Why the Stakes Are So High at UFC 291. Plus, Jon Jones’ STUPID Approach to the Stipe Fight!

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Right before heading off to Salt Lake City to cover UFC 291 for ESPN, Chael sits down to get into all of the latest MMA news, as well as this weekend's must-see card. On today's episode, he talks about:

Michael Bisping's high praise of Tom Aspinall and Chael's take on how the British star can get to the UFC heavyweight title (00:58)
Why the world's (supposedly) most dangerous man -- Jon Jones -- is a coward on social media (9:20)
The official booking of Paulo Costa vs. Khamzat Chimaev and why Chael thinks this could be one of the top fights of 2023 (18:33)
Whether Chael thinks we'll actually see a rematch between "retired" fighters Jorge Masvidal and Ben Askren (27:47)

Then, Chael spends the rest of the show talking about UFC 291 and why tomorrow night represents a do-or-die situation for several fighters on the card (33:25). Plus, official predictions for Jan Blachowicz vs. Alex Pereira (57:17) and Dustin Poirier vs. Justin Gaethje 2 (1:03:25).

And more!

Transcript

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0:00.0	They'll hear this and think well how could trail say that about us. We're sportsmen.
0:04.1	I'm helping you. You dumb sons of bitches. Nobody's talking about you and that includes you.
0:17.0	What's happening guys? Happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode of
0:22.1	you're welcome guys. We are just one day away from UFC 291 and coming up on today's show
0:27.6	I'm going to get into all the 291 drama plus the stuff that's been going under the radar.
0:33.4	I even want to tell you are you guys interested in Blahobot's versus Pierre because I know
0:37.9	that I am. Could this be Tony Ferguson's final fight and of course I'm going to give you my
0:43.1	official predictions before we get into everything related to Salt Lake. I want to tell you about
0:49.7	something I witnessed last Saturday in London. Michael Bispy, man, he said some beautiful things
1:01.2	about Thomas but he said he's going to be a champion of the world. He brought in John Jones.
1:06.0	Bispy put him over, said how great John Jones is and Michael really does believe that he believes
1:10.5	really great things about John Jones. I've had private conversations with him and heard that.
1:14.1	He acknowledged all of those things in the interview that I'm referencing. He said,
1:18.4	Tom is better. Says a matter of fact, Tom would do to John what he did over the weekend to
1:24.5	type where and what really I mean I was thinking he's going to walk him down. He's going to set him
1:29.8	up. He's going to throw one down the middle and he's going to knock him out like wow that is
1:33.2	tremendously high praise. Bispy does have a respect and a loyalty to fellow British fighters.
1:47.8	I've got to disclose that but even with that in mind this was easily the highest praise I've
1:54.3	ever heard Bispy give somebody that includes himself even when he's built built up himself it wasn't
2:02.3	as far as he went with Tom and I just I just want to take a closer look at it because I also see
2:06.8	something very special with Tom. I don't have very many faults. I didn't have a problem with Tom
2:14.0	the night that he lost occurred his blades. I thought he performed fairly well.
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