The Psychology of Alex Pereira, Matchmaking for Poirier, and Is Pereira the Worst 185 Lb. Champ Ever?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Still drunk on the madness that was UFC 281, Chael discusses:

How Israel Adesanya could have used Alex Pereira's own psychology against him last Saturday night (00:42)
Comparisons between Pereira and welterweight champion Leon Edwards (11:32)
Advice to Robert Whittaker (24:42)
Who Dustin Poirier should fight next following his win over Michael Chandler (30:23)
If we aren't giving Pereira enough credit for defeating Adesanya (46:40)

Presented by: Dave

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode
0:12.5	of your welcome to UFC 2.81 hangover guys, it's real.
0:17.0	And coming up on today's show, I'm going to dive into the mystery that is Alex Pierre.
0:22.8	I'm going to talk about the psychology he used against Otasagna and the comparisons between
0:28.4	Pierre and Leon Edwards Plus is Pierre the worst middleweight champion we've ever seen
0:34.8	and what's next for Dustin for a Let's Waste no time and get into it now.
0:42.2	Walk down a road of silliness with me, okay?
0:48.4	Come on this journey, come on this journey.
0:50.3	Let me bounce you around a little bit and stay with me.
0:52.6	Now, I don't know Pierre well enough.
0:58.1	The champion of the world, he never had a featured match, he was never in a main event.
1:04.7	Someone somewhere said that he beat Otasagna and someone else said that he had done it twice
1:09.2	and someone somewhere else tied it all together said he only came over here to beat Otasagna
1:12.9	again.
1:13.9	Like that's a really compelling story that all turned out to be true but it was never really
1:16.7	told it was told in bits, it was broken up, it was very clumsy.
1:22.4	Never had a big camera on him.
1:25.1	But he had Ed Soros saying he was great.
1:31.3	Ed would know a great fighter.
1:32.7	He had Glover to share a put in his name and face on it by coming in his corner and saying
1:37.4	this guy is a problem for everyone.
1:41.3	Glover went further that includes on the ground as wrestling stuff is you just you know
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