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You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

McGregor Sets the Record Straight on TUF, Jon Jones Prepares for UFC 285, and Who Is Shavkat Rakhmonov?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It's fight week! On today's episode*, Chael discusses:

  • The UFC 285 main event and how the heavyweight division could look after Saturday night (00:35)
  • Conor McGregor defending himself against claims that he's brought in some of his own guys for 'The Ultimate Fighter' (9:05)
  • If Chael thinks we'll get a rematch between Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski (17:32)
  • Some clarity on Khamzat Chimaev (24:25)
  • How much do we actually know about Shavkat Rakhmonov heading into his UFC 285 bout with Geoff Neal? (30:25)

*This episode was recorded before the Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury fight

Thanks to this episode’s sponsor: RocketMoney.com/Chael

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode

0:12.2

of your welcome. I hope you all had a great weekend. Coming up on today's show,

0:16.0

Rock Mono returns at UFC 285. What does he have to prove? I'll get into that plus.

0:22.8

I'm going to talk about Islam, Michael chip. And I'll also set the record straight on

0:27.0

Conor McGregor. Before all of that, let's begin here.

0:34.4

All right, so Joe Jones is not leaving himself room with Usada. He's not giving

0:39.4

himself a cushion. He's not making that part of his story. He doesn't like it and

0:43.0

he wants it gone fair enough. He's come out and says that he would like to fight

0:48.5

Steve and me, oh, Jitso. Now, if you think it's because of the orthodox stance,

0:54.1

if you think it's because of the accomplishments, because you think it's the one guy that

0:58.5

defended his title more than Fador Amelianaco. John actually clears it up for us. He said

1:05.3

I would love to fight a man of that stature. And that was a really interesting comment.

1:16.5

In fact, in fact, let me paraphrase and get it perfectly right. It would be an honor

1:22.6

to fight a man of that stature. That's what he said. And I can't think of any any reason

1:30.2

that might be out there, but I just can't think of what I thought my head. That's a

1:33.8

worse reason to fight. I couldn't imagine wanting to damage and hurt somebody because you

1:39.9

admired him so much. It sounds weird. Well, it is weird, as a matter of fact. And it feels

1:48.4

like a sell job to me. I am very light on the idea that everybody that came together

1:59.9

to make this time of fight happen came to the agreement that they want us all to think

2:06.1

they came to, which is surreal versus Jones and Steve may take some of the winner. I don't

2:13.6

think that that was agreed to. I think it's a really good option, but it's also fair

2:20.4

for me to bring up. Then why isn't it happening on March 4th? And moreover, why didn't it

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