Sean Strickland Made a BIG Mistake. Plus, Poirier vs. Gaethje Preview and Tom Aspinall's PERFECT Comeback!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

UFC 291 fight week is upon us! On today's episode, Chael discusses:

The impressive return of Tom Aspinall and how he's perfectly set up his path to the heavyweight title (00:58)
Jon Jones' response to Aspinall's win and whether Chael thinks the heavyweight champion is afraid to face the likes of Aspinall and Sergei Pavlovich (12:18)
Dricus Du Plessis pulling out of the Israel Adesanya title fight and whether Sean Strickland is the right guy to step in his place (19:27)
Paul Craig's callout of Bo Nickal and if that's the right fight to make (33:02)

Plus, Chael breaks down Saturday's upcoming main event between Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje at UFC 291 (38:56).

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0:00.0	I'll bury the sun gun, believe me I will, but I gotta do it with reality.
0:04.3	It's not real that John's scared of this next generation or that he's unwilling or he's gonna
0:08.9	retire or he's gonna run from him. It's not real.
0:18.0	What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode of
0:23.1	You're Welcome. Well guys, it's officially fight week. UFC 291 is this Saturday. I can't believe
0:30.6	we're getting another paper view already, but here we are at the end of today's episode.
0:35.7	I'm gonna break down the fight between Porje and Gachy. I'm also gonna get into Paul Craig's call
0:41.2	out of Bonickel and Drake is due Plyssi pulling out of the fight versus Otisanya. All of that and more
0:49.1	coming up on today's program, but let's begin with the big news coming out of UFC London this past
0:55.2	weekend. Tom Aspinol, welcome back. Wow. It really is a wow moment. This was a particularly
1:07.3	difficult position that Tom was put in. Allow me to compare it to what John Jones just did.
1:15.6	And I know there's some problems with a direct comparison, but that's a name that you will
1:19.6	recognize. And my example will hold up in this regard. One of the things that made John's
1:25.1	return so incredible is the environment that he walked into. He walked into a five round main
1:34.0	event situation after being removed from the sport for a meaningful amount of time. Now,
1:41.6	Tom's wasn't as long as John's. In fact, it was about his third of his longness, John's,
1:46.8	but he did return in his hometown. He did return into a very difficult match with a very difficult
1:52.8	opponent. And by the way, it was scheduled for 25 minutes. Look, the human body is not made to do
1:59.7	25 minutes. I mean, it's a colossally difficult situation. And it requires an immense amount of
2:08.6	training. Not an eight week camp, but not a 10 week camp. Like you hear these lazy guys talk
2:13.5	about it. It's a life's work to then be able to go out there and to figure yourself at all times
2:20.0	in a 25 minute atmosphere. And I just bring that to you because I don't imagine that he could have
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