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You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

A Message for Slap Fighting, Luke Rockhold Is Back, and Betting the House on Conor McGregor

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Chael discusses:

  • Fuzziness in the light heavyweight division and whether UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira should move up a division to fight Jamahal Hill (10:18)
  • Luke Rockhold's release from the UFC and where he might land now that Rockhold wants to return to fighting (19:36)
  • Chael's issues with Rockhold and Francis Ngannou, and how the two former champions relate to U.S. President Joe Biden (25:42)
  • Coach John Kavanagh's guarantee that Conor McGregor will return in 2023 ... with one special caveat (38:49)
  • Why Chael vehemently disagrees with the MMA pound-for-pound rankings released by The Ringer yesterday (47:34)
  • Why the sport of slap fighting needs to stop pretending it's something that it's not (58:22)

And more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening guys? Happy Friday! And thank you for joining another special episode

0:12.8

of your welcome. Coming up on today's show. Our old friend Luke Rockold appears to be back.

0:19.2

But where's it going to land? I'm going to speculate on that later plus. I'm going to

0:23.7

get into how I feel about slap fighting and I'm also going to tell you what coach Kavanaugh

0:29.5

said about his pupil, Connor McGregor. Before we get to all of that, I want to play something

0:35.2

for you. It's a video of a new light heavyweight champion, Jamal Hill, responding to Yuri

0:41.8

Prohaska. Let's take a listen. Where you at though? Where you at though? By the way, that's

0:53.4

what she said. That's what she said! Alright, you guys know what that was, that was Jamal

1:01.8

Hill. That was Jamal Hill right there. Now he was in response to Prohaska. I thought Prohaska

1:07.7

did a great job. But to take you back to what this is, minutes, 15 and hour, five hours,

1:16.6

not long after Jamal became World Champion Prohaska, made a video and it was as simple as

1:22.2

taking his iPhone, holding it up, but he's outside. There's snow everywhere. He's got

1:28.6

a t-shirt on him. Just right there you've got my interest. Something's happening. He's

1:33.8

not in Mittens and has a scarf like you would think. There's a guy outside wearing a t-shirt

1:38.1

and a snow. You have my attention. And he simply says, I'm coming for you. And as he says

1:44.7

it, right, a director from Hollywood, Connor, to got this lucky, as he's telling him I'm

1:49.3

coming for you, snow is coming down and catches on the light hair of his beard. It was just

1:57.0

a great shot. As simple as it was, it was a great shot coming for you. We all get that.

2:03.7

And there was also at least for me, something interesting about the champion who never

2:09.2

lost, putting himself in the position of the hungry contender. That was not a position

2:16.1

that Yuri Prohaska had to do. And the Yuri Prohaska, I mean, this one really is interesting,

2:23.0

guys. Somebody owes an explanation here and it could just be as simple as human air.

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