Makhachev's Future as Champion, Suga' Sean Wins the Night, and McGregor vs. The USADA Pool

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

UFC 280 delivered! And on today's show, Chael discusses:

If Saturday night was Aljamain Sterling's biggest moment yet (00:48)
Why Sean O'Malley deserves credit for not only how he fought, but also for how he handled himself after his win over Petr Yan (9:12)
Islam Makhachev's lightweight title win, where Oliveira went wrong, and the appearance of Alexander Volkanovski after the fight (15:18)
What kind of title reign Makhachev will have (26:50)
If Henry Cejudo will swoop in for a bantamweight title shot over O'Malley and Marlon Vera (42:44).

And, Chael tells you why we shouldn't worry about Conor McGregor not having his name in the USADA testing pool (50:37).

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0:00.0	What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode
0:12.7	of your welcome and you know what guys? I told you UFC 280 was going to be huge and
0:18.3	guys I really thought it delivered. In the first half of the day's show I'm going to give
0:22.8	you my immediate reactions that I had on Saturday night following the end of the main event.
0:29.6	After that I'm going to push the ball forward to talk about some of the biggest storylines
0:34.0	coming out of the evening like Islam, Michael, Chefs, popularity. Dana White's comments
0:39.1	about Conor McGregor and more. Guys, let's get into it. Where should we begin? I know
0:50.9	where should we begin and how many different emotions are you guys having right now?
0:54.8	There was more storylines going in to UFC 280 and there's more storylines coming out
1:00.7	right? That's when you know a card delivers by the way. I know it's presented to you
1:05.2	the audience that you love action and that you love finishes. I know people keep telling
1:09.9	you that to the point that you start to believe that it's true. If you want to know what a
1:14.5	good card is, okay, there's only one thing that drives business which is anticipation to
1:19.7	UFC 280 had it. Now, how do you know of a card delivered? It's not by knockouts and it's
1:24.8	not by submissions and it's not by find of the year candidates. I know you're told that
1:29.4	to the point that you believe it and you tell it to other people that isn't the real test.
1:35.0	Do you have anticipation going in coming out the back end? Do you have storylines? If
1:40.8	you got resolution to everything, you've got a problem. If you have a match that you
1:47.1	can go and line up, okay, good job. But in this case tonight, guys, five with five different
1:54.8	storylines. So now 280 gets to live on. 280 gets to continue here. I want to start here
2:01.8	guys because I want to start with Aljo. Now, I've been very open to share with you guys
2:07.8	my personal relationship with both Dillas and Aljo. I've admitted that as a way of trying
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