Predicting Nate Diaz's UFC Return Fight and What's Holding Up Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Chael discusses:

How Dricus Du Plessis can get himself back into the middleweight title conversation after this week's official booking of Israel Adesanya vs. Sean Strickland at UFC 293 in Sydney next month (00:51)
Derrick Lewis' decision to re-sign with the UFC and why Chael loves everything Lewis has done in the past month (19:24)
Chael's idea for who Nate Diaz should fight if he decides to return to the UFC (25:34)
Dana White doubling down on Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler, which leaves Chael wondering about the real reason why it's taking so long to make this fight (33:32)

Plus, a lookahead to next week's UFC 292 by discussing Ian Machado Garry's new opponent (42:38) and what makes Aljamain Sterling vs. Sean O'Malley such a compelling matchup (49:55).

Transcript

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0:00.0	I've beaten four men in the UFC before I ever got interviewed by Joe Rogan.
0:04.0	You know I'm embarrassing that was.
0:05.4	I'd be standing right in the middle of the camp, put my crap, you know, my mom's looking at me, I got this problem,
0:09.3	and I'm standing there.
0:17.8	What's happening, guys? Happy Friday!
0:20.2	And thank you for joining.
0:21.6	Another special episode of you're welcome.
0:24.0	As usual, we got a lot to get to today, guys.
0:26.9	Coming up on today's show, I'm going to talk about Dana White,
0:29.8	who recently confirmed the fight between Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler,
0:34.0	talk about Nate Diaz's future, and Logan Paul is boxing, Dylan Danis.
0:39.3	All of that, coming up on today's show, but let's begin here.
0:47.7	Alright, guys, so Dana does an announcement last night,
0:52.9	Australia event, Sean Strickland, will in fact be the opponent for Otisani.
0:59.0	And by the way, I kind of felt like it was a treat.
1:01.2	This pops up on my phone.
1:02.5	I didn't go look for it.
1:04.5	Pops up on my phone is Dana sitting there.
1:06.8	Similar to what I'm doing now, there's nobody around.
1:08.4	No question is asked of him or a back and forth, and you got to put up with 20 minutes.
1:12.1	It's nothing like this to get the information.
1:13.9	He's here, camera comes on, boom, here's the information you need to know.
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