UFC 288 Reaction: Aljo Silences the Haters, Merab Takes Suga' Sean's Jacket, and Matt Frevola Stole My Line!
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After another massive weekend for combat sports, Chael discusses the following on today's episode:
- What we learned about Aljamain Sterling in Saturday night's close win over Henry Cejudo (00:42)
- Cejudo's callout of Merab Dvalishvili and when we might see Sterling vs. Sean O'Malley (10:01)
- What really happened between Gilbert Burns and Belal Muhammad at UFC 288 and why it deserves your attention (16:56)
- Matt Frevola's homage to Chael and whether he thinks Paddy Pimblett will accept Frevola's callout (37:50)
Plus, Chael talks about the welterweight title picture and the latest with Khamzat Chimaev.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode |
| 0:13.0 | of your welcome guys. What a weekend it was in combat sports. It was the US debut for |
| 0:18.0 | one championship over in Colorado. We saw Canelo Alba Resonite admit that fight was over |
| 0:23.5 | in Mexico. But then of course we come back to New Jersey for UFC 288. I want to do a |
| 0:29.1 | deep dive into the pay-per-view card. I want to talk about the last two fights of the evening |
| 0:34.6 | and all the storylines coming out of Saturday night. No time to waste. Let's get to it. |
| 0:42.0 | Keishel LaPilly took Sugashan's jacket. It was one of the great spots of the night. And what are |
| 0:52.8 | you going to do? And what are you going to do? What would you do if Deesh LaPilly took your jacket? |
| 0:58.7 | That's probably now his jacket right? Well sure. But you're not Sugashan. Okay. Let's say you are |
| 1:07.0 | Sugashan and Deesh LaPilly took your jacket. Now to make things worse you don't have a shirt on |
| 1:11.6 | underneath which means either gives you your coat back or you got to whatever it is you have to go |
| 1:15.5 | next. You think it's going to be dinner? You're going to go hit this pizza spot on the court. |
| 1:19.6 | Maybe you're just going to go back to the hotel. You're going to go and have a shirt on. You are |
| 1:23.4 | now a fool. That can't happen. But what if when Deesh LaPilly takes your jacket and your Sugashan |
| 1:32.8 | and you want it back? What if him and five of his friends who also are five of the baddest |
| 1:42.2 | dudes around are all together and you're by yourself? Sugashan had to get that coat back. |
| 1:49.5 | That's his coat. We don't know the history behind it. Maybe his grandmother gave it to him and |
| 1:55.6 | she passed away. I mean, by example, we don't know what value, what that had. But Sean was not |
| 2:02.4 | happy. And he also wasn't happy that in his moment the guy who many argue is the number one |
| 2:11.3 | contender, right? I mean that is believed. Sean is right number one. But many believe that |
| 2:15.1 | Deesh LaPilly would be fighting for a championship. It was not for his loyalty towards the friendship, |
| 2:22.0 | towards Aljou. Many believe that. So now Sugashan in his moment that he flew across country. |
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