UFC 284 Predictions, Chimaev Wants Whittaker, and Con Man Michael Chandler

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Now that we're just one day away from one of the biggest fights in recent memory, Chael has a lot to get off his chest. On today's episode, Chael discusses:

If we should believe Dana White when he says UFC 284 will break PPV records (00:52)
Why Michael Chandler deserves more credit for how he navigates his career (10:27)
Where does Kevin Lee fit into all of this? (28:56)
Khamzat Chimaev's callout of Robert Whittaker and why Chael believes Chimaev needs to choose a persona and stick to it (39:00)
The latest installment of why Chael doesn't believe Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury will actually happen (43:58)
Official predictions for the UFC 284 co-main event between Josh Emmett and Yair Rodriguez (52:45), as well as the highly-anticipated main event between Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski (1:01:00)

And more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	One's happening guys, Happy Friday and thank you for joining.
0:11.3	Another special episode of your welcome guys, it's UFC284 Fight Week and I don't know
0:17.7	about the rest of you but I'm very excited for this.
0:20.1	Coming up on today's show, I'm going to tell you guys about the heat between Volganovsky
0:25.8	and Islam.
0:27.3	And I'm also going to give you my official predictions for the main event as well as
0:31.6	the Intramfetherweight title fight that nobody cares about.
0:34.4	Plus, I'm going to explain why Jake Paul needs to man up and I've also got some career
0:40.8	advice for Hosmet Chimayo.
0:43.1	I'll get to all that later but first, let's begin here.
0:51.6	Very good information.
0:53.2	Very good information came right from Dana White that says this fight when Volganovsky
0:59.8	and Islam will be, it's already trended where their confidence will be at top five of
1:06.3	all time but it could be number one.
1:11.4	It could outdo McGregor fights.
1:14.3	Make sure you understand on the one through ten list, it's all McGregor.
1:17.9	The biggest draw ever, the second biggest draw, the third biggest, I mean you understand
1:21.1	that one through ten are all counter fights.
1:24.1	Now, why is nobody asked how come?
1:33.0	I mean I haven't even seen that question out there.
1:37.0	Dana White himself told Jim Rome how big these numbers were.
1:43.8	Some I thought would have said, why do you think that is?
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