UFC 310 Official Predictions!

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Chael Sonnen

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On the eve of UFC 310, ol' Uncle Chael is here to weigh in on all the big fights of the final UFC pay-per-view of the year. On today's show, I discuss: Aljamain Sterling and Chris Weidman on the undercard (00:00) Anthony Smith vs. Dominick Reyes (12:07) Ciryl Gane vs. Alexander Volkov 2 (24:30) Shavkat Rakhmonov vs. Ian Machado Garry (33:12) Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Asakura (42:49) Special thanks to this episode’s sponsor: Draft Kings Sportsbook - Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app NOW. New Customers use code CHAEL to bet $5 and get $150 in bonus bets! Gambling problem? Call 1-800 Gambler. in West Virginia visit 1800gambler.netIn New York, call 877-8HOPENY or text HOPENY 467369. In Connecticut, help is available for problem gambling call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org. Please play responsibly. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort in Kansas. 21 & over age varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. Bonus bets expire 168 hours after issuance. Deposit and eligibility restrictions apply. See eligibility, terms, and responsible gaming resources at dkng.com/mma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's happening, guys? Happy Friday! And thank you for joining another special episode of
0:12.7	your welcome coming up on today's episode. I'm giving you my official predictions for all the big
0:17.9	fights on tomorrow's final UFC pay-per-view of the year.
0:21.6	But before we get to that, I want to talk about one of the other news items pertaining to UFC 310 that's caught my interest.
0:30.6	Let's begin there.
0:32.6	Do you think Sterling and Weidman, former teammates, former world champions, being on the undercard, is right?
0:41.9	Or should you have an attitude like Sterling's opponent that says, I get paid the same, I'll have eyeballs on me,
0:47.6	job's the same, put me wherever you want.
0:49.2	Right now, it's not as easy as you might think.
0:54.0	It's really not. First off, the undercard is wildly misunderstood.
0:58.8	I can remember back in the Fox days, and they're true still with the ESPN days, that the main event of the undercard, the main event, is the one that had more eyes the entire night.
1:12.5	Not everybody that was watching that switched over to the pay-per-view.
1:16.9	You understand that.
1:18.3	But there was also times we would go on Facebook.
1:22.2	The early prelims were playing on Facebook, and they would do crazy numbers.
1:27.6	They would do these really ridiculous numbers.
1:29.9	And it didn't matter.
1:32.6	You couldn't get supported.
1:34.0	It was looked at differently.
1:36.1	It was not sought after.
1:38.0	Nobody ever called for a main event prelim spot.
1:41.8	Nobody ever called for put me on Facebook. And the trickle up also was not
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