Colby Covington Wants Islam Makhachev, Chael's Victory Lap, and the Coat That Saved Henry Cejudo's Career

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In an action-packed episode of the program, Chael discusses:

How Merab Dvalishvili stealing Sean O'Malley's jacket led to Henry Cejudo changing his mind about retirement (00:42)
Why Chael wants to give the benefit of the doubt to the "rat" in Belal Muhammad's camp who leaked information about his foot injury prior to UFC 288 (24:05)
Colby Covington's callout of Islam Makhachev and whether that fight makes sense for the welterweight division (32:13)
Rumors that we're close to booking Jamahal Hill vs. Jiri Prochazka for the light heavyweight title (43:42)
Why Chael is starting to believe we may never see Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler together in the Octagon (50:10)

Plus, thoughts from the Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz press conference, Paddy Pimblett accepts Matt Frevola's callout, and Chael gives props to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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0:00.0	One tap, did guys! Happy Friday! And thank you for joining another special episode
0:12.9	of your welcome. It has been a crazy week of fight news and coming up the heels of UFC
0:18.4	288. I want to talk on today's show about the call out by Frabola aimed at patty the
0:24.7	patty and whether or not patty accepted it plus Colby Cumminton has made quite the call out
0:30.3	himself and I'm also hearing rumors that were close to booking Jamal Hill in your ripro
0:35.6	osca. Lots to get into on today's show everybody let's begin here.
0:43.6	Aljo and Sihluto I haven't moved on I'm not ready to move on. There's a lot that happened there.
0:50.0	I mean let's start with this nobody in MMA and this is a little statement by me nobody that
0:57.3	I'm aware of that I can think of off the top of my head at least has thrown rounds away that's a
1:01.6	thing that's a thing in wrestling you will find places to eat up time maybe you're trying to catch
1:08.6	your breath maybe it's strategy maybe you've got all the points that you need you just got to run
1:12.0	the clock out but there are places where you're not trying to beat the guy but right now whether
1:19.7	it's for 30 seconds or for an entire round you're trying to stall the better part of a match away
1:25.4	I can't think of a time in MMA where that's happened as a matter of fact as a wrestler it's one of
1:30.0	the major distinctions in the sport of wrestling and not a fighting wrestling is so difficult six
1:38.9	minutes high school seven minutes college by example but a guy is just trying to score points on
1:45.6	no no matter how fatigued you get as bad as it's going to get as the guy is going to try to score
1:49.6	points on you and MMA he's trying to damage you say it's a 15 minute fight and you've won 14 minutes
1:56.8	you can't just sail in that last minute he's trying to damage you and I only bring it up because
2:04.8	Aljo gave away the fifth round it's a really big deal there was a judge that had given Aljo the
2:13.0	fifth round I mean you're always in a difficult spot when the athlete doesn't agree with you I'm
2:17.1	gonna leave it at that I don't want to give this judge a hard time but Aljo does not agree with
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