Dan Hooker's Big Claims, The P4P Rankings Debate, and Does Volk Deserve Rematch?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After having some time to digest what transpired at UFC 284, Chael is here to discuss the following:

The ongoing pound-for-pound rankings debate and whether Alexander Volkanovski deserves to retain the No. 1 spot (00:49)
If Volkanovski should get another crack at Islam Makhachev for the lightweight title (8:48)
Why Chael believes Makhachev should fully embrace being a heel (15:23)
Dan Hooker's Twitter tirade about Makhachev and whether Hooker's claims of cheating hold any water (22:56)
Israel Adesanya coming to the defense of friend Francis Ngannou (28:52)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode
0:12.9	of you welcome guys, UFC 284 is over and done.
0:17.8	But that doesn't mean that I'm going to quit talking about it just yet it was one of
0:22.0	the best main events that we've seen in a meaningful period of time and coming up on
0:26.2	the day show.
0:27.2	I'm going to tell you whether I think Volkhenovsky and Michael Chev should rematch plus,
0:33.2	Dan Hooker has made some pretty hefty claims and Israel out of Sonya has spoken about
0:38.6	his friend Francis and Gato.
0:40.6	I'll get to those things and more but let's begin here.
0:49.0	We are T-18 hours in 18 hours, the rankings committee, the unnamed, unsolicited person
1:01.9	or group of people that produced one of the only things in writing that we actually accept.
1:11.0	Draft Kings will put out odds right?
1:13.4	You don't have to accept them.
1:15.4	You can go with the house or you can go against them just by example.
1:19.4	This guy will claim that he's the number one contender.
1:21.5	But you'll hear from this other crew, we accept nothing in this sport.
1:26.8	That's why we fight.
1:27.9	If we can all just agree who won through 10 is, we're going to have to set that up to
1:32.0	get out of every Saturday.
1:34.2	We literally will fight about every single thing in this sport except one.
1:37.2	Whatever the rankings committee says, I don't know why.
1:40.7	I have never disagreed with it.
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