UFC 278 Preview: Usman vs. Edwards 2 Breakdown, Aldo's Last Stand, and Will Costa Make Weight?

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Chael Sonnen

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

One day before the highly anticipated UFC 278 in Salt Lake City, UT, Chael discusses:

What Kamaru Usman really means when he talks about fighting at light heavyweight and boxing Canelo Alvarez (00:52)
Luke Rockhold's bold press conference comments and if Paulo Costa will successfully make 185 lbs. (14:46)
If tomorrow night could be the last time we see Jose Aldo when he takes on the streaking Merab Dvalishvili (26:26)
What's on the line between Rockhold and Costa (33:32)
How Usman-Edwards 2 will differ from the first time the guys fought each other in 2015 (39:52)

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0:00.0	What's happening guys? Happy Friday!
0:10.0	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome presented by DraftKingSports
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0:21.8	Use the promo code CHAL to get in on all the action guys coming up on today's show.
0:26.8	I'm going to give you my official predictions. For the top three fights of this weekend's
0:31.6	main car plus Luke Rockle is turning heel and Paulo Costa says he has one fight left on
0:39.5	his UFC contract before we get to those stories. I want to talk about a big headline the
0:45.4	media is talking about as we head into tomorrow's main car.
0:51.8	Tomorrow's been 205 pounds go. I mean that's how this is going to work.
0:58.5	Tomorrow's is not going to go and fight it 205 pounds. Tomorrow's is not going to fight
1:03.9	for the world light heavyweight championship. But the debate is going to exist. So what
1:11.3	do you say? Now it's really important that you break this down because tomorrow's
1:18.0	men who is a great not 70 pounder not great of our sport. He's an athletic great. He's
1:26.7	an athletic genius. He's letting us in on something here. Now John Anac was waiting on
1:33.3	this and John Anac says stated for the audience hey guys don't it all be confused.
1:39.2	Tomorrow's been is not overlooking Leon by talking about 205 pounds now this is relevant
1:43.5	because John Anac meets with comar oozman he meets with everybody on the car before he
1:47.4	goes and does his job. So he had his meeting with comar at least the way I envision now
1:51.6	he's coming out and he's sharing with you guys but he has the same interpretation that
1:54.6	I've shared with you for a little bit. Which is comar oozman is bored. Now that's rude
2:03.1	that's not a nice way to say it. Those are words that comar has never used and if comar
2:07.7	heard me say it he might even deny them. Comar may not know this about himself. He's
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