Why I LOVED Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua! And Is Merab Still the Fighter of the Year?
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening, guys? |
| 0:08.6 | Happy Tuesday. |
| 0:09.9 | And thank you for joining. |
| 0:11.4 | Another special episode of your welcome. |
| 0:15.9 | Jake Paul, Anthony Joshua. |
| 0:19.7 | Awesome. |
| 0:20.9 | It was awesome. And you want to know who I credit? |
| 0:23.6 | I credit Dana White. |
| 0:26.1 | TKO stepped into boxing. |
| 0:27.8 | They hosted Canello and Crawford. |
| 0:29.8 | And from a production standpoint, which in Dana White promotions, king, number one, is production, is how this is going to look for |
| 0:42.4 | our audience. How good can we make the athletes? How good can we make the brand? How good can we |
| 0:51.1 | make this experience look? That goes over some guys' heads. |
| 0:57.1 | I'll give you a fun fact, but Steve Jobs every day had lunch with the vice president of design. |
| 1:05.0 | He did not meet with the tech team. |
| 1:07.7 | He did not meet with the marketing and advertising team. |
| 1:09.9 | Every single day he had lunch with the head of design. He did not meet with the marketing and advertising team. Every single day he had lunch |
| 1:11.9 | with the head of design. He wanted Apple to look good. Elon Musk follows a very similar pattern. |
| 1:21.0 | So from that perspective, when Dana put on Crawford-Kinello, from a production standpoint, there was things that was different. |
| 1:30.0 | And it was incredible. It was spectacular. Okay, great. But once you raise the bar, and he was the bar, |
| 1:35.2 | that was the most beautiful boxing event ever put on. It is now not. Netflix came in, |
| 1:40.5 | they saw that, MVP, a lot of people get some credit for this, but they saw that and realized we got to raise that bar. And they did. Now, it all goes back into TKO's court. Great. But they nailed it. It was, it was beautiful. I don't use that word very often. I don't get to use that word very often. I didn't need it to be beautiful. I wasn't expecting it to be beautiful. |
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