UFC 294 Preview & an Impromptu Mike Perry Interview! Plus ... Was Volkanovski the Only Guy the UFC Called?

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Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this UFC 294 preview show, I get into the Kamaru Usman video, some animosity between Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski, and you'll also hear from Mike Perry, Kamaru Usman, and Khamzat Chimaev!

TOPICS:

Intro (00:00)
My impromptu interview with Mike Perry (00:55)
Jiri Prochazka's criticism of UFC 295 opponent Alex Pereira (08:46)
Why Magomed Ankalaev vs. Johnny Walker is a big mismatch (14:24)
Did Kamaru Usman actually hear something pop? (23:38)
My ESPN interview with Usman and Khamzat Chimaev (31:54)
Was Alexander Volkanovski really the first guy to receive the call? Or are we missing something? (41:35)
Some animosity between Volk and Islam Makhachev this week (51:14)

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0:00.0	I know you see two guys go out there and I know you've been told your whole life about confidence
0:03.5	and you believe these guys are confident and they got ice in their veins and nothing rattles them
0:07.6	The rule of that is true every fight you see both guys know going to fight who's gonna win
0:19.8	What's happening guys happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome
0:25.6	USC 294 is here everyone and on today's show. I'm gonna get it from every angle
0:32.6	We're gonna go with Charles Olivera pulling out like I told you he would all along to Kamora
0:38.9	Usman supposedly pop it his knee. I'm gonna get you the top three fights on the card and so much more guys later today
0:46.9	But let's begin with some big news coming out of their knuckle
0:55.7	Mike
0:57.4	Chlp
1:00.1	Chlp hey, buddy. I'm actually recording. I put hey, I gotta ask you a question though
1:05.9	Okay, uh, what weight class is this fight with Eddie?
1:10.0	75 it's uh
1:13.2	In boxing. It's uh, I think it's middleweight of boxing. Okay, but but 175 pounds is the weight class
1:20.2	Yes, you up until three days ago. We're getting ready to possibly fight Logan at I believe one eighty five
1:28.7	Was that weight class one ninety five? Okay, so what I mean where's your way down is is this a problem?
1:35.3	I went to Manchester. I was trying to weigh I was around like one ninety three to one ninety five
1:42.6	And then like two days of eating chicken salad and drinking water
1:47.1	I was 186 the morning of I was actually gonna go eat breakfast
1:52.2	Uh, to try to gain weight before I actually officially weighed in but then we tried to make the Idris Virgo fight
1:59.8	Uh, and so I went ahead and weighed in at 186
2:04.5	Okay, and
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