Why Alex Volkanovski Will Beat Ilia Topuria at UFC 298, Henry Cejudo Weighs Retirement (Again), and Dana White to Announce UFC 300 Main Event
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
I'm off to Anaheim for UFC 298, but Uncle Chael is still here to deliver a packed edition of the program. Here's what's coming up:*
- Why every UFC champion not named Alex Pereira is stupid (00:00)
- If Dana White actually announces the UFC 300 main event Saturday night, I'll be VERY impressed (10:03)
- Dana White walking off Howie Mandel's podcast set and why I think it was legit (19:29)
- How Sean Strickland vs. Ian Garry can become a reality (30:57)
- My official prediction for Ian Garry vs. Geoff Neal (39:55)
- Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa aren't calling for title shots...why not? (49:20)
- What to make of this week's drama between Henry Cejudo and Captain Eric (57:42)
- Cejudo's assertion that he'll retire with a loss to Merab Dvalishvili (01:07:07)
- My official prediction for Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria (01:16:25)
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys? |
| 0:07.5 | What's happening guys? Happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome. |
| 0:13.2 | You know, guys, I'm just a few hours |
| 0:15.3 | from boarding to Anaheim to cover UFC 298 |
| 0:18.7 | this weekend for E-SPN. |
| 0:20.1 | But of course, Uncle Chale is going to sit here and deliver for you first. |
| 0:26.0 | Coming up on today's episode, Dana White walked off the set of a podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | Was it legit? |
| 0:31.4 | Plus Henry Zahuto says he will retire with a loss on Saturday night. |
| 0:36.4 | Is that legit? |
| 0:37.4 | And of course I'm going to give you some official predictions for Saturday night as well. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a packed show guys. Let's get into it. |
| 0:48.5 | So I get a phone call. It's my manager. He says, hey, Chail just heard from the United States Anti-Doping Agency, and they found this, this, and this in your system. |
| 0:56.5 | My manager then goes quiet. I'm also remaining quiet because I'm thinking, are you done? |
| 1:00.8 | Turned out he was. They just had those three things, |
| 1:02.8 | but either way, my career |
| 1:05.6 | was gonna be spent a few minutes |
| 1:07.4 | outside of the principal's office. |
| 1:08.9 | Now, roughly a month later, |
| 1:13.2 | I'm at a casino at the win |
| 1:16.8 | waiting for my room to be ready, |
| 1:19.4 | sitting at a slot machine |
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