Paddy Pimblett vs. Ariel Helwani, TJ Dillashaw Walks Away, and UFC 282 Predictions
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
One day before the final UFC pay-per-view of the year, Chael is here to bring you all the latest in another crazy week of mixed martial arts news. On today's episode, he discusses:
- TJ Dillashaw pulling his name from the USADA pool and what this tells us for the futures of both him and Conor McGregor (00:46)
- A viral back-and-forth exchange between Paddy Pimblett and Ariel Helwani that got very contentious this week (16:07)
- Whether Pimblett's constant bragging about money is making him unlikable (33:44)
- The four biggest stars in MMA according to Pimblett (42:35)
- Chael's official predictions for UFC 282: Darren Till vs. Dricus Du Plessis (1:01:40), Pimblett vs. Jared Gordon (1:12:56), and Jan Blachowicz vs. Magomed Ankalaev (1:18:44).
And more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys, happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode |
| 0:12.8 | of your welcome. |
| 0:13.8 | Guys, we have got an absolutely loaded show today because we are just one day away from |
| 0:20.5 | USC-282 and on the deck for today I'm going to give you my official prediction, Burble |
| 0:27.3 | Hobbits vs. Ankelayev and Pat at the Batty, vs. Truck Gordon, plus the biggest stars |
| 0:33.2 | in MMA and more. |
| 0:35.2 | But I want to begin today's show with some of the drama between Patty and my friend, |
| 0:39.8 | Ariel Hawani, as well as some big news surrounding TJ Village Shop. |
| 0:47.2 | Statement made by Usada, I'm getting this from Aaron Prost, Setters, Twitter page and |
| 0:53.0 | it reads us following this is Usada speaking, given that the UFC has commented |
| 0:57.2 | Usada can now confirm we have received notice of TJ Dila Shaw's retirement and he is no |
| 1:02.4 | longer enrolled in our testing pool. |
| 1:05.0 | In the event that an athlete is to return from UFC retirement, I think you have to understand |
| 1:10.9 | this, the point of commenting on TJ is now long behind us. |
| 1:15.3 | We're going to use TJ as a jumping off point to see if we can clear up Connor's current |
| 1:20.9 | situation. |
| 1:22.7 | How I interpret it. |
| 1:23.9 | In the event that an athlete is to return from retirement they are required to remain |
| 1:29.6 | in the testing pool for six months before they are permitted to compete. |
| 1:33.2 | The UFC may grant an exemption to the six month written rule in exceptional circumstances |
| 1:39.9 | or when the strict application of the rule would not manifest itself fairly to the athlete. |
| 1:46.0 | But in both cases, the athlete must provide at least two negative samples before returning |
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