UFC 289 Preview & Does Michael Chandler Know the Conor McGregor Fight Is Off?

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

One day before UFC 289 goes down in Vancouver, Chael discusses the following on today's episode:

How long it will take Michael Chandler to realize that his fight with Conor McGregor isn't going to happen (00:42)
The return of Chris Weidman and some words of caution Chael has for the former UFC middleweight champion (14:47)
Why Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush hasn't been labeled a No. 1 contender fight and what exactly is on the line for Oliveira in this fight (40:12)
The women's bantamweight division and why everyone in it is SCARED of Amanda Nunes (48:50)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's happening guys? Happy Friday! And thank you for joining.
0:11.1	Another special episode of you welcome guys. We're officially one day from UFC289 and coming
0:17.2	up on today's program. I'm going to preview the Vancouver card and the people's main event
0:23.0	between Derrouch and Charles Oliver Plus. What's going to happen if a man to noon is
0:29.6	loses to Eldana in good news. Chris Whiteman is back. Lots to get to one of the day show
0:36.2	everyone. Let's begin here.
0:42.2	Henry Sohudo. Triple C came out and he was talking about Chandler versus McGregor. Henry said
0:49.5	I could see the UFC skipping Chandler for Conor's next fight. He just isn't there yet.
0:56.7	He just isn't a big star talking about Chandler. I can't openly say that Henry is incorrect
1:07.5	that that fight isn't going to happen. But I would disagree. I don't have any feel or
1:14.4	sense that because of the opponent in this case, micro Chandler that there's a motivation
1:19.9	to find somebody else. I do believe it's Chandler or bust. I believe. I don't think they're going
1:27.7	to move him over here and find somebody else from McGregor. And I'm also not sure that Henry
1:33.7	is right about his statement about Michael Chandler, but there would be a perception of that
1:37.5	to a degree if you're doing this on the curve. If you want to tell me guys that can draw
1:44.5	in guys that are stars and that have big fan bases and the audience is going to recognize,
1:48.7	be invested in and care about. Chandler is as good as you're going to find unless you do it on
1:54.3	the curve, which is McGregor number one. Then everybody looks if that's your comparison, everybody.
2:03.6	Look small. So I like the topic though. I like the topic of Chandler versus McGregor. I had
2:14.1	a piece that I deemed to be very funny. I was going to call it Ask a Five-year-old. I had my
2:21.1	daughter, Priya, I was doing this on the handheld. I was asking her that I put the camera on her.
2:26.5	I was just simply asking her, is Chandler and McGregor going to fight? Does it feel as though
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