Congrats Francis Ngannou, But There's One Problem. Plus, We Have a War Approaching and Bo Nickal ... Listen Up!
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this loaded Friday episode, Chael discusses the following:
- Francis Ngannou's huge win in securing a boxing fight with Tyson Fury, but also why Chael doesn't feel this fight is a real sporting event (00:56)
- Why Fury should be ashamed of himself for taking this fight (19:04)
- Why Chael believes Israel Adesanya vs. Dricus Du Plessis could be one of the best fights of the year (39:03)
- Chael's advice to rising superstar Bo Nickal (58:01)
- Alexander Volkanovski's dismissing of top featherweight contender Ilia Topuria (1:05:28)
Plus, more Jon Jones retirement rumors and are you still watching "The Ultimate Fighter"?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You can feel the power of this fight. You can feel the magnitude. |
| 0:06.2 | And we don't even have a bout agreement yet. We don't even have an announcement yet. |
| 0:18.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Friday! And thank you for joining. |
| 0:21.9 | Another special episode of you. Welcome. Well, there's all sorts of store lines |
| 0:26.2 | happening in combat sports right now guys. We have a massive rivalry unfolding between |
| 0:31.1 | Duplisys and Otisanya. Plus, Volkanovsky is dismissing Mr. Hand sanitizer and John Jones |
| 0:38.8 | is talking about retirement once again. I'm going to get to all of that in more on today's show, |
| 0:43.3 | but it's only fitting to begin the program with the story of the week and one of the biggest stories |
| 0:50.7 | of 2023. Hate! Hate, hate, hate, hate! I'm a hater! |
| 1:00.1 | Guys, I watched Dave Chappelle remember that he used to do a piece on this. Hate, hate, hate, hate. |
| 1:04.0 | It's like he did like this player haters award and it was his whole segment of the show if you were a fan. |
| 1:10.4 | I thought it was a joke until today and now I realize that I am one. So, you know, maybe |
| 1:15.1 | Mr. Pell is on to something all those years ago because we got fury and we got in Gano. |
| 1:24.0 | And I'm not happy about it. Why not? Well, that's a weird, that's a very weird. |
| 1:29.6 | Like that's a character flaw within me. I don't want that to be in me, but it's true. I'm not |
| 1:34.8 | happy about it for a number of reasons. And the only thing I should be over here saying |
| 1:42.3 | is good job Francis. Congratulations, right? That's what I should be saying. That's the honorable thing |
| 1:53.6 | to say. But it's just a weird position for a number of reasons that I fully admit I don't |
| 2:06.5 | think anyone's going to care about. I think it's just me. Take from a PR perspective the right |
| 2:13.5 | thing to do if your chale is to say congratulations. Good luck with your fight and move on with my day. |
| 2:23.9 | But it's difficult for me because there are codes of honor. And there's a way that |
| 2:36.7 | business must be done for our sport, which I know people say that it's mainstream and that the |
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