UFC 281 Preview: Izzy's Secret, Chandler Stakes His Claim, and Official Prediction!
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With UFC 281 finally here, Chael discusses:
- The "secret" that Israel Adesanya has in store for Alex Pereira in tomorrow night's main event (23:31)
- Why Michael Chandler deserves props ahead of his fight with Dustin Poirier (32:17)
- What's really at stake between Chandler and Poirier (43:07)
- His official prediction for Adesanya vs. Pereira (51:37)
Plus, Chael gauges interest in Jake Paul vs. Andrew Tate (00:42).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys, happy Friday! |
| 0:10.1 | And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome. |
| 0:13.2 | Well guys, I've been talking about this fight for months now and finally, Otisanya vs. |
| 0:18.4 | Piera is here, coming up on today's program. |
| 0:21.5 | I want to break down the fight from all the angles and I'm also going to give you my |
| 0:26.1 | official prediction plus, I'll take a look at Pory vs. Chandler and what's its |
| 0:31.4 | state for this massive lightweight fight. But before we get to all that, let's begin here. |
| 0:36.3 | Jake Paul vs. Andrew Tate guys, what do you think? |
| 0:44.2 | I mean, where do you go with that? I really want to hear from you like, is that thumbs up? |
| 0:48.7 | Let's do it on a scale of 1 to 10. If you leave me comments, let's do it on a scale of 1 to 10. |
| 0:52.6 | 10 means yes, absolutely, can't wait to see the fight. Where are you? |
| 0:58.0 | And it's very interesting what we like, isn't it? |
| 1:01.9 | And we know that about ourselves. We know how important timing is. |
| 1:07.0 | Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield, just for a simple example, but we counted down the days, |
| 1:11.7 | oh my goodness, we couldn't wait. This took over the meeting, this took over the news. |
| 1:16.0 | If you're a fight fan, you can barely sleep that entire week. |
| 1:20.1 | What if we were to put Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield in there right now? You likely wouldn't |
| 1:23.8 | even watch it. Simple example, just to prove how important timing is and Jake's in an |
| 1:30.0 | interesting spot. Jake is proven how good he is. That's a bit of a problem. |
| 1:37.1 | A lot of this experiment with Jake in terms of getting the attraction is to watch him get |
| 1:42.0 | beat. And that's becoming slimmer and slimmer |
| 1:47.6 | pickings. The same guys that you wanted to fight, see fight Jake. |
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