Alex Pereira 22 Pounds Overweight!? Plus, Justin Gaethje an Underdog Against Rafael Fiziev

You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On today’s episode, I dive into Alex Pereira coming into fight week 22 pounds overweight, and why I’d love to see him make the move to heavyweight after UFC 313. Then, Justin Gaethje is the betting underdog against Rafael Fiziev—does that surprise you? I also have no reason to believe Dustin Poirier will hang up the gloves any time soon based on the things he's saying recently. And with talks of Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall going nowhere, my sources tell me the UFC hasn't even offered Jones the fight. Then, I conclude by breaking down the revisionist history surrounding Ronda Rousey’s loss to Holly Holm, which Rousey's former coach is now labeling "a $4.5 million mistake." And finally, I pay tribute to a revolutionary in wrestling. To support this program, please leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or submit a rating on my Spotify page. CHAPTERS: Pereira 22 lbs overweight (00:00) Questioning Pereira (10:24) Gaethje vs. Fiziev 2 (20:19) Selling the Gaethje-Fiziev rematch (26:04) Dustin Poirier isn't done (30:45) Jones vs. Aspinall (36:10) Rousey's $4.5 million mistake (43:28) Buvaisar Saitiev (50:25) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.1	What's happening, guys?
0:38.6	Happy Tuesday.
0:39.9	And thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome.
0:43.7	It is UFC 313 pay-per-view week and coming up on today's episode.
0:48.8	I'm going to get into all of that.
0:51.0	Plus, I take a trip down memory lane and I tell you why Dustin
0:55.8	Porier is red hot right now all of that to come later let's start here
1:05.4	all right Pierre is in Las Vegas and he's 22 pounds overweight. Now, I can relate to that exact number. I remember
1:16.5	being in Las Vegas for a fight in the summertime, 22 pounds overweight. 22 pounds the day
1:24.7	before weigh-ins overweight.
1:34.1	And I remember quite literally the depression of seeing that scale,
1:36.8	seeing that number, knowing how much time was on the clock,
1:41.1	and knowing what I was going to have to put myself through to get there.
1:44.1	But that was private information.
1:45.7	Like,
1:49.0	Burt Watson made us get on the scale,
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