Colby Covington's Last Chance and UFC 296 Predictions That Will SHOCK You!
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A Thursday episode? That's right folks; consider it an early Christmas present from Uncle Chael. Here's what's coming up in this UFC 296 preview episode:
- Ian Garry's social media video addressing the haters (00:00)**
- Why Saturday night could be Colby Covington's final UFC fight (09:25)
- Would Joe Rogan have beaten Wesley Snipes? (15:07)
- My breakdown of Josh Emmett vs. Bryce Mitchell (24:41)
- Official prediction: Shavkat Rakhmonov vs. Wonderboy Thompson (31:48)
- Official prediction: Vicente Luque vs. Ian Garry (37:53)
- Official prediction: Leon Edwards vs. Colby Covington (44:15)
And don't forget! I'll be hosting the World MMA Awards Friday night at 10 p.m. ET over on ESPN. Tune in.
**This episode was recorded before I broke the news that Ian Garry is out of his UFC 296 fight.
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| 0:00.0 | Things are in his head. He said it himself. He said, I'm not motivated. I'm pissed off. Well, is that good? I mean, if you change one thing, you can expect a different outcome. |
| 0:08.0 | If you put peanut butter in the cookies instead of chocolate chips, just that one change, but we're not gonna call them chocolate |
| 0:13.3 | chip cookies and you now have something very different. What's happening guys? Happy Thursday and thank you for joining another special |
| 0:28.2 | episode of your welcome guys. I'm recording the podcast today because I'm |
| 0:31.7 | out in Vegas for the fight so I figured I'm going to give you all a little Christmas gift by getting this UFC |
| 0:37.5 | 296 preview out a day early. You're welcome for that by the way and coming up I'm going to give you a |
| 0:44.1 | whole bunch of official predictions but before that I want to begin with a |
| 0:48.0 | story that's been dominating the headlines the past few weeks. |
| 1:00.0 | Dean Gary put out a little promo piece. I thought it was very well done. |
| 1:01.0 | I thought he represented himself very well. |
| 1:03.4 | I thought that he showed a strength. |
| 1:06.7 | There's gonna be a very hard time getting Ian off this topic, |
| 1:12.4 | having that be what surround him like it's just one of the things with an athlete where you live in this this very bizarre bubble |
| 1:20.0 | But the average person on the street even somebody that might know who Ian Gary is or understand what the welterweight division stands for me in 170 pounds or understand the significance of being in the top 10 or being a main cart fighter being undefeated like a person that might understand all those things |
| 1:34.1 | that can have the foggiest idea what a wag is or that there's a book on Amazon |
| 1:38.4 | and that's just the reality but you don't know that when you're Ian right |
| 1:41.1 | you're so you're so close to it and your social |
| 1:42.8 | media it's it becomes your world it's very hard to stand back it's a massive |
| 1:48.1 | mental skill and exercise it will only come with time. |
| 1:52.8 | So Ian did a very good job within this piece |
| 1:58.6 | to be strong and to demonstrate a strength. |
| 2:05.0 | There is something that I continually do find interesting, maybe as far as to say fascinating, |
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