Dricus Du Plessis Created a Monster. Plus, Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic Don't Want To Fight Each Other!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this special UFC 290 reaction episode, Chael discusses the following:

Alexander Volkanovski's beatdown of Yair Rodriguez and what the UFC should do next with the featherweight great (00:53)
Dricus Du Plessis's unlikely ascendance, and also the post-fight staredown with Israel Adesanya that DDP hoped would never happen (7:54)
An interesting spot for rising star Bo Nickal (23:47)
Chael's favorite Robbie Lawler stories following Lawler's perfect retirement fight (31:56)

Plus, Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic are officially booked for Madison Square Garden in November. But ... did either guy actually want this to happen (40:05)?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	To pour it vs. Volk would look like the match to make it.
0:02.9	45, if Volk is leaving 45 to 55, he needs to leave the belt behind.
0:08.0	That's my opinion.
0:09.2	I'm gonna push for that.
0:17.8	What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday!
0:20.2	And thank you for joining.
0:21.6	Another special episode of you welcome, man.
0:23.9	USC290 was one of the best international fight week cards in some time
0:29.2	and coming up on today's show, I'm gonna talk about all the Robbie Lawler went out in style.
0:34.2	Bonickel showed his hands Volkanovsky did what Volkanovsky does and Anna Sohnia potentially made a fool of himself.
0:43.2	I'm gonna get into all of this and more in today's episode, but I want to begin by giving the champion his due.
0:54.2	Volkanovsky, where do you put him?
0:55.8	Guys, where do you put him?
0:57.2	I was on Ariel Shorler today, I got asked.
1:00.2	Ariel told me, since she's a lady, I have Volkanovsky's the greatest pound for pound fighter today.
1:06.2	Do you have a problem with that?
1:09.2	And I had a problem with the fact that Ariel thought he was taking a risk by calling Volk the greatest pound for pound fighter today.
1:16.2	That was my problem. That's not a risk.
1:18.2	That's very, that's clearly obvious. And you can throw some other guys in there.
1:21.2	You can bring in Islam.
1:23.2	You can bring in John Jones. Like, you could do those things.
1:26.2	Volk is in the conversation, the very small conversation for the greatest to have ever done it, for the greatest of all,
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