Underdog of the Year Candidate at UFC 296! Plus, Colby Covington Is Ready for Leon Edwards
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We've got a lot of top-notch MMA before the year ends and on today's episode, I cover some things we can expect to unfold in the coming weeks:
- Why I feel sorry for Ian Garry ahead of UFC 296 (00:00)
- Colby Covington's solid preparation for Leon Edwards (10:46)
- Islam Makhachev's determination to fight at 170 lbs. (19:55)
- The behind-the-scenes of the making of big fights in combat sports (28:35)
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| 0:00.0 | What you know about the animal kingdom of backing something dangerous into a corner with no way out? |
| 0:05.6 | You know what ends up happening and that's the spot they have put Tony Ferguson. What's happening guys? |
| 0:18.0 | Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome. |
| 0:24.8 | I gotta tell you on a human level I am beginning to feel for Ian Gary. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't really give a damn about the book, never did. |
| 0:32.1 | Don't really give a damn about the callouts and the back and forth never did |
| 0:36.7 | the pressure that he's under I don't like that word I don't find myself as a person that's speaking about it. |
| 0:43.0 | I know to personalize for my own career I never said I didn't feel pressure I felt so much |
| 0:46.6 | pressure I don't use that word it's not that it's not a real thing I just don't |
| 0:50.6 | find the topic interesting I've seen other sports announcers go on. It didn't matter if it was a team sport or combat one-on-one like this and they would always talk about pressure. Who was feeling the pressure? Who cares? In my opinion, maybe you care about it. I'm sharing with you. I don't. I expect you, right? If you're walking through and you're the big organization, you're taking up TV time and you're making all the money and this was your dream in the first place, I expect you to first off have pressure and second off be able to deal with the pressure. |
| 1:22.4 | I will even hear debates guys, which is like mind-numbingly painful for me, |
| 1:26.0 | but if you ever listen to sports guy, sports announcers, |
| 1:29.0 | then you're into mine-numbingly painful conversations. |
| 1:32.0 | It's the kind of thing that you would like if you're the kind of guy that likes that kind of a thing, |
| 1:36.0 | Jim Cornette. |
| 1:37.0 | Now, I will tell you this. |
| 1:39.0 | I've even seen debates amongst the greats about who has the most pressure and they will have it. |
| 1:44.6 | They will never say them. |
| 1:45.5 | Ever, ever, ever does the mean, I've got the pressure. |
| 1:49.7 | The hell's this guy got to lose. |
| 1:51.0 | He's a bum. |
| 1:51.5 | Nobody expects anything of him. I'll never hear that. They always make the argument that he has more pressure. Not that it doesn't exist and not that I don't have it on my shoulders, but he has more. |
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