PFL (Finally) Buys Bellator ... I'm Confused. Plus, The Rock/Joe Rogan Fallout & Khamzat Chimaev Calls Out Alex Pereira (WHY?)
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Happy holidays, everybody! LOTS to get to on today's show:
- The confusing deal between PFL, Bellator, and what it means for the future of MMA (00:00)
- Why it's obvious The Rock and Joe Rogan don't like each other (21:53)
- How much does Tom Aspinall's interim title even mean? Is it legit? (30:48)
- Why I support Israel Adesanya's decision to take a break (38:02)
- Khamzat Chimaev's STUPID idea to call out Alex Pereira and how it could come back to bite him (49:25)
- Apparently Conor McGregor is a pothead? (57:40)
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| 0:00.0 | I spoke to God and he told me of all the men he's created these two are the best. |
| 0:13.8 | What's happening guys? |
| 0:18.8 | Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special |
| 0:26.3 | episode of your welcome man you guys had a lot of thoughts on what I had to say |
| 0:31.0 | last week about the rock's appearance on Joe Rogan and coming up on today's show, |
| 0:35.6 | I'm going to talk about one of the most awkward conversations I have ever seen. |
| 0:39.7 | Plus, I'm going to tell you what Israel and Sonja made the right call to step away and I'm also going to address some comments made by Henry Suhuto with regards to Tom Aspinall and what Daniel Cormier thinks of all this. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm going to get to that and more in today's show. |
| 0:56.0 | We got something breaking. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's start with this. |
| 1:00.0 | The PFL has purchased Bellitour MMA and while that might be the world's worst |
| 1:11.7 | kept secret. |
| 1:13.0 | It's officially done and it's officially announced. |
| 1:16.0 | So we're going to have questions right off the bat |
| 1:21.0 | of what happens with Bellator. |
| 1:22.0 | We've seen acquisitions in the past that have gone both ways. |
| 1:27.2 | Where and mixed martial arts company has been purchased, but it continues to run for X amount of time before it rolls over into one, but we've also seen |
| 1:39.1 | them purchased and that was the last event you shut down. |
| 1:41.4 | Now you've now got a video library and off you go in the next direction. |
| 1:45.6 | So when PFL purchased Bellator, we were given through a press release, so a back and forth not an interview of a |
| 1:55.8 | question and answer but through a press release many of the main questions that |
| 2:01.0 | we would have such as what happens to Bellator. |
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