Rico vs Usyk Was Worse Than We Thought, Is the UFC Hiding Ilia Topuria From Islam? Plus Ask Uncle Chael
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening, guys? Happy Friday. |
| 0:07.4 | So many stories to get to. Let's start here. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, I take it all back. I take it back. RICO versus Usik, I rewatched it. And I got to tell you, |
| 0:31.1 | I don't like to be influenced by others, but I am. I try not to be. |
| 0:38.0 | I try to have my own independent thought. |
| 0:40.3 | I thought that I had enough information about Ussick Enrico to speak on it and to tell you |
| 0:47.0 | anything from the screw job to incompetence. |
| 0:55.1 | I settled on incompetence |
| 0:57.0 | with the referee. |
| 1:00.0 | Fully acknowledging that |
| 1:01.9 | the referee, much like the judges, |
| 1:04.2 | unspokenly knew they have a job |
| 1:06.2 | to do, which is to keep the boxing belt |
| 1:08.3 | with the boxer. |
| 1:13.0 | But... which is to keep the boxing belt with the boxer. But I went and re-watched it in its entirety. |
| 1:20.7 | Now, when I came to you guys, I had sources, I had play-by-play, I was on an airplane, I could get clips. It's not the same as watching |
| 1:29.6 | the entire thing. I thought that everybody did a very good job, starting with Todd Grisham, |
| 1:37.7 | who is the announcer, who said, ref, what are you doing? This is for the world heavyweight title. |
| 1:46.3 | I thought that that was very good. I think that that's going to be an iconic phrase. I think that's going to be played |
| 1:49.9 | into perpetuity, particularly if these guys ever rematch. I feel as though Grisham did his job, |
| 1:55.5 | spoke to what he saw. I just think that that influenced me. |
| 2:03.1 | And at the time that I came to you, hard on the referee and talking about the incompetence, |
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