Are We Getting Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall Next? Plus, Steve Erceg's UFC 301 Performance
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
I'm back from ESPN headquarters, and I've got some things to say about UFC 301! On today's episode, I'm gonna tell you how Steve Erceg, even in a loss, was the most impressive fighter at UFC 301. Plus, I'll tell you why Anthony Smith inspires me, where Jose Aldo fits into the UFC bantamweight title picture, and what I'm hearing about Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall possibly fighting each other in July. And apparently Charles Oliveira wants to be the backup fighter for UFC 303?
The following time codes are approximate:
- Steve Erceg's UFC 301 performance (00:00)
- Anthony Smith does the unexpected again (07:25)
- Cory Sandhagen vs. Umar Nurmagomedov is official (13:00)
- I'm loving Jon Jones' approach to fighting right now (21:35)
- Charles Oliveira's list of demands (30:10)
- Why does no one care about Ryan Garcia and VADA? (34:58)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome. |
| 0:13.6 | UFC 301 has come and gone and I am already looking ahead to some potential fights that |
| 0:20.0 | we might see in the coming months. |
| 0:22.4 | Do John Jones and Tom Aspinall already have a deal in place? |
| 0:26.4 | I'm going to get to that plus Charles Olivera wants to be the backup fighter for Chandler |
| 0:31.2 | versus McGregor. Wow, I'd like to too Charles. Can't |
| 0:34.6 | wait to hear your ideas on that. Another great show begins right now |
| 0:39.0 | everybody and I want to start with this. |
| 0:47.0 | I like fighter of the night. And we don't do that. |
| 0:49.0 | We do fight of the night. |
| 0:51.0 | And the reason I bring that to you, let me give you a great example, which would be UFC 3. of the single best |
| 0:57.0 | single best performance the single best performance the single athlete that rose to the occasion |
| 1:01.2 | exceeded expectations, |
| 1:03.7 | and did it in an absolute dominant fashion |
| 1:05.8 | was Kayla Harrison. |
| 1:07.4 | But there was no bonus there, there was not even any talk |
| 1:09.9 | after that fight. |
| 1:11.0 | I mean, even a man in Nunez trying to get a rumbling going, it died in its tracks just because it was surrounded by other great fights and it sucked all the air out of the room. And I tell you that because in this sport, we don't do great fight, |
| 1:25.0 | we do great fight. |
| 1:26.4 | So regardless of how well you performed, |
| 1:30.8 | to be recognized by that litmus test your opponent needs to be very equal in form and why do I tell you that well |
| 1:40.7 | Because I have Steve Ursrikk, that's why. |
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