Jon Jones Is Back, Valentina Calls for Rematch, and What's Ngannou's Plan?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On today's loaded episode, Chael discusses:

How Jon Jones returned in more ways than one last week (00:55)
Opening odds in a title fight between Jones and heavyweight legend Stipe Miocic (10:30)
Khabib Nurmagomedov's gracious offer to Ciryl Gane (25:22)
Why Francis Ngannou doesn't have it all figured out like he thinks he does (34:27)
Whether former flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko deserves an immediate title rematch against Alexa Grasso (48:30)

Plus, Chael takes a look at a massive UFC bantamweight showdown this weekend between Petr Yan and Merab Dvalishvili (1:03:30).

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, happy Friday!
0:10.2	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome.
0:13.2	Alright guys, we got so much conversation going on this week about UFC 285.
0:17.6	I'm going to keep it going.
0:19.2	We're going to get into Francis and Ghana.
0:21.1	And whether I think you guys even care what he does with the next movie of his career.
0:26.6	I want to discuss whether the bullet deserves an immediate rematch.
0:30.6	I'm also going to get into something I think is going to surprise you which is the opening
0:34.5	odds for John Jones versus Tipei Miochet.
0:38.8	Guys, we even got some news between Jake Paul and Floyd Mayweather.
0:43.4	This is going to be a good one.
0:45.4	Let's begin here.
0:49.2	So a few important things to learn about John Jones from this last week.
0:55.7	The victory helped, right?
0:57.8	None of this stuff happens if you don't have a victory.
1:01.5	John Jones has been largely dismissed in this sport.
1:04.7	How come?
1:05.7	How would that be?
1:08.7	When people come up with the greatest effort list, I personally cannot remember the last
1:15.7	time that I was in one of those or even observed one of those when they gave me time.
1:21.4	Anytime somebody gets hit, it's the greatest fight of all time.
1:23.2	I've never heard anybody give it answer.
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