UFC 287 Preview: The Final Chapter of Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya and It’s Do or Die for Jorge Masvidal

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Chael Sonnen

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

UFC 287 is here! Ahead of another massive fight between middleweight champion Alex Pereira and former champ Israel Adesanya, Chael talks about the following on today's episode:

Chael's headline-grabbing comments this week about Francis Ngannou's next move (00:43)
The massive stakes no one is talking about in Saturday's fight between Gilbert Burns and Jorge Masvidal (10:42)
Masvidal's skirmish with Kevin Holland this week and how it actually benefits Khamzat Chimaev (20:12)
Chael's official prediction for Pereira-Adesanya 2 (45:38)

And much more!

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, Happy Friday!
0:09.6	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome guys, UFC 287 and the
0:15.2	rematch between Pierre Routh and Otis Sonia is here coming up on a day show.
0:20.6	I'm going to give you my official prediction for that fight.
0:23.6	I'm also going to speculate on what happens at middleweight beyond Saturday night.
0:28.7	Plus, Kevin Holland gets into another squirmish and could this be the last time we ever
0:35.1	see George Moss but all?
0:36.8	Lots to get into today guys, let's begin with this.
0:39.5	I made some headlines guys, I was out at Bear Knuckle.
0:46.0	I was doing their press conference yesterday in Las Vegas.
0:49.6	Gorgeous George, he comes in the back, he's got a camera, does an interview with me.
0:54.0	Francis's name came up.
0:56.0	I had to say about Francis made it over to a headline at BJPen.com.
1:00.5	Saw the article today and I only say that because you say a lot of things.
1:04.8	Somebody picked it up, somebody thought it was interesting enough.
1:06.9	But not only did Gorgeous George go with it but then BJPen.com linked to it and put it
1:10.9	on their own site.
1:11.9	I didn't think what I was saying was all that compelling.
1:14.0	I was just saying that I think that Francis, through the learning lesson, right?
1:19.6	I mean, something in life you try to guess their experiments and you form what's called
1:24.0	a hypothesis which is an explanation based on evidence.
1:29.3	It's not factual yet but you do have some evidence that kind of steers you.
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