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You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

The Middleweight Title Picture, Ferguson's Tough Streak & The Changing MMA Landscape

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

After a wild weekend in combat sports, Chael opens the show by reacting to a great middleweight bout between Kelvin Gastelum and Jarod Cannonier. Then, Chael discusses if Adesanya-Whittaker 2 really is the next title fight to make at 185 lbs. (13:28) and Tony Ferguson's losing streak (29:44). Plus, did Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor really begin the "super fight" era?

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0:00.0

What's happening guys? Happy Wednesday and thank you for joining another special episode

0:12.5

of your welcome. I hope you guys had a great weekend and that you're ready for today because

0:18.0

I got an exciting show for you all. MMA as we know it is changing and I'll tell you why

0:24.0

plus Nate DS says he and Conor McGregor started the Superfight era and I got a big question

0:30.8

for you guys about the middle weights and speaking of that division let's begin today's

0:35.8

episode by recapping the incredible fight that we saw on Saturday night.

0:41.4

Whoo guys where do I begin right? I'm gonna begin with some caffeine to clear my throat.

0:49.5

Let's go over the weekend because this is not just about Kelvin and Canonier by the way.

0:55.3

Let's jump off there in fact. Kelvin and Canonier held a fight. It was very good. I was a little

0:59.9

annoyed at the announce team because they were insisting that Canonier was winning the fight.

1:03.8

I thought they were wrong for one. I still maintain that they are wrong. However, I'm

1:09.8

now in a little bit of a weak position considering the announce team saw the exact same way as

1:13.8

the judges. So okay, Chails on third base wearing a casher's mitt. That's not the first time.

1:18.4

I like to sit back and talk about judges but I actually want to sit at that desk and do

1:21.9

it myself. I'm sure you guys can relate to that. But it was a very competitive match and

1:27.0

Canonier ended up getting a whole lot of respect for his defense which generally is not

1:32.1

how a fight is done. I mean generally under the 10-8 must system and it really doesn't

1:36.6

matter if you're talking unified rules or if you're talking Queensberry rules it's your

1:41.4

offense that wins you the fight but Canonier's defense was beautiful. I mean, I've got to

1:45.3

tell you, he took some really hard shots but he slipped a whole bunch of them and his

1:49.5

take down, his wrestling defense was nearly perfect. I have to say that to Jerry, you guys

1:55.4

know I'm a homer, you know I'm team Kelvin but I still want to give Jerry his credit and

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