Charles Oliveira's Doubters, Paddy Pimblett Speculation, and MMA DRAMA!
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
After a rare off weekend for the UFC, Chael discusses:
- If people are right to doubt Charles Oliveira so much heading into his UFC 280 title fight against Islam Makhachev (00:42)
- Whether any prominent UFC lightweights will step up to fight Paddy Pimblett at UFC 282 (13:33)
- How a matchup between Khamzat Chimaev and Bo Nickal might turn out (22:04)
- Some MMA manager-on-manager drama (29:14)
- Why aren't any welterweights not named Kamaru Usman trying to fight Leon Edwards for the title next year (42:09)?
Plus, some thoughts on ONE Championship (51:00).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys, Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode |
| 0:12.8 | of your welcome. |
| 0:13.8 | The UFC was off this past week but we still got a lot to talk about on today's show as |
| 0:19.2 | we continue to count down the days to UFC 280 coming up on the program. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm going to discuss more on the match between Charles Oliver and Islam Makalchiv plus I'll |
| 0:30.5 | dive deep into bone nickels potential and also some major drama that's going down in the |
| 0:36.4 | MMA world. |
| 0:37.4 | Now before we get to all that, let's begin here. |
| 0:42.5 | Anthony Smith did a piece and I thoroughly enjoyed it but he was talking about Islam |
| 0:48.8 | versus Oliver. |
| 0:50.5 | And Anthony said something that I found myself saying before and what he said was and he |
| 0:55.1 | applied it to Charles Oliver in this case but he said I'm not going against him anymore. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm done doubting him, I've done underestimating him, I've done picking against him and then |
| 1:06.4 | he went on to compliment Charles saying that Charles has better stand up than Islam, saying |
| 1:12.7 | that Charles is comfortable everywhere including the submission game that he doesn't have to |
| 1:17.2 | worry being underneath Islam. |
| 1:22.4 | Is that true? |
| 1:24.1 | Like I don't find myself particularly publicly arguing with Lionheart Farrah Fah but is |
| 1:30.0 | that true? |
| 1:31.0 | I mean here let me give you a statistic guys. |
| 1:33.1 | People lie. |
| 1:35.5 | Your mind lies to your mind will play tricks on you. |
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