Dana White’s “Rabbit up His Sleeve” for UFC 300, Jorge Masvidal’s Insincere Retirement, and Why I’m Not Sure McGregor vs. Chandler Will Happen!
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Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
I'm all fired up on today's show everybody. Here's what to expect*:
- Why you shouldn't believe Conor McGregor's announcement video (00:00)
- Whether Michael Chandler deserves applause for being the most patient man in MMA (09:20)
- Why the UFC MUST convince Islam Makhachev to move up to welterweight (15:34)
- A page that Ian Garry is borrowing out of Jeffrey Epstein's book. Yes, you read that right (22:51)
- Jorge Masvidal's "unretirement" and the interesting position he finds himself in now (29:24)
- Ariel Helwani's report that the UFC has mysterious plans for UFC 300. What could they be? (40:04)
- The U.S. Supreme Court, presidential candidate Nikki Haley, and how far is too far in fight promotion? (47:06)
*All segment time codes are approximate.
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| 0:46.2 | episode if you're welcome. You know I got a lot to talk about today. First off, |
| 0:49.2 | George Mosvall apparently has unretired. I also got some UFC 300 news to report and I want to |
| 0:56.5 | talk about some developments in the making of Connor McGregor versus Michael Chandler. |
| 1:01.9 | I wish that fight would just happen and be over. That's a whole |
| 1:04.8 | another story guys. We got all sorts of stuff to get to today. Let's begin here. So Connor McGregor called his comeback, the greatest comeback in combat sports history. |
| 1:22.0 | That's interesting, right? It's not like we need to hold him |
| 1:24.0 | to something but what if we were trying what if I was really to try to take him at his |
| 1:29.0 | word and then deduce how serious those words are. |
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| 1:51.2 | If you come to me and you ask me will this be the greatest comeback in sports history, |
| 1:55.6 | what do you mean by the word greatest? It certainly will not be the biggest. |
| 1:59.6 | It won't be the biggest and it won't be the most impressive. Now the reason for that is it lacks the |
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