Henry Cejudo Was Never Going To Fight Marlon Vera. Plus, My Valentina Shevchenko Fantasy!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

With UFC 290 right around the corner ... Chael discusses none of it. On today's episode, Chael instead gets into:

Henry Cejudo pulling out of his UFC 292 bout with Chito Vera and Vera's consequent callout of former bantamweight champion Petr Yan (00:45)
Valentina Shevchenko finally getting the chance to headline a card in September (9:18)
The "deal" between Deontay Wilder and Francis Ngannou (18:41)
Whether Conor McGregor is still hanging around because he actually intends to fight or just because he wants to make headlines (24:38)
Why NBA superstar LeBron James is a "dry snitch" (33:57)

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0:00.0	Do you have to let me assure you, you don't know what a deal is.
0:02.6	You can barely spell the word deal.
0:04.3	That's a four letter word!
0:06.0	And man, that's a lot of digits to write, then he knows.
0:09.0	The deal, what's the deal, what does he tell us what the deal is?
0:18.4	What's happening, guys?
0:19.8	Happy Tuesday and moreover.
0:22.2	Happy Independence Day.
0:24.3	America, guys, we got a lot of stuff to recap.
0:27.2	We got a busy assortment from news to rumors to actual competitions.
0:32.4	MMA's had a great week and we're going to get into it.
0:37.3	Cheeto struck again, I feel like Cheeto Jit.
0:39.8	I feel like he just keeps it over.
0:43.4	Cheeto Barra is doing such a good job with his career that that and that alone
0:47.8	is why he and O'Malley need to fight.
0:50.4	Like it's not about resumes or the injury or the previous match or the rankings.
0:56.0	I mean, if you're comparing resumes, well, this guy's 114 in a row.
0:58.4	And this guy's 113 in a row.
0:59.6	And this is about how well they're both doing with their careers.
1:03.0	It's how well they're doing with garnering attention.
1:07.1	And when they get set attention, making it interesting.
1:10.0	So that that attention returns.
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