Francis Ngannou Leaves UFC and Vacates Title. Now What? Plus, Jones vs. Gane and Stipe Speaks!

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Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It's UFC 283 week! But this episode is all about the news that rocked the MMA world this weekend. Today, Chael dives into:

Francis Ngannou's shocking decision to leave the UFC and his heavyweight title behind (00:56)
What Ngannou might do next (13:36)
The booking of Jon Jones vs. Ciryl Gane for the UFC 285 main event in March, as well as Stipe Miocic breaking his silence to call dibs on the winner (24:19)
His frustration with Paddy Pimblett following the announcement of Justin Gaethje vs. Rafael Fiziev for the London card (31:51)
Why Sean Strickland deserves more credit for his main event performance this past weekend (48:03)

And more!

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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
0:12.5	of your welcome.
0:13.5	Well guys, the new year is off to a bang and coming up on today's show, I've got an
0:19.2	avalanche of MMA news for you.
0:21.9	The London card is rounding out and we got an exciting lightweight fight that's conspicuously
0:28.4	missing a big name.
0:30.6	Sean Strickland also notched a win this weekend but before I talk about all of that, we got
0:36.8	to begin with the biggest news of all.
0:39.4	Francis and Gano is gone from the UFC, John Jones vs. Cereal is set for UFC 285 and
0:47.0	we're left with a whole lot of questions about it.
0:50.3	Allow me to try to find some answers for you right now.
0:56.0	Daisy Kebler, you guys remember her?
0:59.0	Kebler was in the WWE, she was associated with George Clooney for a number of years, went
1:06.2	on dancing with the stars, did a really, really good job on dancing with the stars.
1:11.5	So, Stacy Kebler, okay now picture this Vince McMahon in his office at Titan Tower.
1:19.0	Vince's having a conversation with the undertaker.
1:25.3	Stacy Kebler calls up, gets hold of somebody in the office that walks in and interrupts
1:31.4	Vince's meeting.
1:32.4	Says, hey, Stacy Kebler's on the phone and she wants and she started making demands in
1:38.7	this particular case, it was just a private locker room and it was going to be serviced
1:43.9	with food.
1:44.9	She gets to the arena, she'll have her own locker room, she'll have some level of catering
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