Max Holloway's Peculiar Position, A "Real Fight" for Alex Pereira, and Jon Jones is LYING!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After watching another stellar UFC event in Kansas City this past weekend, Chael is here to discuss the following on today's episode:

Max Holloway's impressive win over up-and-comer Arnold Allen and what the UFC should do with the beloved former champion (00:42)
Conflicting reports surrounding Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic and Jones' consequent tweets threatening his retirement from MMA (9:11)
Who Chael thinks Alex Pereira should face in his first light heavyweight fight (28:40)
The postponement of Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush for next month's UFC 288 and how Dana White and crew may go about replacing such a big fight (37:01)

And more!

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, Happy Tuesday!
0:09.6	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome.
0:13.2	I gotta tell you guys, as MMA fans, we are spoiled.
0:17.3	We just wrapped up another great week of UFC fights and coming up on today's show.
0:22.4	I wanna talk about Max Holloway vs. Arnold Allen.
0:25.4	I'm also gonna tell you why John Jones is lying to all of you.
0:29.8	And I'm gonna give you my pick for Alex Piaris first fight at 205 pounds.
0:34.6	All of that. Coming up later in the program, but let's begin here.
0:42.2	Max Holloway called out Korean zombie now.
0:47.6	Max's reason was very unique.
0:52.0	And frankly it was awesome.
0:54.0	He just said, I fought everybody of my time.
0:57.4	All the top guys that were fighting when I was fighting, trying to be a top guy, I've competed with.
1:03.4	Except one in that zombie.
1:05.8	And there was a time when Max was in the division and hadn't yet broken into the top 10.
1:10.0	And zombie was the number one contender.
1:12.0	I think it was rank number two, but he was the number one contender.
1:14.0	He got the fight with Jose Aller just to offer context for you of how long Max has been studying guys,
1:21.4	including that one and never matched up with him.
1:23.6	It's very unusual that somebody coming off of a loss, we get in there with somebody coming off of a win,
1:28.6	particularly a very clear number one contender.
1:32.2	And then in Max and you got a guy coming in off of a loss, zombies already accepted.
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