UFC 285 Preview: Chubby Jon Jones, Bo Nickal's Debut, and Official Predictions!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The big moment is FINALLY here! Jon Jones is fighting for the first time in three years and on today's show, Chael is here to break down UFC 285 and all of its story lines, discussing:

Jon Jones' weight gain and how it will affect his performance tomorrow night against Ciryl Gane (00:44)
Gane's path to victory (11:44)
Why Chael has "had it" with Francis Ngannou (31:05)
The significance of Sergei Pavlovich serving as the backup fighter for the heavyweight title fight (37:55)
Bo Nickal's long-awaited UFC debut in the first fight of the UFC 285 main card (47:21)
Chael's official prediction for Jones vs. Gane (55:25)

And much, much more!

Thanks to this episode’s sponsor: RocketMoney.com/Chael

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, happy Friday!
0:09.8	Thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome.
0:12.8	Well guys, I've been talking your ears off about John Jones and when he might come back.
0:18.9	And the moment is finally here!
0:20.9	UFC 285 is upon us and coming up on today's program.
0:24.9	I'll talk about the main event and all its storylines, the heavyweight division and everything
0:30.9	else that is going on in one of the most loaded cards in recent memory.
0:36.3	Lots to get to.
0:37.6	Let's waste no time and get into it here.
0:40.8	We got to jumpy John Jones.
0:45.1	What do you make of it?
0:46.1	Now, what do you make of it and what did you expect?
0:50.4	That's a little bit of an interesting question because I was expecting a shredded John Jones
0:55.4	that would speak to the vanity of John Jones.
0:59.0	And I would come out and I would talk to you guys about this as though that was negative
1:02.8	while keeping my own secret inside, which is, if I was to put myself in John's shoes,
1:08.6	which is the most golden rule of life, I would definitely want to look good when I took
1:13.0	my shirt off at my new weight class.
1:15.8	So predicting that John Jones was going to look pretty shredded, he was going to look
1:21.1	like Steve Bay on his way to looking like Francis, something along these lines.
1:25.0	More than he looks like his brother's Arthur and Chandler, that would have been a reasonable
1:28.9	guess because it's what I would have wanted to do.
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