My Responses to Ariel Helwani and Jorge Masvidal. Plus, UFC 295 Predictions and Conor McGregor at UFC 300?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode I discuss:

My heated argument with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour (00:00)
My response to Jorge Masvidal's mean comments (17:06)
What happened to Israel Adesanya? (33:43)
Who I think will headline UFC 300 (44:32)
The fight week vibes in New York City, as seen from my hotel (54:59)

Plus, I give my official predictions for Sergei Pavlovich vs. Tom Aspinall (01:04:28) and Jiří Procházka vs. Alex Pereira (01:14:02).

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0:00.0	And I'm kind of looking around and go, what is wrong with you?
0:03.4	Where did this come from for one?
0:06.0	But you don't have to tell me.
0:07.1	It's here.
0:08.0	It's arrived.
0:09.0	It's here. It's here. Fine.
0:10.0	Fine.
0:11.0	Keep the same energy if you see me.
0:14.0	Is there a gangster in the world that you have to worry about keeping the same energy when he sees you? What's happening guys?
0:25.0	What's happening guys?
0:29.0	Happy Friday live from New York.
0:31.0	I am staring at Madison Square Garden right now. There's something, there's an energy about that. You're going to feel that energy and I'm going to pass it to you guys. Thank you for joining another episode of your welcome. Should we get that out of the way? Guys, coming up on today's show, I'm going to give you my official predictions.
0:47.0	And I'm going to tell you something very special that's going on in this event, scheduled for Madison Square Garden on Saturday but before we get there guys So I went on Ariel's program last week and I never spoke about this because it
1:08.1	didn't go well and Ariel's my friend. I mean, you do have to understand that. Like, if friends fight, if you're
1:18.6	truly friends, you get over the fight. And Ariel and I were having a debate. It was a very heated debate. And within
1:27.0	the debate, I made two points. And I only made two points. We were discussing Francis
1:32.0	versus Fury.
1:33.0	There's two ways to observe what you saw.
1:39.0	The first was from a competitive standpoint.
1:42.0	And from a competitive standpoint. And from a competitive standpoint,
1:44.0	this greatly exceeded all expectations.
1:48.0	Then you have the financial standpoint.
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