Volk Remains No. 1, Bo Nickal Praises Whittaker, and My Early Thoughts on UFC 285

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Chael discusses:

Why the UFC rankings committee deserves props for keeping Alexander Volkanovski as the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter (00:37)
Where we currently stand on making a rematch between Volkanovski and Islam Makhachev (13:24)
A breakdown of the UFC 285 main event between Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane (22:33)
What's the WHY in the rematch between Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya in April (29:17)
Bo Nickal's nod to the greatness of Robert Whittaker (39:00)

And more!

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0:00.0	What's happening guys, Happy Friday!
0:09.8	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome, coming up on today's
0:14.2	show.
0:15.2	I got a big question for you all regarding the rematch between Otisanya and Pierrea as well
0:19.6	as an upcoming fight between Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler Plus.
0:23.5	I'm going to discuss whether we should be doing a rematch between Volganovsky and Markl
0:28.7	Cheb.
0:29.7	But before we get to all of that guys, the Rankings Committee has spoken.
0:34.3	Alright, there is so much going on.
0:39.7	In the wake up, Islam versus Volganovsky.
0:43.6	I mean, in so many movie parts, I love it.
0:46.6	I love it all.
0:47.6	This is a great time to be an MMA fan again, but let's just try to impact this, okay?
0:52.2	The bill up to the fight.
0:53.2	The fact that it was made organically.
0:54.6	The fact that it gets stuck in Perth, which is not known for fights.
0:57.3	The fact that it's going to be a paper view with no supporting cast all the way to Josh
1:01.0	Emmett and Yaya Rodriguez.
1:02.8	But then you start hearing other numbers.
1:05.4	You find out that if you'd like to watch it, don't plan on watching it live in Perth,
1:09.2	there's no tickets left.
1:11.2	And then you get other numbers such as Dana White coming out and saying it is trending
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