but I'm guessing Tokido was where Punk was at last night in terms of either letting or making the pressure and whole big stage environment get into his head. On more than one occasion the commentators mentioned that Tokido started taking up either yoga or meditation to calm himself down. In addition to that, he was taking deliberate deep breaths after each round, win or loss.

Not saying Punk is going to have to take up Bikram Yoga or anything like that, but hopefully he uses this experience and the anguish he's is feeling and/or felt last night to mentally make himself stronger when the lights are flashing brighter. He was visibly nervous at the first set on Sunday night against the Zangief player; it's pretty remarkable he was able to get to the Grand Finals considering his nerves were probably shot all of Sunday night.