Max Holloway Did the Right Thing, Conor McGregor’s Troll Job, and I Want To Fight Volkanovski!
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
After an emotional weekend in combat sports, I discuss the following on today's episode:
- Max Holloway's win over The Korean Zombie and what's next for the former UFC featherweight champion (00:45)
- Ilia Topuria saying he'll tap out Alexander Volkanovski and why I think that's a dumb thing to say (18:29)
- Why I commend Conor McGregor for a tweet he put out this weekend about the Michael Chandler fight (28:16)
- How UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya reminds me of boxing legend Jack Johnson (36:37)
- Why Merab Dvalishvili just made a big mistake (45:36)
Plus, I tell you why the Logan Paul fight is Dillon Danis' last hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Now my soldier, are we good? Are we good? Do we go home? |
| 0:03.2 | No, we don't. Because the entire issue is to get him away from Volk. |
| 0:07.6 | There's one guy. There just happens to be one guy. |
| 0:10.5 | And that one guy might be going up to 55. |
| 0:14.1 | Do you see the problem now? |
| 0:23.1 | What's happening, guys? Happy Tuesday! |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, thank you for joining. |
| 0:27.2 | Another special episode of you. Welcome. Man, what a weekend it was. |
| 0:30.2 | We got Conor McGregor doing one of the all-time troll jobs. |
| 0:33.4 | We got Ilya Toporia and he's saying he can tap out Alex Volkanovsky, |
| 0:37.4 | which does not seem easy to do. |
| 0:39.4 | And I'm going to tell you why Mirab is sabotaging his own career. |
| 0:44.0 | But before we get into any of that, guys, the emotions were high on Saturday morning. |
| 0:49.4 | Between Max Holloway and the Korean zombie, and it's only right to begin the day show here. |
| 0:57.2 | Let's talk Conor. People will call this a martial art. |
| 1:04.4 | And I'm well aware it's called Mixed Martial Arts. |
| 1:06.4 | But I also push back to tell you that term Mixed Martial Arts only came up to get a law |
| 1:11.2 | passed to the legislature in Nevada in 2001. |
| 1:13.6 | I mean, I do think it's very relevant. |
| 1:14.9 | Like, people have really clung to this honor and respect, |
| 1:17.7 | and all the ideas that they have about martial arts, |
| 1:19.6 | which they don't have from anywhere other than the movies. |
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