Jake Paul to PFL, Does Nate Diaz Await? Plus, The Scariest Fighter in MMA History

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Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In a big week of MMA news, Chael discusses:

PFL's signing of Jake Paul and how the YouTube star might fare in an MMA fight with free agent Nate Diaz (00:44)
The re-booking of Shavkat Rakhmonov and Geoff Neal (18:38)
Why Belal Muhammad is to be feared in the UFC's welterweight division (23:53)
Betting lines for a potential future fight between Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones (31:38)

Plus, Chael gives you his pick for the most intimidating fighter in MMA history (39:34).

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, happy Friday!
0:10.3	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome.
0:13.6	You know, it's been a big week of news in MMA and as much of it as I can get into, we're
0:20.6	going to break down on today's show.
0:22.2	Look, coming up, there's a betting line out for John Jones versus Francis and Ghana.
0:26.8	The rock modified appears to be back on and I'm also going to ask the question, who is
0:33.0	the scariest fighter in MMA history?
0:36.1	All that's coming up later.
0:37.6	But let's begin with the biggest stories of the day.
0:43.8	Jake Paul going to the PFL.
0:46.8	Now this had been rumored for a while.
0:51.6	Jake was pretty good at rumoring this.
0:54.0	And there was kind of a built-in belief if Jake comes over, the Belator would be the
0:59.6	home for him.
1:01.4	And when I tell you that was a built-in belief where that had come from is when Jake was
1:06.0	doing some boxing, he was doing it for showtime, showtime has the rights to Belator.
1:11.8	Everything's going to work itself out and here you go.
1:13.4	But then PFL strike guys, I'm going back a long time too.
1:16.6	I'm not going back a full year but I'm going back to March.
1:20.0	I'm going back to April of 2022, damn near year.
1:25.4	And all of a sudden PFL started to look viable.
1:29.0	Start to look like maybe somewhere that the Jake would end up.
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