Ryan Garcia's $2 Million Bet Pays Off, and Michael Chandler vs. Conor McGregor Isn't Official...
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Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
No UFC this past weekend, but a bunch still happened in the combat sports world! Allow me to get into it on today's episode.* Here's what to expect:
- A hindsight look at Ryan Garcia's antics leading up to his fight with Devin Haney (00:00)
- Michael Chandler says his bout agreement with Conor McGregor hasn't been signed ... uh oh (09:58)
- Comparisons between Garcia and McGregor (18:02)
- Whether Max Holloway would put up the BMF belt against Ilia Topuria (27:43)
- My reaction to the U.S. Olympics wrestling trials (37:38)
*All time codes are approximate.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | The UFC was off this weekend, but man, we still had a lot going on in the combat sports world. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm going to get to all of that on today's episode. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm going to talk about the back and forth between Iliad Teporia and Max Holloway and |
| 0:29.5 | and what I make of all of it plus Michael Chandler says that his fight with Connor McGregor isn't officially signed yet? |
| 0:37.0 | Why did he say that? I'm gonna get to that folks, but let's begin by talking about the fight that everyone's eyes were on this |
| 0:45.9 | weekend. Ryan Garcia took out Devon H, what do you make of that? |
| 0:53.8 | I mean, what do you do with that? |
| 0:58.2 | Like, if you were a naysayer before this fight. |
| 1:02.7 | That was very bullish on the idea. |
| 1:04.9 | There was two schools the thought, by the way. |
| 1:06.3 | And you know what? |
| 1:07.6 | That doesn't mean there was only two schools. |
| 1:09.1 | Like, here was the narrative. |
| 1:10.8 | Either Ryan Garcia was trolling. |
| 1:13.7 | He was marketing, he was working, he was building media to bring attention, |
| 1:17.6 | or he had lost his mind. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, I gotta tell you, like a lot of times a lot of arguments a lot of discussions |
| 1:25.2 | there's only two ways to go I only submit for you right now there's a lot more options |
| 1:30.8 | than either he was a marketing master or he had lost his mind. There's lots of other |
| 1:35.2 | options, but if we're to operate on those two, which is where we were per the media, |
| 1:40.9 | before the fight started. The Commission should stop the fight started. |
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