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You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Pereira and Chimaev Make Headlines, Ex-Friend Goes After McGregor, and Aljo Names His Opponent

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In a drama-filled episode, Chael discusses:

  • Conflicting stories about a rumored fight between Alex Pereira and Khamzat Chimaev, and who we should believe (9:02)
  • Alex Pereira's warrior-like persona and how it showed out at UFC 281 (24:18)
  • Whether Glover Teixeira "got screwed" in the whole UFC 282 mess (36:32)
  • Legal issues between former friends Conor McGregor and Artem Lobov (49:09)
  • Is a fight between Paddy Pimblett and McGregor actually as compelling as you think it is? (1:03:40)

Plus, Aljamain Sterling says he's got his next title challenger lined up, and Chael tells you why you need to trust everything he says (00:37).

Presented by: Netsuite

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening guys? Happy Friday! And thank you for joining another special episode

0:12.5

of your welcome. Now we got a really big show coming up today. I'm going to discuss

0:16.6

the he said she said between Jemaya and Pierrea. We're also going to dive into the beef

0:22.6

between Ardom Lobeth and Carter McGregor and we're going to talk about the rumors going

0:27.6

around against Aljo Sterling's next title fight. All of that and more on today's show.

0:33.8

But let's begin here.

0:34.8

Hey, help me out with something. Somewhere it appears that I miss something. As a matter

0:42.3

of fact, and I'm not asking you guys to go all the legwork, I'm going to go on aerial

0:46.1

show tomorrow. I have some questions for Ariel. Because I will tell you what annoys me.

0:53.2

But what will annoy me is when somebody tells me that I got it wrong. I mean, I will just

1:00.4

tell you, there is a certain arrogance here. But there's nobody that you go for. There's

1:06.1

nobody that you go to for advice in this sport if you can get to me. And I've had this

1:12.8

happen and been stunned. I've been in vans. I've been in circles. I've been in lunch.

1:18.4

I've been in social gatherings where people will bring up an idea about the sport. And

1:22.2

then I will tell them what the right answer is. And I am dumbfounded when they offer something

1:27.4

back. Truly. Now, I'd say that to you as a commentator, but I say that to you as a

1:36.0

coach, but I say that to you as an analyst, but I say that to you as an athlete, but I

1:43.0

say that to you as a promoter. And that's where the line gets drawn. If you are promoting

1:53.2

events and you have found a way to stay afloat in this business, you are in a completely

2:00.6

separate category of expertise about this business. That's not to shine my wheels up. That's

2:07.6

the truth. And it really does to an extent. Surprise me more than it does bother me. It

2:17.1

surprises me. When somebody has access to my mind in the sport of MMA, and I offer an

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