UFC 288 Predictions, Francis Ngannou Latest, and Jon Jones Threatens Retirement

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Chael Sonnen

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4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Chael discusses:

The status of Francis Ngannou's free agency (00:50)
Jon Jones' statement that he's considering retirement after fighting Stipe Miocic later this year (16:38)
Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao settling scores (25:26)
UFC 288 official predictions for Belal Muhammad vs. Gilbert Burns (40:33) and Aljamain Sterling vs. Henry Cejudo (50:06)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode
0:12.6	of your welcome.
0:13.6	It is a loaded weekend in combat sports with Canelo Alvarez, boxing in Mexico, the US debut
0:21.2	of one championship and another huge cage warriors event and of course UFC 288.
0:29.2	I'm going to talk about 288 and I'm going to give you my official prediction plus,
0:35.6	Manny Pacquiao and Conor McGregor have finally come to terms but before we get to all
0:40.4	of that, I want to begin with all of the drama that's gone down with the UFC heavyweights
0:46.8	this week.
0:47.8	Alright, let's talk heavyweights.
0:51.4	You know what, as a matter of fact, let's just talk Francis.
0:54.4	Let's talk specifically Francis.
0:55.6	I had a very nice comment by somebody.
0:57.4	I read the comments.
0:59.1	Somebody said, Chale, single handedly has kept Francis relevant.
1:03.6	If it wasn't for Chale, I would have forgotten who Francis was and that's just a reality,
1:08.3	right?
1:09.3	I mean, when somebody retires, when somebody leaves the sport, I mean, it's stock drops
1:13.6	really, really fast.
1:15.2	And there's ways to measure that.
1:17.2	Merchandising would just be a great example.
1:19.0	But if somebody leaves the sport, they don't, their jerseys don't still sell.
1:23.5	There's just things and whether you left because you were hurt or you left because you weren't
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