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You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

The FAILED Jon Jones Experiment, Pavlovich vs. Blaydes Stakes, and is Francis Ngannou Signing with ONE?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On today's loaded episode, Chael discusses the following:*

  • Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia putting their purses on the line tomorrow night and why Chael believes this is a STUPID idea (00:48)
  • Chael's interview with ONE Championship founder Chatri Sityodtong where he talks about his interest in signing Francis Ngannou, if he believes Demetrious Johnson will retire after the Adriano Moraes trilogy, and the upcoming return of young star Sage Northcutt (17:04)
  • Why Chael believes Jon Jones' move up to heavyweight has been a colossal failure (43:02)
  • Saturday's UFC heavyweight main event between Sergei Pavlovich and Curtis Blaydes (53:04)

And much more!

*This episode was recorded before the announcement of Gilbert Burns vs. Belal Muhammad for the UFC 288 co-main event.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.7

of your welcome. Now, you all may think it's a slow news week, but Uncle Chailess here

0:17.6

to tell you that is not the case because coming up on today's show, I'm going to discuss

0:22.4

our old friend Henry Sihudo because he's back and he's got a big fight coming up in

0:27.6

a few weeks. Plus, we got a heavyweight main event on Saturday with massive stakes attached

0:33.0

to it and I've got an exclusive scoop regarding Francis and Gano in an interview that's coming

0:40.1

up later today's show. Loaded show today guys, let's get into it.

0:45.9

Ryan Garcia and Tank Davis have agreed to bet their fight purses. Now, there's multiple

0:57.5

problems with that. Aside from the sheer stupidity and recklessness, there's also a problem

1:05.4

with the perception. The perception is, I am brave, I am macho and I am confident. Now,

1:15.8

hold that thought. Conor McGregor was a voice of reason in this. How many times do you

1:21.0

say those lines in your entire life? Conor McGregor is the voice of reason here. Come

1:25.9

and tell these guys, don't do that. I really like what Conor said. Conor said to him,

1:31.1

you know, look, plays a huge part in this. Then he put himself over, which is great. He

1:37.2

said, I make way more than anybody else in this business. Don't want to be feasible for

1:40.5

me. If I was to do this in match, I'd have to bet a portion of my purse, but I'm not going

1:43.8

to do that. I'm going to keep my heart or money for my family and my loved ones. It was

1:47.0

really great by Conor. It was a great message in that don't do that. Hard stuff. Now,

1:56.1

I want to elaborate on it because you're not going to sell a single ticket doing that.

2:03.1

Winner take all doesn't work. Let me tell you guys something. If you're wondering if

2:07.5

something's good for promotion, if you've got a good angle, look back and see if they

2:12.3

ever did your idea, the thing that you've come across, see if they ever did it in a

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