I Know What's Next For Justin Gaethje. Plus, Jan Blachowicz Got ROBBED & Wonderboy Saved Derrick Lewis' Career!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Back after a crazy weekend in Salt Lake City, Chael discusses the following on today's UFC 291 reaction episode:

What to do with BMF champion Justin Gaethje following his head-kick win over Dustin Poirier (1:02)
Why Chael thinks Jan Blachowicz beat Alex Pereira but nonetheless ... Pereira finds himself in the midst of a historic UFC run (7:56)
Derrick Lewis' nearly perfect outing that now has him set to field some lucrative offers in free agency (16:53)
Why, despite a dominant win over Michael Chiesa, Chael believes Kevin Holland should go back up to 185 lbs. (32:36)
Conor McGregor's tweets at Gaethje and where the Irishman fits into this whole lightweight mess involving Gaethje, Charles Oliveira, Islam Makhachev, Michael Chandler, and Alexander Volkanovski (41:47)

Plus, Chael tells you why Lewis owes Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson a massive favor.

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0:00.0	I do miss the days where the judges know where we're at as an industry and then screw a guy over to serve that narrative.
0:10.8	I do miss the days, but they're back.
0:13.8	What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome guys.
0:28.2	What a weekend it was in Salt Lake City at UFC 291.
0:33.7	I was really excited to be there and boy did the fights deliver coming up on today's episode.
0:40.1	I'm gonna get into everything that I saw.
0:42.9	Plus, Kevin Hollins, master class, Alex Pierre is historic performance and guys, I'm gonna run down the card.
0:51.2	With that said, it only makes sense that we begin with the main event.
0:55.8	Let's talk a little B.M.F.
1:02.3	Michael Eaves, Michael Eaves was the host for all the ESPN content he saw of the weekend.
1:08.2	I hope you guys enjoyed that, but I got to work with Michael Eaves.
1:11.0	And so I heard that Michael Eaves kept insisting that Gagey versus Porje was gonna be a number one contenders match.
1:21.4	Now, he didn't promise it right.
1:22.6	Notice the word I mean, he didn't come out.
1:23.8	He didn't tell people this.
1:25.1	It wasn't on his show sheet.
1:26.7	This was him as an observer of the sport looking at number two versus number three in a main event capacity.
1:34.7	So you guys, you can't tell me that the guy that wins this gets the B.M.F.
1:39.6	passed down to him from Moscow himself.
1:41.6	Is it gonna be shined up to a capacity of number one contender?
1:44.2	He was completely correct.
1:46.8	And we alluded that number of times over here, bad guy, ink, but it sure turned out to be true.
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