The Must-See Fight of 2022, Ortega vs. Rodriguez Preview, and UFC's Changing Business Strategy

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Chael talks about:

The hype that's quickly building around Israel Adesanya vs. Alex Pereira (00:42)
Kamaru Usman's insistence on fighting at light heavyweight (15:44)
What's at stake for tomorrow's ABC main event between Brian Ortega and Yair Rodriguez (26:08)
The UFCs evolution during the Dana White era (38:16)

Presented by: Dave

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys?
0:08.4	It's Happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome.
0:13.0	I gotta tell you, today's show, Kamara Uzman, he's still talking about fighting at 205
0:17.6	pounds.
0:18.6	Yareer Rod Regus and Brian Ortega are gonna battle it out tomorrow night on Long Island.
0:23.8	And at the end of the day's show, I'm gonna tell you why the UFC is operating much differently
0:29.9	than it ever has before.
0:31.9	We gotta get to all of that later today, but first, I wanna start with this.
0:35.7	The air in versus autosign, you guys.
0:43.8	We're already there.
0:46.5	We're already, we're trying to get where we want to be, which is being entertained through
0:52.6	the media, enjoying a fight that isn't even announced.
0:57.7	I mean, if Dana was to come out tonight and announce this fight, then that'd be stunning.
1:02.1	Consider they both just got done.
1:04.4	But autosign is already set.
1:05.5	We gotta date.
1:06.5	I mean, did you guys see that?
1:08.0	I don't know how literal we're supposed to take that, but autosign is that we already
1:10.7	hashed out.
1:11.7	We've got a date.
1:12.9	I have no reason not to believe in, but I'm only sharing for you.
1:15.7	Let's say Dana came out today and made that announcement because we got three months.
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