Top Stories - Nate Diaz is Out on Poirier, Frankie Edgar vs. Cory Sandhagen and "The Sandhagen"
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
So we now know that Nate Diaz is out of a Dustin Poirier fight. So that means...the door is open for who? As for Nate, Tony Ferguson has entered the chat. In case you missed it, the Frankie Edgar vs. Cory Sandhagen is happening, and we almost didn't know about.
Here's a question...why didn't a Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul bout work? The answer is in the novelty, and the interest. And staying on the Paul family side, let's take a gander a Logan's poem.
Also, Chael takes a minute to give the "Sandhagen" a push to the dictionary.
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode |
| 0:12.3 | of your welcome. |
| 0:22.7 | So Nate Diaz has left the Dustin Porier sweepstakes and Nate did it very quickly. It was a former |
| 0:29.4 | social media. It's got no problem with the Dustin fight. He's got a problem with 155 pounds. He |
| 0:34.8 | declared his next fight will be at 170. Fine. But it starts to remove the players, right? I mean, it |
| 0:41.6 | does appear somewhat obvious that it's going to be Con McGregor, right? It appears somewhat obvious if |
| 0:46.8 | Con McGregor wants to fight you and you're a 155 powder, okay, wonderful. And you go fight Con McGregor. |
| 0:52.2 | Perhaps I am just trying to add to this conversation. Perhaps there was never anything to talk about in |
| 0:57.3 | the first place. But the insertion of Con McGregor into a title fight with Dustin Porier is very much |
| 1:07.9 | worth talking about in that it's the opposite of what we were discussing two weeks ago. We all |
| 1:14.1 | as a community were very agreed upon the idea that the winner of the main event would take on the |
| 1:20.0 | winner of the co main event. And that didn't change that didn't even change after Michael Chandler had |
| 1:26.2 | won. It didn't even change when Porier won. It changed when Connor lost. As soon as Connor got beat, |
| 1:34.7 | we all kind of threw away everything we had been saying for two months. It said, no, wait a minute, |
| 1:38.5 | it's got to be Connor. It's got to be Porier. Let's do it again. This is a trilogy after all. Oh, |
| 1:43.2 | and we got to throw the title on the line. I'm as guilty of it as you guys. I understand. |
| 1:49.0 | We did not see that coming in many ways. We didn't love the idea of Chandler versus Porier as much as |
| 2:00.8 | seeing a more familiar name in Connor McGregor. Seeing Connor try to get redemption or watching Connor |
| 2:07.8 | fall in that sword once and for all and never be able to bounce back. But whatever part of it is |
| 2:11.9 | that story that you like, that story did change not when Chandler won and not when Porier won, but when |
| 2:17.0 | McGregor lost. So perhaps I'm the dog chasing his tail. I understand that, but I do feel as though |
| 2:24.0 | there was a little bit of dialogue at least at one point for Porier to not necessarily go against |
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