UFC Wants Leon Edwards vs. Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 300! And Was Jon Jones Really Offered the Main Event?

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Chael Sonnen

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The UFC 300 main event speculation is FASCINATING! And on today's episode, I'm gonna do even more of it. Here's what's coming up:

Ariel Helwani's report that UFC wants to book Leon Edwards and Khamzat Chimaev for UFC 300 (00:00)
Jon Jones says he turned down the offer to headline UFC 300...do we believe that? (10:39)
Coach Eugene Bareman reveals why Israel Adesanya performed so poorly in the Sean Strickland fight (20:33)
Why a loss to Ilia Topuria at UFC 298 could be beneficial to Alex Volkanovski (30:15)
I've got a problem with the way WWE is bringing The Rock back into the mix (41:56)

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0:00.0	What's happening guys?
0:07.0	happening guys! Happy Tuesday!
0:09.0	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome guys the rumor mill surrounding
0:15.8	UFC 300 it keeps ongoing right here on this episode today.
0:21.2	I'm going to get into John Jones's comment. He claims that he was asked to fight in the main event, but he's a little light on the other details. Plus,
0:30.0	Ottosanias Coach has spoken up about Izzy's lackluster performance when he dropped the strap
0:35.6	to Sean Strickland.
0:37.2	I also got some thoughts on Volkinovsky.
0:39.7	He's damn near the underdog coming against Teporia we got all sorts of stuff to get to
0:45.0	guys let's begin here.
0:50.9	Ariel Hellwani has just stated on the MMA hour which lasts more than 60 minutes.
1:00.0	Play with that one.
1:01.0	While you're thinking about that? Think about this.
1:03.0	He claims that the number one fight the UFC would like for 300 is Leon Edwards versus Chameyev. Now, for Ariel to say it, it would have been checked,
1:20.8	confirmed and reconfirmed.
1:26.0	Make sure you understand what he's saying.
1:28.0	So I'm going to repeat the quote.
1:31.0	The number one fight the U.S.C. would like to have right now for U.S.C. 300 is a title fight
1:38.4	between Chamayev and Leon Edwards. Now the reason I just want to make sure that you understand
1:44.4	each one of those words matter is this is moving. So two weeks ago, just by
1:50.6	example, when Dana kind of looked like, you know know might let the cat out of the bag and people
1:54.6	were trying to pull it out of him he's going to hold on to this information a little bit longer.
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