CANCEL Whittaker vs. Du Plessis, Davis vs. Garcia Payouts, and Will Conor McGregor EVER Fight Again?

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Chael Sonnen

Comedy, Sports, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On today's episode, Chael discusses: Reported earnings from last weekend's massive boxing showdown between Gervonta "Tank" Davis and Ryan Garcia (00:45) Max Holloway's interested in fighting Conor McGregor, but Chael isn't convinced we'll see McGregor ever step into the Octagon again (11:17) Why Chael thinks the UFC messed up in booking a fight between Robert Whittaker and Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 290 (24:55) And more! Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify and use my code chael for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com* Check out Shopify and use my code chael for a great deal: https://www.shopify.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.5	What's happening, guys? Happy Friday. And thank you for joining another special episode
1:12.9	of your welcome. Guys, there's so many storylines going on in combat sports world and on
1:18.4	today's show. I'm gonna get to as many of them as I can. I'm still stuck on Israel
1:24.1	Adasani's next opponent because I'm not convinced it's the winner of Whitaker
1:28.5	versus DuPlese's, plus Max Holloway wants a crack at Connor McGregor, but I'm not convinced that
1:34.9	Connor's even going to fight again. More and all that a little bit later. You know what? Let's
1:40.5	begin with this. It doesn't matter. I mean, in all fairness, it does not matter. What a guy made to fight. Now, I'm talking about Tank versus Garcia. It doesn't matter. But I do find it interesting. You know, they used to leak this. We would get this all the time. I shouldn't call it a leak. They used to report this every Monday. We'd have a big fight. And it was always either UFC or Bellator that whoever looked into this didn't do it for everybody. But there's a UFC or Bellator event. Come Monday, we, the audience, would see what the fighters got paid. It goes through the commission, which is on taxpayer money, which means that information is public.
2:17.9	It would just tell us what the show was, what the win was.
2:22.7	And it was interesting to know people's business, right?
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