UFC 295 Reaction: Alex Pereira Is the 2023 Fighter of the Year + Tom Aspinall's WORST Performance So Far!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Back from New York City after covering UFC 295 for ESPN, I get into the following on today's podcast:

Alex Pereira's incredible UFC run and why I think he's the 2023 FOTY (00:00)
Why I have zero interest in Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya ever again (13:26)
How Tom Aspinall just made the heavyweight division very interesting (23:36)
How Aspinall shut down Sergei Pavlovich and Ciryl Gane on the same night (33:22)
Why I hate that Tony Ferguson is training with fitness guru David Goggins ahead of UFC 296 (44:36)

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0:00.0	Now I happen to know about Elsa.
0:02.3	She's from a movie called Frozen,
0:05.4	and she stings the lead song, Let It Go.
0:08.8	I know that because Halloween was a week ago
0:11.2	and my daughter was Elsa.
0:13.0	Elsa.
0:14.0	What's happened?
0:15.0	What's happening,
0:18.0	what's happening guys
0:22.0	happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode of your
0:26.4	welcome guys. I was in New York City for USC 295 and what a night it was from
0:32.2	first round finishes.
0:33.7	There was some great walkouts.
0:35.4	There was some great stare downs.
0:37.1	I even liked a call out or two.
0:39.4	This card had it all in coming up on today's show I'm going to have even more because I'm going to spend some time talking about what's next for Tom Asimov. I'm also going to get into Tony Ferguson training with David Goggins and I'm going to tell you what I like about it, but also
0:56.0	what's bothering me. Lots to get into. Let's begin here.
0:59.4	Alex Pierre is your fighter in the year. I hope that he wins that award and I don't know that he will.
1:09.0	The World MMA Awards started taking ballots a meaningful amount of time ago.
1:14.0	They're probably about to close.
1:16.0	I can't in good conscience tell you that I remember
1:19.0	Pierre being nominated.
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