hear what Dana White was saying, he’s running his mouth. Look, I know Dana is emotional, he’s like a little girl sometimes and he gets in his feelings. But, when you have a platform like that, you need to take a step back. I just didn’t understand it.”

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He also believes that White underestimates how tough Punk is and defends his approach towards the fight. “What I think it is, it was sort of my style, it was a little bit different. I was going out there to get the first round knockout. And I told people beforehand, CM Punk, he’s a tough cat. I landed some solid shots, I rocked him. I landed some solid elbows and I hurt him but he never went to the ground.”

Adding, “For me, I am not going to run in and try to get a finish on someone, get caught with something silly and then I’m a meme forever in MMA. I played the smart role and I kept my distance. After the first round, he didn’t go down so I was like, well, I didn’t get the first-round knockout. Plan B was just to beat him up. And I told everybody before hand that alI wanted to do was to beat him up nice enough where he doesn’t want to do this anymore. I never wanted to hurt the guy.”

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Some fans view the prospect of a Jackson-Bryan match-up as absurd since Bryan has never competed in an unscripted environment. Though he has Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts training, Bryan is not regarded by UFC fans as a legitimate fighter. In fact Punk, who retired from wrestling in 2014, has only fought two UFC bouts, losing both times, which some think should be a teachable moment for Bryan.